regional strategy

Bernd Steinacher Fellowship

This fellowship is situated within the context of my doctorate at the University of Antwerp. My doctorate’s hypothesis is that since the 2008 financial and economic crises, alternative ways of urban development took place, which resulted in several shifts in the development of housing projects.

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EU Agenda @ Plandag 2o16

Get local authorities and regions the opportunity to further strengthen their integrated methodology and expand this into the European Urban Agenda? For Plandag 2o16 ‘Expanding’, David Dooghe wrote the paper ‘The European Urban Agenda versus the European practise’.

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Metro in Progress_Roundtable Brussels

Metro in Progress was an international roundtable event on metropolitan strategies, held in Brussels, November 2013. More than fourteen experts and administrators from eight metropolitan regions in the EU (Brussels, Stuttgart, Manchester, Paris, Bordeaux, Copenhagen-Malmo, Turin and Bucharest) share their insights, methods and experiences on the central theme: From Strategies to Implementation

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Metropolis NL @ Plandag 2o13

How metropolitan are the Netherlands and how can the different centres in the Dutch urban network increase their (metropolitan) attractiveness?

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People make the metropolis, the public authorities try to keep up

In the public Metropolis Forum, the annual meeting of Deltametropolis Association, the metropolitan development of the Netherlands was the central issue. Short essays of experts and people involved, were the input for the debate on how metropolitan development in the Netherlands can kick-start.

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Community of Competence Metropolisation

Defining the Metropolis was input for INTA’s first Community of Competence on Innovative Metropolitan Development.

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Morpho-Logic

A regional design project that creates a new structure for the further development of the Neckar area between Altbach and Wernau, Germany

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TimeLine_ Rotterdam

A historic and spatial research, which makes the components behind the urban dynamic of Rotterdam comprehensible.

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The people versus the metropolis

"Where other (European) cities or regions invest in their metropolitan development to secure their place in the future global league of strong economic and cultural cities, the Dutch cities seem not to be able to think outside their territorial boarders and they are therefore losing their current, just above average, position in the European League." A report of the Metropoolforum 2014

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Metro in Progress

The publication Metro in Progress offers the initial outcomes of the first series of interviews and meetings with a range of stakeholders, addressing metropolitan challenges and dilemmas.

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When organising meets planning.

Do the Dutch and the Fleming secretly envy each other’s urban design practice? Article in CITIES The Magazine, issue #o2: “EMERGING CENTERS”  

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tIP final debate, the Metropolitan Strategy NL

The starting point for a Metropolitan Strategy for the Netherlands, as a result of the Interperspective Perspectives series  

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Learning from Vancouver

By focussing on the quality of the city life for several decades, Vancouver has become one of the most liveable cities in the world. An overview of the lessons learned from a tour in Vancouver, guided by Larry Beasley.

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