Reflection. The open delta city

Reflection. The open delta city: Designing with different dynamics

Meyer, Han (TU Delft OLD Urban Compositions)

Nillesen, Anne Loes (editor)
Kothuis, Baukje (editor)
Meyer, Han (editor)
Palmboom, Frits (editor)

2016

In his lecture ‘The Open City’, Richard Sennett (2006) pleads for an approach in urban design and planning which creates conditions for an evolutionary city. In his view, the current generation of designers and planners is still too focused on the city as a closed system. As a result, many cities become frozen entities, unable to cope with social, economic and physical changes, inducing problems of economic and social stagnation and destruction. Sennett argues that we must regard the city as an open system, which can deal with change and uncertainty and which is able to adapt to unforeseen new circumstances.

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