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Securing pathways for inclusive and integrated spatial development in Amsterdam
Suurenbroek, Frank; Spanjar, Gideon
Publication date 2018
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Suurenbroek, F., & Spanjar, G. (2018). Securing pathways for inclusive and integrated spatial development in Amsterdam. Poster session presented at International Association People- Environment Studies, Rome, Italy.
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Fig. 4: In collaboration with the mun. of Amsterdam, the local community and various skilled experts, we use the design thinking approach, to work towards a thriving
community and healthy environment
transition zone transition zone
workshop workshop preliminary findings preliminary findings
H-neighbourhood Park Business district
Leisure area
Retail area
Securing pathways for inclusive and
integrated spatial development in Amsterdam Securing pathways for inclusive and integrated spatial development in amsterdam
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ABSTRACT
Now, that the European cities are overcoming the recent economic challenges, they accelerate the development of major housing schemes to accommodate their growing urban population.
Amsterdam for instance, sets out to construct
50,000 new homes by 2025. Parallel to this, the City Council presented a new regeneration and urban optimisation program in 2017, to reinforce existing neighbourhoods with relatively weak socio-economic status. If these housing policies are to maximise on opportunities, they need to anticipate the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Climate Agreement, and local socio-environmental challenges, into a single cohesive, sustainable solution.
Currently, literature indicates that large scale spatial developments, have a tendency to move away from social and ecological ambitions during the course of the planning process. Moreover, ambitions tend to be short term “fixes” where they could be striving for long-term systemic solutions.
What is needed, are practice proven comprehensive development strategies to secure pathways for
inclusive and integrated development. Those
strategies are spatial and programmatic governance arrangements.
Employing a comparative analysis method, we follow and compare the redevelopment of three deprived boroughs across Amsterdam. In collaboration with communities, we are able to construct a “Design Thinking” approach for urban spatial development, using different types of arrangements. This is in
reflection and collaboration with the municipality of Amsterdam and a wide variety of skilled experts. The arrangements are tested in practice, following a plan- do-check-act cycle. The research project takes an in- depth look at the Amsterdam case and presents the first set of arrangements for planning more cohesive, urban spatial development and the preliminary
strategies we see emerging.
New-West
Southeast North
Centre
H-neighbourhood
Dr. Frank Suurenbroek
Prof. of Spatial Urban Transformation
Leading the research-track Inclusive Area development f.suurenbroek@hva.nl
Fig. 3: Introducing Design Thinking in planning for developing faster and more practice-proven solutions.
Fig. 2: H-neighbourhood, an experimental zone for analysing,
developing and testing new arrangements. The main focus for urban renewal, lies in the “transition-spaces”. They connect the
neighbourhood with the rapidly developing adjacent areas (in blue the redevelopment projects) and are vital for improving the weak
social-economic status.
Fig. 5: Transition zone between the business district and the H-neighbourhood. Developing (pre)prototypes to resolve physical and social barriers for making the subway the backbone of the Southeast.
fig. 1: 34 neighbourhoods designated for urban renewal in Amsterdam across the boroughs of North, New-West and Southeast Amsterdam. AUAS active alongside action-research in three neighbourhoods including the H-neighbourhood in the Southeast.
ABSTRACT Urban renewal in amsterdam urban renewal in amsterdam
design thinking approach design thinking approach case study
h-neighbourhood case study h-neighbourhood
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TERIALISE
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Empathize
Ideate Prototype
Test
Implement
www.amsterdamuas.com/urban-management
Dr. Gideon Spanjar
Project manager action-research in H-neighbourhood Senior Researcher Inclusive Area development
g.spanjar@hva.nl
Business people, citizens and tourists all experience and use the built environment differently. We are currently taking eye tracking research outdoors, to gather a deeper understanding of user groups’
specific visual experiences.
In the revitalisation process of deprived areas, we should explore more the synergistic potential between developments and adjacent areas. Focusing on the improvement of socio-economic-spatial connections between neighbourhoods and start with the important transition spaces.
Traditional participatory methods in design and planning practice, fall short of fully including citizens of deprived neighbourhoods. Design thinking adapted for urban renewal projects may (partly)
resolve this deficit, in order to make spatial development more inclusive.
