Hans Leinfelder

Hans Leinfelder is an associate professor in the master program in urbanism and spatial planning and vice-dean of education at the Faculty of Architecture of KU Leuven-Belgium. He is a bioscience engineer and spatial planner with a PhD in engineering sciences. Professionally he has commuted between academic research at Ghent University (1992-1996 and 2002-2010) and KU Leuven (2014- now), and policy making at the Flemish Government (1996-2002 and 2010-2014). His academic research focuses on substantive and instrumental aspects of planning policy, with a preference for planning challenges in peri-urban open spaces and the translation of societal challenges into the best suited planning policy instruments.

Research:

Open space
Planning instruments
Planning policy
Planning without growth

Key Publications:

Buitelaar E. & Leinfelder, H. (2020): Public design of urban sprawl: governments and the extension of the urban fabric in Flanders and the Netherlands. Urban Planning, 5 (1), DOI: 10.17645/up.v5i1.2669

Dewaelheyns, V., Leinfelder, H. & Gulinck, H. (eds.) (2018). Interfaces in landscape and land use, challenging the boxes. Gompel&Svacina, Oud-Turnhout en ’s-Hertogenbosch.

Claeys, M. & Leinfelder, H. (2017). Het omgevingsbesluit als instrument van de toekomst voor geïntegreerde planningsprocessen in plaats van wettelijke planprocedures. Tijdschrift voor Omgevingsrecht en Omgevingsbeleid. Nr. 3, p. 288-299.

Declerck, J., Segers, T., Vandemoortel, B., Mangelschots, H., Nachtergael, C., Leinfelder, H. & Claeys, M. (2017). Operation Open Space. Vlaamse Landmaatschappij, Brussel.

Leinfelder, H. & Allaert, G. (2010). Increasing societal discomfort about a dominant restrictive planning discourse on open space in Flanders/Belgium. European Planning Studies, 18 (11), p. 1787-1804.

Leinfelder, H. (2009). Formalisation of ‘open space as public space’ in zoning: the Belgian experience, p. 225-247. In: Van Der Valk, A. & Van Dijk, T. (eds.). Regional planning for open space. Routledge, London and New York.