Promoting planning for housing development: What can Sweden learn from Germany?

Hansson, Anna Granath

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.03.012

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“…Sweden has introduced new urban planning measures related to housing construction time-e ciency policies in order to combat housing shortages in development (Granath Hansson, 2017). The appeal of the Algiers Metro region has contributed to the fast rise and physical development of the urban footprint.…”

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“…For example, in Ireland, the planning authorities propose that the density of housing in large cities (with populations greater than 5,000) should be increased in order to create a sustainable residential model in a suitable area (Government of Ireland, 2009). Sweden has introduced new urban planning measures related to housing construction time-e ciency policies in order to combat housing shortages in development (Granath Hansson, 2017). The appeal of the Algiers Metro region has contributed to the fast rise and physical development of the urban footprint.…”

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Monitoring Settlements Growth and Development in Algiers City Eastern Area

Bellout¹,

Vaz²,

Damásio³

2021

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Monitoring change detection in urban land use/land use is essential as it pertains to one of the main environmental change drivers, leading to urban pressures impacting cultivated areas. Algiers' eastern area is one of the critical areas of Algiers' state, and it is affected by the growth and development of the composing residential areas. This research aims to analyze the current issues, including aspects of land use, residential patterns, residential development directions, and characteristics of the communities in residential growth areas. We used Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) data as the primary data source, and maps and statistical data as the secondary. The annual growth of urban land has been studied over the past six years in Algiers' eastern area. Descriptive statistics and spatial analysis allowed assessing the data further. Results indicate that there has been a 100% expansion of the residential regions during the decade from 2014 to 2020. Population in the expansion areas increased by 2%. Future studies should understand the impact of rapid urban lands on social, economic, and environmental sustainability. It will also close the gap between currently available data sources, especially regarding the lack of reliable data and environmental and urban planning for Algiers' municipality. This aids directly in developing experimental models to predict future changes of land with great statistical confidence.

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Monitoring Settlements Growth and Development in Algiers City Eastern Area

Bellout¹,

Vaz²,

Damásio³

2021

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“…Member States had already implemented permissible exemptions from the European Plan-UP-Directive before Germany; for example, in France, the environmental assessment that is applied is comparatively sparse. Hansson [29] recently investigated the question of whether Sweden could learn from the building laws in Germany, in particular from the accelerated procedure to promote housing development. Thus, the question also arises as to whether two or more objectives, that is, reducing land conversion, reducing administrative costs, increasing competitiveness, and promoting housing development, can be achieved simultaneously.…”

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Do Administrative Incentives for the Containment of Cities Work? An Analysis of the Accelerated Procedure for Binding Land-Use Plans for Inner Urban Development in Germany

Dillmann

Beckmann

2018

Sustainability

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In order to reduce land conversion for settlement and traffic purposes, the German government introduced in 2002 the 30 ha per day objective and since then established a number of policies and projects in order to achieve this goal in 2030. On 1 January 2007, an amendment of the Federal Building Code came into force, which introduced an accelerated procedure for binding land-use plans for inner urban development (section 13a). The aim of this amendment was to simplify and accelerate the planning law for projects to support inner urban development. This paper seeks to answer the question of whether or not the accelerated procedure contributes to increased inner urban development by providing incentives for the reuse of vacant developed land, which are often contaminated sites. Based on the example of the city of Stralsund in the rural region of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, we explore the quantitative land development in the inner and outer area from 1990 to 2018 and calculate costs savings for developers and public authorities. The results reveal that, although the accelerated procedure has been widely applied in the city of Stralsund since 2007, its effect on increased inner urban development has been very limited. The magnitude of the cost advantage is rather small, so that the accelerated procedure is often not regarded as decisive for the decision of inner versus outer development. The accelerated procedure has reduced the administrative burden for developers and public administration; however, in order to reach the 30 ha per day objective, more tailored policy instruments are needed.

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“…Further, municipal housing companies have been instructed to develop more affordable housing (for example , Familjebostäder 2016;SAGA 2017). To date, reforms have focused on municipal organisation, urban planning, land allocation and subsidy policies (Granath Hansson 2017a, 2017b. Both countries' central governments have presented programmes with lists of prioritised measures (BMUB 2015;Regeringskansliet 2016), in which they identify the potential of serial housing construction and highlight type approval of multi-family housing as an important concept in the provision of affordable housing.…”

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Boosting affordable housing supply: Could type approval of serially produced housing be a piece in the puzzle?

Hansson

2017

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The housing shortage has become a major political concern in Sweden and Germany. To ease tension on housing markets, both the Swedish and German central governments aim to extend housing supply and have highlighted type approval of multi-family housing as an important concept in the provision of affordable housing.The article outlines the role of serial housing construction in a historical as well as a contemporary setting, and describes the roles of agents and institutional prerequisites related to housing policy, urban planning and building permission in the two countries. The comparative data is analysed using theories on institutional change, with the aim of tentatively explaining why and how institutional change evolves.Results show that shifts in relative prices, technology and preferences are driving reform. Although the major agents (central governments, states, municipalities and developers) have different motives for supporting or working against reform, a majority of agents are acting in favour of reform. It is concluded that it is probable that type approval of multi-family housing will be introduced in both countries. However, the time for negotiations on the scope of reform between agents involved is expected to be shorter in Sweden than in Germany, due to Sweden's fewer layers of government and a stronger set of decisive agents. Once an agreement has been reached, reform is expected to be quicker in Germany than in Sweden as legal text and an assessment institution already exist. Keywords

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Promoting planning for housing development: What can Sweden learn from Germany?

Cited by 18 publications

References 14 publications

Monitoring Settlements Growth and Development in Algiers City Eastern Area

Monitoring Settlements Growth and Development in Algiers City Eastern Area

Do Administrative Incentives for the Containment of Cities Work? An Analysis of the Accelerated Procedure for Binding Land-Use Plans for Inner Urban Development in Germany

Boosting affordable housing supply: Could type approval of serially produced housing be a piece in the puzzle?

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