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...
Next Economy, Next C...
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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 ...
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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...
UPAT workshops for UN-Habitat
posted by Martin Dubbeling
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
posted by Martin Dubbeling
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-Sha...
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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...
The fragile water sy...
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Hua-Yao village has a distinct different setting than Si-He Village. There are more and larger open spaces close to the oldest parts of the village and that these open spaces connect with the system of creeks and waterways. These open space presumably remained vacant, as these areas are too...
Upgrading Si-He vill...
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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...
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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...
Strategy for the Sha...
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Invited by the City of Shantou, the Shantou Urban and Rural Planning Bureau and the Institute of Urban Planning and Design of the Nanjing University, a Team of Dutch Experts has visited South Shantou 20-26 January 2013 for an intensive and creative workshop for the organic regeneration of the...