Exploring a Stakeholder Based Urban Densification and Greening Agenda for Rotterdam Inner City—Accelerating the Transition to a Liveable Low Carbon City

Exploring a Stakeholder Based Urban Densification and Greening Agenda for Rotterdam Inner City—Accelerating the Transition to a Liveable Low Carbon City

Tillie, Nico (TU Delft Landscape Architecture)
Borsboom-van Beurden, Judith (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU))
Doepel, Duzan (DSA Doepel Strijkers Architecture)
Aarts, Martin (Gemeente Rotterdam)

2018-06-01

Work on a liveable low carbon city has often been approached in a technocratic way, not linking to other disciplines and urban practices at a large scale. This paper explores a stakeholder based urban agenda for a more liveable low carbon city by densifying and greening with the case study of Rotterdam inner city. Rotterdam presents a unique European case with a modernistic inner city. Like many North American cities, the inner city for a long time mainly served as a business or shopping district with few inhabitants and few synergetic links between flows, urban functions, and areas. In line with other cities, Rotterdam aims to reduce carbon emissions and provide a high quality of life. To address this, the hypothesis 'densifying and greening leads to a more sustainable inner city', was tested and applied with stakeholders using transition management combined with urban data, modelling, and design. With sustainability indicators, geographic information system (GIS) mapping, and urban models, a baseline study was completed and expected outcomes were described and, where possible, validated in reality. The outcomes confirmed the stated hypothesis and showed that linking design, GIS mapping, and city data to transition management proved successful.

Densification
Greening
Liveability
Low carbon cities
Sustainable urban development
Synergetic urban landscape planning
Urban planning
OA-Fund TU Delft

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d6928206-ad41-45e8-b9a9-050db4f7cb9f

https://doi.org/10.3390/su10061927

2071-1050

Sustainability, 10 (6)

Institutional Repository

journal article

© 2018 Nico Tillie, Judith Borsboom-van Beurden, Duzan Doepel, Martin Aarts