The role of planning cultures in urban infrastructure development : The art of planning a tram for Nijmegen
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2013-06
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This
is
a
case
study
on
the
planning
culture
of
an
urban
infrastructural
public
transport
project
in
the
region
of
Nijmegen.
The
interviews
with
involved
actors
at
the
core
of
the
thesis,
are
conducted
under
the
theoretical
framework
of
actor-‐centred
institutionalism.
This
theory
asks
for
the
role
of
the
actors
within
their
institutional
setting
and
tries
to
unravel
the
spaces
of
interpretation.
These
spaces,
with
respect
to
my
work,
consist
of
the
soft
factors
of
planning
like
the
personal
beliefs
and
styles
of
working
that
individuals
have.
The
project
under
investigation
is
the
HOV
planning
for
the
region,
but
my
main
focus
was
on
the
question
of
whether
being
able
to
bring
back
the
tram
to
the
city
of
Nijmegen.
In
this
aspect
of
the
HOV
planning,
mainly
the
municipality
of
Nijmegen
and
the
City
Region
Arnhem
Nijmegen
are
involved.
Therefore
these
two
institutions
are
presented
by
introducing
their
main
actors
in
the
project.
The
chapter
on
these
leading
institutions
is
based
on
the
interviews
conducted
with
the
actors
in
spring
2012
and
therefore
should
already
open
up
the
discussion
relevant
to
my
research
questions.
On
the
chapter
on
the
actors
follows
a
part
where
I
have
chosen
fields
of
agency
within
the
project
of
HOV.
Here
again,
it
is
not
mainly
about
technical
aspects
of
the
planning,
but
about
how
the
actors
deal
with
the
hard
sides
of
the
project.
Different
opinions
and
convictions
become
clear
and
offer
us
insight
into
the
soft
aspects
of
the
planning
process.
The
core
of
the
analysis
consists
of
the
chapters
2.3
until
2.5.3
but
two
more
abstracts
summarize
the
findings
in
reference
to
the
research
question.
These
concern
the
spaces
of
interpretation
of
the
actors
within
their
institutional
setting
and
the
underlying
motives
of
their
doings
and
sayings.
The
thesis
is
introduced
by
a
chapter
on
the
research
background
and
by
one
about
the
internship
organisation.
In
the
part
on
theory,
practice
theory
is
added
to
actor-‐centred
institutionalism.
As
a
key
concept,
planning
culture
and
governance
are
introduced
before
moving
on
to
the
methodology.
Here,
it
is
first
about
the
way
the
interviews
were
developed
and
conducted,
then
follows
up
a
notion
on
how
I
worked
with
the
programme
Atlas
TI.
The
presentation
of
the
research
question
leads
to
the
empirical
section,
where
the
actors
of
the
case
study
are
presented
and
their
way
of
working
is
analysed.
The
main
outcome,
as
shown
in
the
conclusions,
is
the
finding
that
soft
factors
are
highly
influencing
the
planning
process
by
the
widely
varying
characters
of
the
actors.
Institutional
settings
can
be
described
but
it
became
clear
that
the
planners’
personality
is
much
more
than
the
doctrine
of
the
organization.
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