eprintid: 4036
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datestamp: 2022-09-09 12:50:50
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Zeewijk Vink, Thomas, van
creators_id: S4109744
creators_email: thomasvanzeewijk@gmail.com
title: Blueprint planning in neighbourhood renewal: making participation work
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: In the contemporary planning debate, the focus is on participation and planning without plans. Also in practice, the art of making great spatial visions seems to have been lost. Instead, the focus is on communicative, bottomup processes. Blueprints – a strategic spatial vision of an area that shows what could be – are nowadays easily discarded as being not democratic enough or too top-down. The time has come to rediscover blueprints, which are often misunderstood, and further explore ‘participation’ and ‘bottom-up’ vs. ‘top-down’, which are concepts without clear definition.  Blueprints have been used for new residential areas before. Nowadays, the biggest challenges in planning lie within existing neighbourhoods. This research explores what the added value can be of making a blueprint in a neighbourhood renewal process. Especially those processes now often rely on participation, which has led to a situation in which no one takes responsibility. This has a risk of long-lasting, repetitive discussions and also raises concerns about the democratic value of the outcomes. Six professionals, active in neighbourhood renewal in Nationaal Programma Rotterdam Zuid or BospolderTussendijken, have been interviewed. It turns out that many professionals would be helped with a blueprint, because it provides clarity to all stakeholders and speeds up the process. Although a blueprint could also propose radical changes to a neighbourhood, this is deemed unwanted, as residents are attached to the way their neighbourhoods look. Blueprints can inspire and give clarity on the general direction, but a lot is still to be discussed in a collaborative way.
date: 2022
pages: 47
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: EIP
tutors_name: Dijk, T. van
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Planologie
tutors_email: T.van.Dijk@rug.nl
security: public
keywords_local: Blueprint
keywords_local: participation
keywords_local: Neighbourhood renewal
keywords_local: bottom-up
keywords_local: Top-down
keywords_local: strategic spatial plan
keywords_local: Multiple streams framework
language_iso: en
date_issued: 2022-09-07
citation:   Zeewijk Vink, Thomas, van  (2022) Blueprint planning in neighbourhood renewal: making participation work.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4036/1/Thomas%20van%20Zeewijk%20Vink%20Vink_S4108744_Master%20Thesis%20EIP.pdf