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PLANNING LANDSCAPE OPENING UP THE BEITSKE BOONSTRA PETER DAVIDS ANNELIES STAESSEN Over the past 15 years, the actor-relational approach of planning grew and evolved from an interactive system between leading actors, factors of importance within evolving institutional OPENING UP settings to a co-evolutionary perspective on spatial planning. The various actor-relational and complexity-sensitive research and applications in the Flemish and Dutch landscape and THE PLANNING beyond collected in this book demonstrate how this actor- relational approach of planning is not a fixed methodology but rather an attitude which (co-)evolves depending on specific the Netherlands and Beyond to Spatial Planning in Flanders, 15 years of Actor-relational Approaches LANDSCAPE themes, insights and surroundings. Therewith, the book forms a showcase of the wide applicability of the actor-relational approach in enduring or deadlocked planning processes. The combination of scientific exposés, column-like retrospective intermezzos and concise boxes is structured according to the main 15 years of Actor-relational Approaches ingredients of the approach: actors, relations and approaches. to Spatial Planning in Flanders, The book offers an exploration of the consistencies in its (theore- tical) insights, addresses future challenges in actor-relational and the Netherlands and Beyond complexity-sensitive planning research and discusses its potential for future planning in the Eurodelta region and beyond. ANNELIES STAESSEN PETER DAVIDS BEITSKE BOONSTRA OPENING UP THE PLANNING LANDSCAPE 15 years of Actor-relational Approaches to Spatial Planning in Flanders, the Netherlands and Beyond BEITSKE BOONSTRA PETER DAVIDS ANNELIES STAESSEN 1 Opening up the Planning Landscape CONTENT 15 years of Actor-relational Approaches to Spatial Planning in Flanders, the Netherlands and Beyond Published by Coöperation In Planning UA PREFACE © Ghent (B)/Groningen (NL), 2020 Beitske Boonstra, Peter Davids & Annelies Staessen 7 www.inplanning.eu INTRODUCTION Opening up New Planning Landscapes – An introduction in the ISBN actor-relational approach of planning | Luuk Boelens 11 978-94-91937-44-6 Planning the Low Countries – Understanding the similarities Editors within dissimilarities | Luuk Boelens & Ann Pisman 37 Beitske Boonstra Peter Davids Annelies Staessen ACTOR Graphic Design www.inontwerp.nl Struggling with climate change – Dealing with a complex adaptive system | Luuk Boelens 71 This publication was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Center for mobility and spatial planning (AMRP) Flood justice in Flanders | Tom Goosse 87 at Ghent University. Collecting Historic Flood Data in Data-sparse Areas – A Citizen Approach | Hanne Glas & Greet Deruyter 103 Flood label: a new instrument to involve homeowners in flood risk management | Peter Davids 113 Published by InPlanning Spatial planning in an age of active citizenship – Toward the Oude Kijk in ’t Jatstraat 6, 9712 EG Groningen, The Netherlands art of creating consistency | Beitske Boonstra 123 [email protected] www.inplanning.eu “My data are better than yours” How environmental health experts have become new planning actors | Thomas Verbeek 137 InPlanning is legally registered as cooperative under KvK 58997121 This work is intellectual property and subject to copyright. All rights The spatial planner as a mediator, or as an actor? 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Violations are liable to prosecution under Dutch Law. 2 OPENING UP THE PLANNING LANDSCAPE 3 Transport Poverty scrutinized by Mobility Thresholds APPROACH | Rob Van der Bijl 159 A difficult process towards cross-sectoral environmental policy INTERMEZZO in Flanders | Ann Pisman 279 About tunnels and bridges, a column on tunnel vision and building bridges | Filip Boelaert 173 The actor relational approach in Flanders: meeting the practice of political service | Tristan Claus & Beitske Boonstra 291 Planning for Flood Resilience – Reflections on a co-evolutionary RELATIONAL approach in practice | Barbara Tempels, Peter Davids & Tom Goosse 301 FlugHafenCity Hamburg – Adaptation of the urban fabric between Anticipating culturally resilient transformation in Mariënburg, the city and airport towards urban growth | Rainer Johann 185 Suriname | Marleen Goethals, Johan De Walsche, Sigrid Heirman & Marciano Dasai 311 The Adaptive Airport – Resilient futures for Amsterdam Airport Schiphol | Bart De Jong 195 Cinematic Spaces of the Horizontal Metropolis | Annelies Staessen 331 Ports and Cities – A tense but evolving relationship | Luuk Boelens 