Tour Haven-Stad: Smart Mobility & Urban Development in Haven-Stad, Amsterdam

Maps represent reality in a consciously filtered and scaled way. We—not only designers but anyone who wants to interfere with the built environment—need maps to get a clutter-free overview of space. Moreover, we can project and infer very specific data of a location on a map creating a model and providing information that could never be...

Smart Mobility & Urban Development in Haven-Stad, Amsterdam: 2019 Summer School

Which approaches and scenarios of smart (multimodal) mobility can be tested and applied to the future urban development of Haven-Stad, Amsterdam?<br/>This is the main question the participants of the 2019 Summer School started working on. Included in this book are the results of this intense week of work done by 41 professionals, academics, and...

Reterritorializing Zuidoost: Towards sustainable, livable and just assemblages in Amsterdam Zuidoost

If we denounce neoliberal ideology and the capitalist order of today’s cities as value generating machines, what would the new order be? An integral part of Amsterdam’s emergence as a just city was the interaction between radical resident movements and national housing policy that was designed to solve the housing shortage through massive...

Magna Plaza. Een heel goed slecht voorbeeld: Over schaalvergroting van de architectuur van het Amsterdamse postkantoor in de 19e en 20e eeuw

This thesis explores the development of scale in the architecture of the Amsterdam post offices by C. Outshoorn (1854) and C.H. Peters (1898), and of the urban context around the building. The urban development takes place incited by technical development and rapid expansion of the city. The scale of the architecture of the post office itself...