What makes a tree: Perspective on design, planning, management and policy-making around tree avenues

Inclusive designs

Abstract 366. This contribution deals with design workshops as part of public participatory processes in (sometimes) stiff processes on the rehabilitation of heritage landscapes.

Water Ways as the Backbones for Country-Houses-and-Suburban- Villas Landscapes: Method to read Heritage Landscapes

This paper is on the understanding of the cultural (historic) coherence in the urban landscape systems in the Netherlands and the use of this knowledge for sustainable landscape transformations. When culture (use, meaning) is hermeneutically read in (historic) landscape features, we can fully understand how the historic landscape functioned as a...

Southern Water Defence line: defensive area Breda- Geertruidenberg, the Netherlands

Introduction: Connecting Water and Heritage for the Future

Water has served and sustained societies throughout the history of humankind. People have actively shaped its course, form, and function for human settlement and the development of civilizations. Around water, they have created socioeconomic structures, policies, and cultures; a rich world of narratives, laws, and practices; and an extensive...

Hold the Line: The transformation of the New Dutch Waterline and the Future Possibilities of Heritage

The redevelopment of the New Dutch Waterline, also known as the New Hollandic Waterline, was crucial to a change in public appreciation of Dutch military heritage and its connection to landscape design. Starting in 1980, new methods of revitalization combined preservation, renewal, and narrative approaches. At the same time, the work on the New...

Welgelegen: Analyse van de Hollandse buitenplaatsen in hun landschappen (1630-1730)

In de zeventiende eeuw liet de stedelijke elite op grote schaal buitenplaatsen en landgoederen in het Hollandse laagland aanleggen. Zij verkoos de meest welgelegen plaatsen voor hun zomerverblijf met speelhuizen, bomenlanen en geschoren hagen. De voorkeur om in elkaars nabijheid te gaan wonen was veelal ingegeven door eenzelfde gebruik of...

Or more houses or more woods: A holistic approach to value historic urban green structures

This paper advocates a renewed attitude towards our urban nature, recognizing its trees as green heritage with the capability to increase the liveability of urban areas (SDG11). Planting trees in the Dutch public space started in the seventeenth century and cities became famous for its green atmosphere (1). In the agricultural landscape, trees...

Water systems to identify country houses landscapes: a method to organise heritage landscapes based on form, meaning or use

This paper advocates a new approach to group green heritage objects, like country houses and suburban villas, based on landscape features [1].<br/>Since the seventeenth century country houses and suburban villas were designed in relationship to important landscape elements, creating groups of country estates in so called country estates...

The Impact of Urban Planning and Governance on the Historic Built Environment (PICH): Final Report of the JPI-JHEP funded project

This report summarises the findings of the JPI Heritage Plus PICH Project’s nvestigation<br/>of the impact of the reform of urban planning on the historic built environment. The project team conducted twelve in-depth case studies in Italy, the Netherlands,<br/>Norway and the UK covering three settings: the built heritage of historic urban cores,...

Dutch Estates Landscapes: Method for describing the spatial essence

Well situated: Research to the tanible and intangible relation between estates and the landscape in Holland (the Netherlands) 1630-1730

The New Dutch Waterline

Nowadays, heritage is shifting towards a more structural approach, focusing on the urban landscape in which the intangible or the narrative of the place is used more often. The New Dutch Waterline is an example of this changing focus. This national transformation process (1999-now) led to high profile architectural and landscape architectural...

Renkumse buitenplaatsen in een nieuw perspectief 2: Uitkomsten atelier

Tegenwoordig wordt het rijke verleden van de gemeente Renkum onder meer weerspiegeld in de buitenplaatsen en landgoederen. Op de grens van het Veluwemassief en de dalen van de rivieren Rijn en IJssel werd de schoonheid van dit landschap met zijn vele vergezichten gebruikt om er in de zomer van te genieten. Al vanaf de 17e eeuw, maar nog meer in...

The story of the place: Different types of stories of a place, the Netherlands

Appointing the pedestrian crossing on Abbey Road (London, UK) as a listed monument is exemplary for the changing ideas on the preservation of monuments and historic sites in the last decades. This pedestrian crossing was not listed as a monument for its beauty, authenticity or its unique role in architectural history, which are normally criteria...

Project New Dutch Waterline and Project Arcadian Landscapes: Guidelines for new spatial development based in heritage

Fifteen years have passed since the start of the national project New Dutch Waterline, presented as an illustrative example of a renewed approach of which spatial design was cross linked to heritage, for it described in the Nota Belvedere (Feddes, 1999). From 1815 until 1940 the New Dutch Waterline was one of the major defence lines, both a...

Renkumse buitenplaatsen in een nieuw perspectief: Uitkomsten workshop

Een rijk buitenplaatsenlandschap. De zuidelijke Veluwezoom, op de grens van het Veluwemassief en de dalen van de rivieren Rijn en IJssel vormt een zone waarin door de tijd onder meer veel buitenplaatsen en landgoederen zijn aangelegd. De aanleg van deze buitenplaatsen en landgoederen ontwikkelde zich vanaf de 17e eeuw toen rijke burgers uit de...