205 Opening up heritage – Beyond a conceptualization as object or process | Karim van Knippenberg 343 Application of actor-relational approach in transport-land use interaction Muhammad | Muhammad Aamir Basheer 215 INTERMEZZO Actor-relational planning education - Moving toward a flat Emerging Regional Assemblages– Exploring the co-functioning educational program for horizontal metropolitan challenges process of emerging regions and formal planning | Alda Alagic 225 | Luuk Boelens, Geert Haentjens & Tara Op de Beeck 353 The concept of a housing market arena | Isabelle Loris 235 EPILOGUE Actors in the creative transformation of an insdustrial area in After ARA – Critical Reflections and a Reflexive Beyond Gongshu, Hangzhou | Jiajia Gong 255 | Beitske Boonstra, Luuk Boelens, Annelies Staessen & Peter Davids 367 INTERMEZZO BIOGRAPHY AUTHORS 381 Telling (Promising) Stories – Observations on the Rise and Fall of the Mobiscore in Flanders | Suzanne Van Brussel 265 LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES 386 4 OPENING UP THE PLANNING LANDSCAPE 5 BEITSKE BOONSTRA, PETER DAVIDS & ANNELIES STAESSEN PREFACE BEITSKE BOONSTRA, PETER DAVIDS & ANNELIES STAESSEN The research topics at the Centre of mobility and spatial planning (AMRP) at Ghent University show great variety. However, what binds the team at AMRP together are the principles of actor-relational governance and complexity sensitive research. These principles have proven to be a powerful tool to open up the planning landscape for new actors, new relations, and new approaches. These attempts to open the planning landscape up by employing these principles have not been limited to this AMRP group. Over the past 15 years, a group of researchers conducted project-related and theoretical work on a wide variety of spatial planning issues within Flanders, the Netherlands, and beyond. This book brings this rich body of research together, explores the con- sistencies in its insights, addresses future challenges in actor-relational and complexity-sensitive planning research, and discusses its potential for future planning in the Eurodelta region. The aim of the book is twofold: first, the book functions as exposure to the current legacy of the actor-relational approach. In this ‘showcase’ you will find applications of the approach related to climate change, housing markets, public transport, urban regeneration heritage, and so on. Second, the book functions as a springboard for actor-relational and complexity-sensitive research planning and practice in the future. With the compilation of texts in this book, we as editors did not aim to be com- prehensive. Instead, the objective was to provide a wide range of perspectives that would be inspirational for planners, urbanists, theorists, students, stake- holders, etc. Therefore, the structure of the book is organized thematically, according to the main ingredients of the approach—namely actors, relations, and approaches. This thematic ordering clarifies the coherence but equally allows the reader to move in a non-linear way through the book. Moreover, there are boxes accompanying several texts which provide a ‘taster’ of the con- tribution and offer short in-depth elaborations of the specific topic by highlight- ing examples, methods or remarkable results. Next to the main corpus of texts, an article on the planning context and two more reflective essays supplement the three chapters (actor, relation, approach) as intermezzos. 6 OPENING UP THE PLANNING LANDSCAPE 7 PREFACE BEITSKE BOONSTRA, PETER DAVIDS & ANNELIES STAESSEN The introduction chapter contains a theoretical and a contextual introduc- tions in these chapters elaborate on the entangled complexity and interdepen- tion. The theoretical section discusses the main features of the actor-relational dencies of various spatial systems. An intermezzo reflects on how to translate approach, as a way to open planning practices for new actors, new focal points, these stories into everyday language. new business models, new governance models for spatial developments. The chapter argues how the actor-relational approach helps planning systems in The chapters in Part 3 (Approach) discuss new methods for planners with Flanders, the Netherlands, and perhaps even planning systems in general, methods that are based on notions such as self-organization, co-evolution, to reach beyond their own defaults and path-dependencies and open up for and actor-networks. Methods typically include Living Labs. This part of the complexity and dynamics in a world of undefined becoming. This chapter book also reflects on (Flemish) planning instruments,