Print Email Facebook Twitter Operating in the Dutch housing system: A guidance for Dutch municipalities to get more understanding on strategies to develop dwellings on their land during the aftermath of the housing crisis of 2008 Title Operating in the Dutch housing system: A guidance for Dutch municipalities to get more understanding on strategies to develop dwellings on their land during the aftermath of the housing crisis of 2008 Author Van der Harst, F.R. Contributor Elsinga, M.G. (mentor) Van der Heijden, H.M.H. (mentor) Groenleer, M.L.P. (mentor) Linders, G. (mentor) Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department OTB Research Programme Housing Studies, Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management Date 2014-07-07 Abstract The changed conditions in the Dutch housing market have made it difficult for municipalities to decide what type of strategy is suitable to apply. This thesis focuses on the decision for a top-down (TD) or bottom-up and network oriented (BN) strategy. There seems to be a trend in Dutch housing away from TD strategies and towards more BN strategies. However, there are still municipalities which apply TD strategies. This has raised the main question in this research: Why do some Dutch municipality apply a top-down strategy while others apply a bottom-up and network oriented strategy to develop dwellings? The mechanisms behind the decision of a Dutch municipality to apply a TD or BN strategy in Dutch housing have been analysed by using theoretical concepts of network theory and urban governance, by conducting an analysis of the conditions in the Dutch housing system, an analysis of the development of strategies and the accompanied conditions and through three case studies. The main conclusion is that the more a municipality is operating in a network of interdependencies, the more a BN strategy is required. The presence of a network of interdependencies can be determined by analysing the presence of the variety, closedness, interdependency and dynamics in the network of parties. The more these four network conditions are present, the more one operates in a network of interdependencies. Subject Dutch HousingNetwork theoryUrban governanceTop-downBottom-up To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:645023e8-c589-4daf-8205-3c24028bebb5 Embargo date 2014-07-07 Coordinates 52.002729, 4.370284 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2014 Van der Harst, F.R. Files PDF Master_Thesis_Frank_van_d ... _Harst.pdf 2.79 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:645023e8-c589-4daf-8205-3c24028bebb5/datastream/OBJ/view