“Inventing Europe is a pioneering collaborative project in which historians and cultural heritage institutions throughout Europe together tell a new kind of history of Europe. Following the paths of technology from the transport and communication revolutions of the Nineteenth Century through to the present day, in the course of half a year the project will [...]
The discussion continues on whether Amsterdam can realize urban growth within existing urban areas or whether the city needs the proposed big-scale expansion locations at the artifical island of IJburg and near the 1970′s satellite-town Almere. Architects Tom Bergevoet and Maarten van Tuijl, of Temp Architecture, did a basic survey using Google Earth and found [...]
Designer Leonard de Vogel produced a couple of intriguing fusions of Amsterdam with other waterfront cities. Imagine the canals of central Amsterdam with, on the horizon, the skyline of Manhattan. Or the central part of Rotterdam – north of the river Maas, combined with the central part of Amsterdam – south of Het IJ. Merge [...]
SprintCity (SprintStad in Dutch) is a project by the DeltaMetropolis Association, which investigates possibilities for urbanization around public transport nodes in the Randstad region (The Netherlands). The ultimate goal is to create attractive and sustainable environments for living, leisure and working, by optimizing the use of already existing rail infrastructure. For more information on this [...]
April 2011, researcher Henar Salas Olmedo obtained her PhD title in Geography and Spatial Planning at the University of Cantabria, Santander (Spain). Her thesis – THE SPATIAL IMPACT OF ROADS – discusses land use changes around heavy road infrastructure and was supervised by Dra. Soledad Nogués. Merten Nefs was asked to review and comment the [...]
