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When the Bear Comes to Town: How the City Could Create Nature

Roggema, Rob (author), Rodriguez, Diego (author), Tillie, Nico (author)

The relationship between humans and nature is in permanent change. Where the city and nature used to be seen as enemies that needed to be kept away from each other, the current paradigm looks at a more symbiotic relationship. In this, man is seen as part of nature, and the city is seen as a determining factor in providing conditions for a rich...

journal article 2024

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Hoogbouw vraagt om interieurstedebouw

Harteveld, Maurice (author)

Al decennia staren beleidsmakers en stedebouwkundigen zich blind op hoogbouwbeleid door middel van hoogteregulering. Ook al blijft dit vanuit gezondheid en welstand verstandig, dit is een eenzijdige benadering. Zeker nu er steeds meer openbare ruimtes binnen de hoogbouwprojecten ontworpen en gerealiseerd worden, rijst de vraag hoe we voorbij de...

journal article 2023

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Design of Co-creation in Rotterdam Central Station (1996-2007): Architecture and urban design roles in the multi-stakeholder collaboration

Triggianese, M. (author)

This article explores the pivotal role of design as a decision-making tool within multi-stakeholder collaborations, focusing on the early phases of the Rotterdam Central Railway Station and its surroundings project. Spanning from 1996, when it gained National Key Project status, to 2007, when construction commenced, this period precedes the...

journal article 2023

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Reviewing Historic Urban Water Transitions to Advance Water-Sensitive Urban Design for Bhuj, India

van der Meulen, G.J.M. (author), Mishra, Gargi (author), van Dorst, M.J. (author), Iyer, Mona (author), Kuzniecow Bacchin, T. (author)

In rapidly growing urban contexts, water plays a pivotal role in the transitions the urban environment goes through to sustain the quality of life of its population. Spatial planning and design are essential for the facilitation and manifestation of such transitions. Focusing on Bhuj, a rapidly growing Indian city in a hot arid desert climate,...

journal article 2023

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Experts as Game Changers? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Climate Measures in the Metropolitan Region of Amsterdam

Herdt, T. (author), Muñoz Sanz, V. (author)

This article analyzes the acceptance of climate policy measures in the Metropolitan Region of Amsterdam to understand how policy and planning interrelate with private and public interests. While legitimizing climate policy and measures, values can also cause conflict when operationalized locally. By analyzing value conflicts in public discourse,...

journal article 2023

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Making post-war urban neighbourhoods healthier: involving residents’ perspectives in selecting locations for health promoting urban redesign interventions

Reijneveld, Sijmen A. (author), Koene, Marijke (author), Tuinstra, Jolanda (author), van der Spek, S.C. (author), Broekhuis, Manda (author), Wagenaar, C. (author)

Post-war urban neighbourhoods in industrialised countries have been shown to negatively affect the lifestyles of their residents due to their design. This study aims at developing an empirical procedure to select locations to be redesigned and the determinants of health at stake in these locations, with involvement of residents’ perspectives...

journal article 2023

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Developing an Integrated and Contextualized Planning and Design Framework for Livable Patterns of Urbanization in Chennai

Suresh, Kavya (author), Forgaci, C. (author), Stead, D. (author)

This article analyses the urban conditions of Chennai, India, and takes a critical look at its planning framework by considering four main aspects: the ecological structures, urban morphology, mobility, and livability. To do so, the article examines policy documents, urban form, public perceptions, and daily mobility patterns. Specific attention...

journal article 2022

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In the Minds of People: Port-City Perspectives, The Case of Rotterdam

Harteveld, Maurice (author)

Following the geographical ‘Any-Port Model’, urban design has stipulated and enforced the disunion of port and city over the recent decades. In conjunction with other disciplines, the emphasis has laid at dislocation of production activities in favor of logistic-productive dynamics. At the same time, professional focus was on the urban areas...

journal article 2021

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The Port-City Portrayed in its Public Spaces: Introducing Micro Biographies of Places

Harteveld, Maurice (author)

This article aims to extent the notion of port-cities and counter the mainstream narrative that port and city, in cases like Rotterdam, have become disunited by reviewing its public spaces in their unique port-city characteristics. These characteristics can be found by systematic approaching and describing public spaces as biographies of place,...

journal article 2021

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Domestication Will Shape Future Public Spaces: A Report from Rotterdam

Harteveld, Maurice (author)

