Conflict in Urban Development : A Comparison Between East and West

This book provides insight into the structure and performance of the Polish and Dutch policy systems concerning conflict in urban development, showing how the different parties concerned use a large arsenal of formal and extra-legal powers to pursue their goals.

Three pairs of cases are discussed in which overt conflicts arose during the policy-making process.

These cases deal with the location of waste disposal site, the control of urban development in a zone of environmental nuisance and urban expansion in a metropolitan area.

Policy networks, in terms of actor-orientation and inter-oganisational aspects, together with a section on conflict theory, are used as a theoretical-analytical framework.