Unlike in France, say, policy designed to create an economically competitive land-use structure at the national level has long played a prominent role in the Netherlands. Initiatives in this respect include the government's 1960 Planning Memorandum and the fourth Memorandum on Land Use in the Netherlands of 1988. However, the development of policy in this area at the national level has always been overshadowed by the priority given to urbanization in national land-use policy.
The research will belooked from two perspectives:
- Content of the national primary economic land-use structure
- Opportunities for incorporating alternative visions of the national primary economic land-use structure into planning policy |
