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 [...]
This month the urban plan for Nova Luz was presented. The plan encompasses the transformation of a large area (45 urban blocks, occupying 50 ha) close to the Luz railway station in central São Paulo. In the last decade, preparations for this plan have been made by the Municipality, including the construction of concert hall [...]
The Monopoly game shows us that for over a century, the economic system behind land ownership has remained more or less the same in the western world. Each time we lose a monopoly game we realize how difficult it is to become an important player when you have only few properties in town, except when [...]
As usual, Lebbeus Woods’ weblog is featuring stunning topics: the sudden rise of informal settlements in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, due to the societal collapse after the earthquake. For example, a golf course instantly turns into a refugee site with hundreds of tents. The same happens in the case of an airport. The original material can [...]
In 2004, the city of Maastricht approved the Belvédère master plan, concerning the grand scale redevelopment of an old industrial area, at the fringe of the old city center. The site is characterized by the old Sphinx factory (porcelain and ceramic products), as well as the central dock, where ships used to unload raw materials [...]
