Yuan Lin

Keywords： Randstad Holland; Green Heart Strategy; Controversy; Consensus; Rural Area; Urbanization

Abstract：

??Randstad Holland is well-known for its regional form that polycentric metropolis ring and big green heart coexist with each other. However, 60 years of the implementation of Green Heart strategy is not an accomplishment in one action. There have been lots of controversies over a long time which brought about extensive debates about its persistence or discard. There are two main controversies. One happened in 60-70s, when the concept of Green Heart Metropolitan was just been putted forward, the economic recovery after the World War II stimulated the rapid growth of the built land within the Green Heart, which confused the people about the strategy’s effectiveness; the other happened in mid-1990s, when the Ministry of Space Planning conducted a broad controversy about the Green Heart strategy’s survival, during which there are critics and resistance, and approval and support as well, sufficiently affecting the ideal and paradox of the conservation of agriculture area in metropolitan region. This paper tries to better understand the controversies and consensus of Green Heart strategy, and better grasp the new trends ofprotection and management in green heart, so as to provide some insights for the urbanization and rural area protection in contemporary China.

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