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  • Circling Schiphol – An adventurous cycle tour

    Circling Schiphol – An adventurous cycle tour

    The best way to explore Schiphol? By bicycle, of course! Circle the airport and discover powerguzzlers and vanished villages, old forts and new churches, giant warehouses and pocket parks. A narrow corridor meandering between the motorway and a runway, makes even the epicentre accessible: Schiphol Plaza. You’d be hard-pressed to…

  • The Dutch Silicon Valley for lonely expats

    The Dutch Silicon Valley for lonely expats

    Journalist Tijs van den Boomen wrote a book about the expat community in Veldhoven in the province of Brabant that has sprung up over the past few decades around the foundation of ASML’ s head office. His conclusions: a lot of people live in isolation.

  • Street heroes

    Street heroes

    In the affluent West, street trade has practically disappeared. Everywhere else, newcomers and old-timers are trying to earn a living within a few square meters.

  • And the winner of the Young Maaskant Prize 2017 is… Arna Mačkić

    And the winner of the Young Maaskant Prize 2017 is… Arna Mačkić

    The jury awards Arna Mačkić (1988) with the Young Maaskant Prize 2017 for her quest for an ‘inclusive architecture’ and new forms of public domain. Mačkić does not design alone, and she also conveys her ideas through writing and public speaking. She is a connecting voice, healing the wounds of…

  • Urban Challenges, Resilient Solutions

    Urban Challenges, Resilient Solutions

    Traditionally, urban planning solves problems through cool deduction and a top-down approach. But only a few people still believe that this works. The current generation of architects, urban planners and landscape architects knows that making our urban regions more healthy and vital takes a more collaborative and intelligent approach, argues…

  • Doing the Rounds of the Randstad

    Doing the Rounds of the Randstad

    The book ‘Highway x City’ examines the future of the Urban Ring Road. By way of introduction, journalist Tijs van den Boomen ‘did the rounds’ and saw more city than highway.

  • The Precarious Tree

    The Precarious Tree

    Where: A58 ––– Wanted: an innovative tree-saving idea ––– Budget: ten million euros ––– Alternative: the axe ––– Exhibited: Dutch Design Week 2015

  • On The Road!

    On The Road!

    The Province of North Holland wholeheartedly opts for Transit Oriented Development (TOD), an integrated approach to public transport and spatial development. TOD is usually the domain of traffic engineers and planners; this book, however, gives designers free rein. BNA Research gave ten professional design teams and five teams of Delft…

  • The rudderless city

    The rudderless city

    The capital of Flanders, Belgium and Europe, has ground to a halt in a quagmire of administrative impotence. Of all places it is the heart of Europe that is immune to the logic of progression and this, despite all the misery, makes it a fascinating city.

  • Ring Safari Amsterdam

    Ring Safari Amsterdam

    Want to get to know Amsterdam in all its diversity? Forget about the famous ring of canals and tour another ring: highway A10, the ring road that cuts through the city like a knife. Go on Ring Safari!

  • Between the mud and the model

    Between the mud and the model

    The Netherlands has always been the land of drawing boards, but too much legislation and the economic downturn have paralysed this top-down planning. What can we learn from shrinking Liverpool and the booming Balkans?

  • The back door

    The back door

    You can see the city from fifty kilometres away, where the road begins its descent to the plains. Actually, what you see are mainly its industrial envoys: the cement factory and the huge steel mills now belonging to U.S. Steel.