Click here to open interactive map The city of Amsterdam has quite some experience in organizing incubator projects, due to the local incubator policy (Broedplaatsenbeleid). Incubator projects are basically contracts of temporary use of vacant buildings, between the owner (private, municipality, housing corporations etc.) and a cultural end-user (individual or group). Subsidies for these projects [...]
In 1985 a group of actors and their director, in need of a place to perform their plays, decided to bring new life to the abandoned open air theatre in Amsterdam. ´Bostheater´ lies at the southern edge of the city, not far from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, in the middle of a large suburban park from [...]
Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS) has preserved a series of photographs of german photographer Hildegard Rosenthal, made during the 1940′s in São Paulo. An online photo gallery can be viewed by clicking here. Read more: Instituto Moreira Salles
A praça Roosevelt foi construída há quarenta anos e está prestes a ser demolida para poder realizar um novo projeto municipal. Os posts sobre a praça em Projetos Urbanos têm sido muito bem lidos e geram uma discussão em torno do futuro deste local importante do centro de São Paulo. Portanto, novas informações sobre a [...]
In March 2010 Merten joined Association Delta Metropolis as researcher/designer. The association promotes an integrated sustainable development of the Delta Metropolis – the western conurbation of The Netherlands, necessary to maintain its competitive position in Europe. The activities of the association concern landscape, new metropolitan forms of land use and mobility. Merten focuses mainly on [...]
