Vrompapers No. 2 Designing for the Randstad in 2040 2040 (Dutch and English Edition) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9064507023 ISBN 13: 9789064507021

Publisher: 010 publishers, 2013

Synopsis

Designing Randstad 2040 is the second publication in the Design and Politics series. The series is an initiative by the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, and sheds light on the interplay between spatial design and politics. This book focuses on the application of design to planning in the Randstad conurbation. In the spring of 2008, a number of urban planners, architects and landscape architects took part in a series of workshops which were headed by Yttje Feddes, Matthijs Bouw, Hilde Blank and Jan Brouwer. Their purpose was to consider spatial options for the western part of the Netherlands in preparation for the Randstad 2040 Structural Vision. Sketching, designing, discussing and experimenting, the workshop participants sought alternative scenarios in which the Randstad could function sustainably as one of Europe's top economic and cultural regions. The design process, described and richly illustrated in this book, yielded three exciting perspectives on the future of the Randstad: World City, Coast City and Country City. The planning concepts include specialist clusters around Amsterdam, a mixed urban field by the sea and dispersed living/working environments on the flanks of the Randstad.

Edition details

• Publisher: 010 publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: Dutch
• ISBN 10: 9064507023
• ISBN 13: 9789064507021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 164
• Editor: Blank Hilde, Van Boheemen Yoran, Bouw Matthjis, Brouwer Jan