World Cities Day Forum in Xiamen Oct16

World Cities Day For...

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China, UN-Habitat and the Fujian Provincial Government hosted World Cities Day Forum in Xiamen, China, on Monday the 31st of October 2016. Martin Dubbeling, Vice-President of the International Society of City and...

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The Transition of the Planning Tradition in the Netherlands The renowned spatial planning tradition in the Netherlands is in the middle of a radical transition. In 2015, proclaimed as the Year of Spatial Planning, the planning community celebrated 50 years of structured national planning,...

Fading line between the success or failure of a city Jun16

Fading line between ...

Interview for Rabobank Highlights, ‘Handpicked essentials for today’s leaders’ by Herman Kleintjes. Earning legitimacy as a city requires hard work – keeping a finger on the pulse, staying young and vital, facilitating and promoting. Luck is a factor, but luck alone is no...

Highlights 2013-2014

Employment and Professional Activities in 2013-2014 Connecting Cities, in Assen, the Netherlands. Office for research, consultancy, design and communication in sustainable urban and regional planning. Position: Founder and principal, urban planner and designer, consultant in sustainable development. Registered as Urban Designer in the Register of Architects, registration number 2.890201.001 (since 1989). Chair of the Committee on Sustainable Urbanism of the Netherlands professional organisations of urban planning and design and landscape architecture (BNSP and NVTL), until December 2013. Vice President of BNSP, the Netherlands professional...

Presentations in China Dec14

Presentations in Chi...

The Academic Committee of Foreign Studies in Urban Planning of Urban Planning Society of China and the Department of Urban Planning and Design of the Nanjing University have honoured me to invite me to participate in the two day conference ‘County Territory Development and Planning in the New...

UPAT workshops for UN-Habitat Aug14

UPAT workshops for UN-Habitat

For ISOCARP I am responsible for the acquisition and preparation of Urban Planning Advisory Team (UPAT) workshops worldwide. The objective of a UPAT is to mobilize the extensive planning experience and expertise of ISOCARP members in order to help and assist cities and regions with for projects, programmes and policies on spatial planning and urban design. In the week of 15-23 August 2014 I was invited by the UN-Habitat office in Ramallah to prepare a UPAT workshop for an independent Test Planning Exercise for the region between the cities of Ramallah, Bethlehem and Jericho. This region, that includes East-Jerusalem, is an underdeveloped...

Ten Years of UPATs, Symposium at ETH Zürich Jul14

Ten Years of UPATs, Symposium at ETH Zürich

From 2004 till today, there have been some 22 Urban Planning Advisory Teams taking the expertise from both senior and young planners from ISOCARP to numerous places and regions all over the world, to address and probe, together with local and regional experts, challenging planning questions defined by inviting cities and other institutions. Against the background of the 50 years anniversary of ISOCARP in 2015, the ETH Zürich organized a symposium to create an opportunity to discuss the results as well as the longer-term impacts and outcomes from this ISOCARP initiative, to reflect upon those and draw lessons for the future advancement of...

TOD node for Xia-Shan May14

TOD node for Xia-Sha...

The Xia-Shan covered market is an ideal location for a mixed-use and transit-oriented development that expands the green space network from the northwest hillside park. These approaches are described in the Transit Oriented Development and Urban & Green Space Development sections of the...

Upgrading Si-He village Feb14

Upgrading Si-He vill...

Si-He Village dates back to the Song Dynasty and is known as the home of the celebrated poet Zhou Dunyi (1017-1073), famous for his ode to the Lotus flower. This village is an ideal site to promote waterway revitalization by making space for the retention and temporal storage of water. The...

Eight Principles for the Jiangbei New District Jan14

Eight Principles for...

The development of the Jiangbei New District will bring enormous opportunities and challenges for the Yangtze River delta area and the Nanjing Metropolitan. The City of Nanjing underlines the need for innovative strategies for transit‐oriented, ecological, sustainable and low‐carbon urban...