This commentary aims to provide a window on the future by studying actions, taken to control the spreading of the corona virus, while obviously affecting public space over a year. What has been the effects on public space directly linked to these actions during the pandemic; what values play a role, and what can we expect for the future? We have...

journal article 2021

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Subsurface visualization in the planning products of disaster scapes in the USA and Japan

Hooimeijer, F.L. (author), Sugano, K. (author), Böing, D. (author), Lafleur, F. (author)

Global challenges of ongoing urbanization especially in areas with increased coastal, fluvial and pluvial flooding cannot be solved by mere engineering solutions. Reversed Engineering with Nature is a concept that puts the natural system central, but it does seek symbioses with engineering systems into a new hybrid condition. This spatial...

journal article 2021

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Planning History of a Dutch New Town: Analysing Lelystad through Its Residential Neighbourhoods

Spoormans, L.G.K. (author), Navas Carrillo, D. (author), Zijlstra, H. (author), Pérez-Cano, Teresa (author)

This article seeks to analyse the reciprocal influence between the post-war urban planning policies and the development of residential neighbourhoods in Lelystad between 1965 and 1990. This city has been designed ‘from scratch’ as the urban centre of the IJsselmeer Polders, the largest land reclamation project of the Netherlands. Lelystad’s...

journal article 2019

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Evaluating sustainable urban development using urban metabolism indicators in urban design

Song, Y. (author), Lopes Gil, J.A. (author), Wandl, Alex (author), van Timmeren, A. (author)

Urban metabolism is a multi-disciplinary approach to qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate resource flows in urban systems, which aims to provide important insights into the dynamics of cities to make them more ecologically responsible. It has been also introduced into the urban design domain, however most of the attempts concern only...

journal article 2018

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Urban Design and the Changing Context of Urban Regeneration in the Netherlands

Stouten, P.L.M. (author)

Urban design schemes accompanied by avant-garde design of space have been an outcome of economic growth of cities and countries in many periods of time. At the beginning of the 21st century, Nieuw Crooswijk in Rotterdam was the largest area involved in nationally launched policies. Many times the conflicts surrounding the plan were in the...

journal article 2016

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Industrial Energy Use and Interventions in Urban Form: Heavy Manufacturing versus New Service and Creative Industries

Romein, A. (author)

Now that it becomes obvious that disregarding the seriousness of climate change and the exhaustibility of fossil fuels would have severe and unpredictable impacts, improvement of the efficiency of urban energy consumption is of utmost importance. Hence, a rather diverse spectrum of policies to encourage this improvement has been put into...

journal article 2016

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The spatial flaws of new towns: Morphological comparison between a Chinese new and old town through the application of space syntax, spacematrix and mixed use index

Ye, Y.E. (author), Van Nes, A. (author)

Many new towns are established in China with the intention of providing desirable places to live. Nevertheless, these new towns often lack the flourishing street life, small businesses, and variety of social activities that old towns have to offer. This paper explores the spatial reasons why old towns tend to perform socio-economically better...

journal article 2014

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Dance, dance otherwise we are lost: A reflection on the times of the city from an Urban Design perspective

Calabrese, L.M. (author)

journal article 2013

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Deconstructing Rotterdam's modern city centre

Van der Hoeven, F.D. (author)

In the 20th century, the Dutch city of Rotterdam was radically transformed from a historic town into a modern city, becoming the selfacclaimed 'city of architecture', home to international architectural design offices, publishers and institutions. Although it is already 60 years after the destruction of the Rotterdam inner city, the city still...

journal article 2013

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Collectivity and the Post-war European Shopping Centre

Gosseye, J. (author)

This paper puts forth the hypothesis that notions such as ‘collectivity’, ‘play’ and ‘community’ – buzz words of the post-war discourse on architecture and urbanism – were often important elements in the design and conceptualization of post-war shopping centres in Western Europe. To investigate this hypothesis, the paper focuses on three...

journal article 2013

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Creating specific grammars with generic grammars: Towards flexible urban design

Beirao, J.N. (author), Duarte, J.P. (author), Stouffs, R.M.F. (author)

The aim of the City Induction project is to develop an urban design tool consisting of 3 parts: an urban programme formulation module, a generation module and an evaluation module. The generation module relies on a very generic Urban Grammar composed of several generic grammars called Urban Induction Patterns (UIPs) corresponding to typical...

journal article 2011