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Regulate or Be Regulated: The Institutional Entrepreneurship of Developers

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Zoning is one of the key roles of land use regulation by the state. In engaging with this land use regulation, developers do not stay put and passively await rules to be imposed upon them. Instead, they proactively seek to (co)produce new rules or change existing rules to their advantage: they are ‘institutional entrepreneurs.’ We analyze how institutional entrepreneurship strategies play out empirically in Rijnenburg, a large greenfield site located southeast of the city of Utrecht. We find a complex and reciprocal interrelationship between planning decisions on the one hand and strategies of developers on the other.

Source: Planning Theory & Practice

DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2025.2456865

Authors: Edwin Buitelaar, Jasper Lebbing, Peter Pelzer, Martijn van den Hurk, Lilian van Karnenbeek

Institution: Utrecht University

Language: English

Topic: Urban Planning and Governance

Subfield: Urban Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Universiteit Utrecht