Abstract：

Most of Chinese planners and scholars admire the landscape in the Netherlands, and intend to learn from that. The existing Chinese studies on Dutch land use often pay more attention to the theoretical aspects of Dutch planning system, which usually leads to an understanding of one top-down process. But actually, given the real process of planning implementation, the municipality government which has the right of giving permission to actual constructions act both as a ruler, as well as a player in the game which we call land use planning. Municipalities dominate the planning process, and other interest groups like higher level governments, developers and farmers have to adjust their strategies to respond to municipal government actions. This article addresses the implementary mechanism of Dutch land use planning, exploring all actors‘ roles and their strategies in practice. We choose Leidsche Rijn project in Utrecht serves as the case study, consider that the splendid result of Dutch landscaping does not come from planning agency directly, at least not always. It is reduplicative negotiations and trade-offs among all interest groups that have contributed to the beauty of Dutch land use. All these are driven by market mechanism, and guarded by legal justice. In this process, transparent planning procedures generally guarantee the basic legal property rights, so that every actor‘s strategy can be more or less fairly carried out in reality.

Keywords：

Dutch Land Use Planning, Higher Level Government, Municipality Government, Developers, Individual Farmer, Leidsche Rijn