ABSTRACT

Planning involves institutional design. Regulations, which can be defined as legal rules that are made to structure behaviour, are important types of institutions that can be deployed for achieving aims with regard to spatial development. Planning and regulation often need each other and often go together well. Regulations are one type of resource that are employed to plan future land uses, next to for instance financial and communicative resources. And vice versa, plans such as land-use or zoning plans are often, but not always and necessarily (Neuman 1998), used to regulate land.