Heurkens, E W T M (2012) Private sector-led urban development projects: Management, partnerships and effects in the Netherlands and the UK. PhD thesis, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.
Abstract
Subject of study is Private Sector-led Urban Development Projects. Such projects involve property developers taking a leading role and local authorities adopting a facilitating role in the management of the development of an urban area, based on a framework of public requirements and a formal contractual public-private role division. Such a development strategy is quite common in Anglo-Saxon urban development practices but is less known in Continental European practices. Nonetheless, since the beginning of the millennium such a development strategy also occurred in the Netherlands in the form of 'concessions'. However, remarkably little empirical knowledge is available about how public and private actors collaborate on and manage such projects and what the effects of their actions are. This dissertation provides a conceptual and empirical understanding of the various characteristics of private sector-led urban development projects by conducting empirical case study research in the Dutch and UK planning context. Important conclusions are that private sector-led urban development requires various complementary types of public-private management, and additional informal forms of public-private collaboration besides the formal contractual role division, and results in positive effects in terms of effectiveness and spatial quality. Besides this the research contains specific organisational and managerial recommendations for practice and science. Private sector-led urban development is a promising development strategy for spatial projects in the Netherlands at a time in which governments focus their attention towards facilitating private sector initiatives and investments in the city.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Thesis advisor: | De Jonge, H |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | urban development; public-private partnerships; real estate; spatial planning; project management; netherlands; united kingdom |
| Index terms: | urban development, effectiveness, real estate, project management, dissertation, case study, spatial planning, private sector, partnership, collaboration, urban area, local authority, strategy, United Kingdom, science, Netherlands |
| Subjects: | specialized education, research dissemination and communication, urban design, Geography, urban form and morphology, data collection methods, real estate economics, project management theory and practice, performance management, management, industry analysis, sociology, partnership management |
| Topics: | Education, Quality Management, Project Management, Geographical Context, Organizational Design, Design Practice, Urban Studies, Stakeholder Management, Business Strategy, Research Practice |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCE |
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