Mixed Use by Default

Hirt, Sonia

doi:10.1177/0885412212451029

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“…Law scholars have shown that their preferential use varies according to the country [6]. Depending on local property rights and land-use regulations, the same tool (e.g., zoning) may be used for different planning practices in the United States and Europe [7].…”

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Preserving Farmland on the Urban Fringe: A Literature Review on Land Policies in Developed Countries

Perrin

Clément

Melot

et al. 2020

Land

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This paper reviews the recent literature dealing with farmland protection (FP) policies in developed countries from a planning perspective, with a specific focus on the Mediterranean region. It provides coverage of French language papers that may have been omitted in previous reviews. While the Mediterranean is often pointed out as a region with acute challenges related to food security and a lack of effective planning policies, the literature underlines that issues related to FP policies are similar across the world. Hence, this review may bring valuable insights for more sustainable management of farmland on the urban fringe. It maps several interesting areas of research concerning the often implicit and disparate rationales of FP policies as well as the barriers and potential avenues for improvement for FP. It highlights that FP cannot rely merely on transferring policy tools that have proven successful elsewhere. It also reveals that land policies do not always take into account the specific needs of farming systems, as they often focus on land rather than on agriculture. Further research is thus needed to reveal the interaction over time between the use of certain FP tools and the unique local features of urban fringe agriculture. This review may be of interest to students and scholars, but also to practitioners, policy makers and local groups looking for innovative, more flexible or locally suited farmland protection programs.

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Preserving Farmland on the Urban Fringe: A Literature Review on Land Policies in Developed Countries

Perrin

Clément

Melot

et al. 2020

Land

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“…German local governments have the power to regulate the use of land within its borders. The German land-use regulation system rests on the principle of functional zoning and-in its basic mechanism-resembles other systems such as land zoning in the United States (e.g., Hirt 2012). The municipalities develop plans of land usage in which they legally dedicate land to specific purposes (Hirt 2012).…”

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“…The German land-use regulation system rests on the principle of functional zoning and-in its basic mechanism-resembles other systems such as land zoning in the United States (e.g., Hirt 2012). The municipalities develop plans of land usage in which they legally dedicate land to specific purposes (Hirt 2012). Changes in the plans for land usage must pass the municipal council and need approval by an upper-tier administration.…”

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Does Interlocal Competition Drive Cooperation in Local Economic Development Policies? Evidence on Interlocal Business Parks in Germany

Bischoff

Melch

Wolfschütz

2020

Urban Affairs Review

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An increasing number of municipalities cooperates in the field of economic development. In this article, we focus on a specific instrument in this field, namely the development of joint business parks. We apply a hazard model to data from West German municipalities between 2000 and 2015. We find interlocal business parks to be more frequent among small municipalities and in urban clusters and other constellations where suitable land is scarce. Our main focus rests on the role of intraregional competition. An analogy building on the literature on international tax coordination supports the hypothesis that interlocal business parks are more likely in regions where intraregional competition is intense. We measure the intensity of competition using local tax rates and find the evidence to be affirmative: The likelihood of interlocal business park formation increases in the intensity of intraregional (tax) competition.

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“…One explanation for this refers to the much larger amount of public involvement in the planning process of suburban centres in countries such as France and the Netherlands (Bontje/Burdack 2005). Furthermore, less rigid zoning practices in Europe, compared to the US experience, have often been stressed as relevant contextual factors responsible for a transatlantic divergence in spatial urban structure and urban form (see Hirt 2012). While residents and their residential preferences have long been identified as strong drivers of the process of suburbanisation, other influences have been discussed to a much lesser extent, such as the supply side of the housing market or job opportunities for the residents.…”

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Suburbanisation and Suburbanisms – Making Sense of Continental European Developments

Heße

Siedentop

2018

RuR

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This paper provides a brief overview of recent developments and debates concerned with suburbanisation in continental Europe. While current discourses in urban research and practice still focus on processes of reurbanisation and the gentrification of inner-city areas, suburbia continues to exist and thrive. Depending on the definition applied, suburban areas still attract a large share of in-migration and employment growth in cities of the developed countries. Given that popular meta-narratives on suburbia and suburbanisation are often spurred by, or refer to, North American suburban studies, we take a different perspective here, one based on continental European trajectories of development in and across city-regional areas that are considered to be suburban, and on social processes that are associated with suburbanisation (suburbanisms). Thus, we aim to avoid a biased understanding of suburbia as a spatial category, which is often considered mono-functional, non-sustainable, or in generic decline. Instead, we observe that suburban variety is huge, and the distinction between urban core and fringe seems to be as ambiguous as ever. The paper, which also introduces the theme of this special issue of “Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning”, bundles our findings along four themes: on suburbia as a place of economic development, on the shifting dynamics of housing between core and fringe locales, on the life-cyclic nature of suburbanisation, and on strategies for redevelopment. Finally, we discuss certain topics that may deserve to be addressed by future research, particularly on the European variant of suburbanisation and suburbs.

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Mixed Use by Default

Cited by 53 publications

References 38 publications

Preserving Farmland on the Urban Fringe: A Literature Review on Land Policies in Developed Countries

Preserving Farmland on the Urban Fringe: A Literature Review on Land Policies in Developed Countries

Does Interlocal Competition Drive Cooperation in Local Economic Development Policies? Evidence on Interlocal Business Parks in Germany

Suburbanisation and Suburbanisms – Making Sense of Continental European Developments

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