The City of Tilburg seeks opportunities in the combination of accommodating its growth and reactivating urban life in peripheral postwar neighborhoods. The aim is to attract and retain residents, in particular young generations, to improve the socioeconomic status, to diversify the composition of population and to stimulate healthy and productive suburban living. Densification is part…
The City of Breda seeks opportunity to develop large-scale urban area within the city border and close to the historical center. The ambition is to make Breda a highly urbanized, international, and connected city by 2040. The housing challenge and anticipating climate change in ‘t Zoet serve as a lever to address the challenges of…
From the perspective of Breda, Schorsmolen presents an opportunity to transform a fragmented urban fabric into a vibrant and cohesive neighborhood. The vision is to create a mixed-use, socially inclusive, and sustainable neighborhood that celebrates its diversity and history. To achieve this, local housing corporations can play a crucial role in testing and implementing new…
The City of Tilburg seeks opportunities to accommodate its growth in the existing city. Densification of urban voids, in particular the ones near a public transport hub, with a strategic position in the city are a part of this strategy. This type of development is ideally suited to catalyze new interaction milieus, since it offers the…
The City of Etten-Leur seeks opportunities in the combination of accommodating its growth and reactivating urban life in the shopping center. The aim is to redevelop the large consumption-only shopping experience to a more mix-use locally rooted experience which will become a cozy “Central living-room” for everyone, embedded in existing historical character of Etten-Leur. Densification…
Waalwijk is fastest growing city in all of Brabant. This is a great incentive to facilitate the further development of companies in direct surroundings. This quantitative and qualitative leap requires that Waalwijk is an integral part of the larger urban network with good regional connections. Waalwijk urgently needs to accommodate its growth and establish a…
Bart van der Vossen (NL)Directeur Ruimte at Gemeente Utrecht, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands (https://bartvandervossen.nl)Don Murphy (NL)Founder VMX Architects, Supervisor Schiphol Municipality of Amsterdam and Eindhoven (http://www.vmxarchitects.nl)François Chas (FR)NP2F Architects, Paris (http://www.np2f.com)Johan de Wachter (BE/NL)Founding partner at 2DVW Architecten, Owner at JDWA, Associate professor KTU (LT) (https://jdwa.nl)Martin Sobota (DE/NL)Architect, Founding Partner CITYFÖRSTER, Rotterdam (http://www.cityfoerster.net)Marieke Kums (NL)Founder…