Plug In & Play
A design-research on how to develop empty plots in Rotterdam centre.
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Urban Circular Economy @ IABR
If Urban Circular Entrepreneurs no longer will be a niche, but will form a mainstream market, what will be the effect on the city and more specific its public space?
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Expert meeting o2 Urban Circular Economy
What are the views from entrepreneurs on the three Urban Circular Economy scenarios?
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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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Economics of Beauty
An advice on what is the economical surpluses of investments in the quality (architecture, public space and amenities) of the inner city.
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WenK Sint Lucas: Molenbeek
David Dooghe is a studio mentor for the Master Urban Design at Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst, Sint-Lucas, Gent.
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Urban Dingsbums
The Ruhrgebiet is a mixed area with different functions like gigantic factories, large-scale infrastructure, village-like living enclaves and agriculture situated next to each other. The last decades a new spatial layer is growing in this area: the void.
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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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Urban Circular Economy
The development and testing of a methodology, which pushes forward the qualitative spatial development of an urban circular economy.
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RAvB: Reconstructing Urbanity
Oostplein Rotterdam: the square that doesn’t become a real square? Should we build or should we make it a square? A short report of the International workshop Reconstructing Urbanity.
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Year of Spatial Planning
The project Urban Circular Economy has been selected as one of the projects in the Year of Spatial Planning.
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He who pays the piper calls the tune
Out of the ownership research, the following primarily conclusions could be made concerning how ownership forms urban development in Antwerp as well as in Rotterdam.
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Debate Plug (In) & Play
The results of the design research Plug & Play were presented by the participating architects and urban designers and discussed with several professionals. Could, learning from all the different projects, a city-wide strategy be set up for the different locations?
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RAvB: Microclimates_for regional diversity
The question: How can something as small as a MICROclimate have an influence on a REGIONAL scale? was the starting point for the Summerschool 2o12 of the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design on ‘microclimates_for regional diversity’.
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Festival City_Rotterdam in the AIR Archive
Festival City_Rotterdam has been added to the website of the Architectural Institute of Rotterdam.
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You reach your destination!
What could be the role for the urban design and the designer now the long-term perspective seems to be under pressure by the focus on short time winnings? For Plandag 2011, Planning of the future, David Dooghe wrote a paper on how the role of the urban design and designer is shifting.
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WenK Sint Lucas: From Brussels to Tirana.
David Dooghe is a studio mentor for the Master Urban Design at Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst, Sint-Lucas, Gent.
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WenK Sint Lucas: Dendermonde
David Dooghe is a studio mentor for first Master Urban Design at Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst, Sint-Lucas, Gent/Brussels.
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