Produktbeschreibung
The book Changing Cultures of Planning Rotterdam, Zürich, Nantes, Randstad, Bordaux intends to collect and exchange knowledge about recent innovative large-scale urban transformation processes in Europe, by investigating five urban developments.
Throughout Europe, urban planning has evolved from a regulatory practice to a more ‘project-based’ transformation of the urban territory. This evolution of urban planning practice has led to new policies, intended as an alternative to the existing, generic, ineffective regulatory planning practice (zoning, etc). However, these policies are now coming in for some criticism, as they have turned into a new set of rigid bureaucratic 'recipes' (procedures and rules).
Recent developments such as the Zuidas Development in Amsterdam or the Euratlantique development in Bordeaux show signs of having resulted from urban development projects of this - rather generic - kind. Such ‘generically developed’ urban projects often fail to produce pertinent and specific responses to societal challenges and to truly engage with complex social and urban contexts.
Throughout Europe, urban planning has evolved from a regulatory practice to a more ‘project-based’ transformation of the urban territory. This evolution of urban planning practice has led to new policies, intended as an alternative to the existing, generic, ineffective regulatory planning practice (zoning, etc). However, these policies are now coming in for some criticism, as they have turned into a new set of rigid bureaucratic 'recipes' (procedures and rules).
Recent developments such as the Zuidas Development in Amsterdam or the Euratlantique development in Bordeaux show signs of having resulted from urban development projects of this - rather generic - kind. Such ‘generically developed’ urban projects often fail to produce pertinent and specific responses to societal challenges and to truly engage with complex social and urban contexts.
