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Habitat : life in the city
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ISBN: 9053281916 Year: 1998 Publisher: The Hague Ministry of foreign affairs


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Het beste moet nog komen ...
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ISBN: 9057202506 Year: 2006 Volume: *12 Publisher: Deurne BMP

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'Het beste moet nog komen' is het derde boek dat Patrick Janssens over Antwerpen publiceert. Daarin maakt hij een kritische analyse van hoe zijn stad de voorbije jaren is veranderd en de opties die voorliggen voor de toekomst.


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Master planning for change : designing the resilient city
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ISBN: 9781859469262 1859469264 9781000033922 1000033929 9781000033847 1000033848 9781000033885 1000033880 9781003021490 1003021492 Year: 2020 Publisher: London RIBA Publication Ltd.

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Cities are under increased pressure to be resilient and resistant to the effects of climate change and rapid urbanisation. However, this idea has still not been fully integrated in to practice. This book presents a practical approach to masterplanning the city and its areas (existing and new) as urban environments for the 21st century, addressing the design of cities as complex adaptive systems. --


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DIY City : The Collective Power of Small Actions
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ISBN: 1642830526 9781642830521 Year: 2020 Publisher: Washington, DC Island Press

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"Some utopian plans have shaped our cities, from England's New Towns and Garden Cities to the Haussmann plan for Paris and the L'Enfant plan for Washington, DC. But these grand plans are the exception, and seldom turn out as envisioned by the utopian planner. Inviting city neighbourhoods are more often works of improvisation on a small scale. This type of bottom-up development gives cities both their character and the ability to respond to sudden change. Hank Dittmar, urban planner, friend of artists and creatives, sometime rancher, believed in letting small things happen. Dittmar concluded that big plans were often the problem. Looking at the global cities of the world, he saw a crisis of success, with gentrification and global capital driving up home prices in some cities, while others decayed for lack of investment. In DIY City, Dittmar explains why individual initiative, small-scale business, and small development matter, using lively stories from his own experience and examples from recent history, such as the revival of Camden Lock in London and the nascent rebirth of Detroit. DIY City, Dittmar's last original work, captures the lessons he learned throughout the course of his varied career, from transit-oriented development to Lean Urbanism, that can be replicated to create cities where people can flourish. DIY City is a timely response to the challenges many cities face today, with a short supply of affordable housing, continued gentrification, and offshore investment. Dittmar's answer to this crisis is to make Do-It-Yourself the norm rather than the exception by removing the barriers to small-scale building and local business. The message of DIY City can offer hope to anyone who cares about cities."--Amazon.com


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Waardevolle Wijken : De Waardebloem - ontwerpmethode voor collectieve circulaire initiatieven
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ISBN: 9789462087392 Year: 2022 Publisher: Rotterdam Nai010 uitgevers

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How can integral circular solutions contribute to the realisation of added value in the neighbourhood? This book provides insight into how citizens can play an active and effective role in the transitions to a circular and sustainable society. Inspiring for citizens who want to develop their own initiatives to make their living environment more sustainable. In Circular Communities, pioneering, collectively supported initiatives are central, aimed at closing resource flows at neighbourhood or district level and thus contributing to the transition to a circular economy.For the analysis of these different initiatives, the researchers - urban planner Els Leclercq and architect Mo Smit - developed a unique method: the Circular Value Flower method. This method helps to organise the joint closing of resource flows (materials, energy, water, biota, nutrients) on a neighbourhood scale and provides insight into the added value (economic, ecological, social, cultural, aesthetic) that can be realised within the built environment. Circular Communities thus offers inspiration and lessons for integral sustainable interventions at the scale of the neighbourhood and ties in with the new Environmental Planning Act (2022), which explicitly offers space for citizen initiatives and local commissioning.


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Densification of urban landscapes : Post-War housing developments between preservation and renewal
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ISBN: 9783038630739 303863073X Year: 2022 Publisher: Zürich Triest Verlag

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Post-war residential developments across Europe, which make up the majority of housing stock, are under pressure to develop further. How to deal with those dwellings has thus become one of the core questions on building among existing building stock. Most of them are in need of renovation and, due to their urban composition, are accompanied by large open spaces, which seem to provide easily developable structures.At the same time, these developments and quarters are valuable historic witnesses. Densification efforts should therefore always allow for the overall composition of the development.For the first time, this workbook offers planners and historic preservationists as well as municipalities, city administrations, cooperatives, clients and owners a comprehensive guide to preserving the qualities of post-war residential developments due for densification. In its analysis, it also considers aspects of landscape planning, socio-politics and the conservation of historic gardens.Using selected, extensively documented case studies of densifications as well as densification experiments for yet to be densified developments, the editors show that inner-city densification is possible even when considering building culture, built heritage and commemorative values.The publication shows procedures for a mindful definition of individual conservation goals that can serve as guidelines in the course of planning densification. Therefore, it not only offers valuable assistance in recognizing and maintaining the individual and often unique character of a residential development, but also presents planning criteria that allow for a meaningful densification.

Global city-regions : trends, theory, policy
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ISBN: 0198297998 0199252300 9780199252305 9780198297994 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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