The Netherlands used to be a quite consolidated development market. Developers and municipalities could afford to make big projects for whole areas and finance them in one go, off course in phases. The projects depended on just a small amount of big developers. Nowadays because of the crisis things changed. Municipalities and urbanists are looking for different way of developing because off the absence of big developers, big financing and absence of housebuyers demand. A new way of development is needed.
Recently at the digital forum for urbanists Ruimtevolk an article was written by Jurgen Hoogendoorn (municipality Amsterdam) en Herman Swen (municipality Zaanstad) about the topic. Summary and translation of the article 'Slow Urbanism as answer to the crisis' (' Langzame Stedenbouw als antwoord op de crisis'):
