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The Urban West and the Rural Rest: Framing in Dutch Regional Planning in the 1950s

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: This paper draws on the case of Dutch regional planning in the 1950s to investigate how ‘urban space’ and ‘rural space’ have traditionally been perceived as opposing concepts. During this decade, politicians, planners and policy-makers constructed an image of an overdeveloped, urban, industrial centre on the one hand, and an underdeveloped, rural, agricultural periphery on the other. Rooted in a debate about the ‘harmonious’ development of the Netherlands, this image made a substantial contribution to the schematic understanding of urban and rural space. Examining this frame as an historical construct helps to reveal the anachronistic character of many of the urban-rural differentiations that are made today.

Source: Landscape Research

DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2012.687444

Author: Marijn Molema

Institution: Wageningen University & Research

Language: English

Topic: Urban Planning and Governance

Subfield: Urban Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: green

Funders: Universiteit van Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam