Trends in Urban Design: Insights for the Future Urban Professional

Contents
About the Editors
Chapter 1: Future Talks
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 The Situation Is Dire, But Is This Felt?
	1.3 Idealism and Realism
	1.4 Results
		1.4.1 Urgent Issues and Themes
		1.4.2 Processes, Methods, and Approaches
			1.4.2.1 Design Studio ‘Apocalypse Now’
			1.4.2.2 Teaching the Region
			1.4.2.3 Landscape-Driven Design
			1.4.2.4 National Area-Development
			1.4.2.5 Through Scales, Times, and Dimensions
			1.4.2.6 Indigenous Knowledge and Traditions
			1.4.2.7 Socially Driven Urban Development
			1.4.2.8 Economic Mechanisms
			1.4.2.9 Materials and Raw Materials
		1.4.3 Competences and Skills
	1.5 Application in the Region North-Holland
	1.6 Designing a Regional Studio
	1.7 Methodology
	References
Chapter 2: Oral Learning
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Learn to Love the Ocean
	2.3 Oral Teaching and Learning
	2.4 Zero-Carbon in 2040
	2.5 Time
	References
Chapter 3: Teaching the Region
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 The Urgency
	3.3 The City Is Not Dead
	3.4 Define the Brief
	3.5 To Control or Not to Control?
	3.6 Teach a Region
	3.7 Teaching by Surprise
	3.8 Taking Pilots to the Next Level
	References
Chapter 4: Shaping Urgencies
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Urgency
	4.3 Understanding Connections
	4.4 What Is Our Task?
	4.5 Coastal Delta
	4.6 Climate Urgency
	4.7 Designing the Urgency
	4.8 To Frans
	4.9 Friends of
	References
Chapter 5: Thinking Along
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Biodiversity
	5.3 Climate
	5.4 Drinking Water
	5.5 Agriculture
	5.6 Peat
	5.7 City
	5.8 Energy
	5.9 Solving Capacity
	5.10 Predictive Capacity
	5.11 Good Time
	References
Chapter 6: Beyond Pilots
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Craftsmanship and Urgencies
	6.3 Red Engine
	6.4 Shared Responsibility
	6.5 Reflection
	6.6 The Future of Project Development
	6.7 Forum and Little C
	References
Chapter 7: Thinking in Improbabilities
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 It’s Going to Get Busy
	7.3 Systems Thinking vs. Living Environment
	7.4 Money Is Not the Problem
	7.5 Black Swans
	7.6 Scenarios Inside Out
	References
Chapter 8: Waterlander
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Temptation
	8.3 Letting Nature Do the Work
	8.4 Sea Level
	8.5 Snowball Effect
	8.6 Win-Win
	8.7 Blissful Sobriety
	8.8 It Will Not Always Be Like This
	References
Chapter 9: Design for Emergencies
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 “In Times of Emergency, Let Nature Rule”
	9.3 Blurring Disciplines
	9.4 Learning from Landscape
	9.5 Climate Literacy
	9.6 Teach the Challenge
	9.7 Manchester Man
	9.8 Groningen and Shenzhen
	References
Chapter 10: In Solidarity
	10.1 Introduction
	10.2 Embrace the New Landscape
	10.3 Shrugging
	10.4 Availability
	10.5 To the Optician for a Vision?
	10.6 Good Ancestor
	10.7 Area Deputies
	10.8 One Big Table
	References
Chapter 11: From Home
	11.1 Introduction
	11.2 Nature Policy Is Waiting to Be Re-enriched
	11.3 A Shift in Context
	11.4 Localization
	11.5 Walking Outside
	11.6 Freedom of Choice
	References
Chapter 12: It’s the Stupid Economy!
	12.1 Introduction
	12.2 Aim
	12.3 Thinking a Bit More About Resilience
	12.4 An Emergency of Weaknesses and Prospects
	12.5 The Operating Conditions
	12.6 The Challenges for Design Teaching
	12.7 The Professional Citizen
	12.8 Delusion
	12.9 Questioning the Brief
	12.10 City as a System Not as a Collection of Objects – Assemblage Theory
	12.11 Flexibility, Multiuse
	12.12 Hope and Values
	References
Chapter 13: Waterman
	13.1 Introduction
	13.2 Together and Quick
	13.3 Flooding
	13.4 Thirst
	13.5 All Year the Flax-Dam Festered
	13.6 Salty Tongues
	13.7 NL DNA
	13.8 Space on the Long Term
	13.9 Development Tasks
	References
Chapter 14: Cultivating Urgencies
	14.1 Introduction
	14.2 The Confluence
	14.3 Triplet
	14.4 Cultivating Urgencies
	14.5 Self-Conscious Region
	14.6 Jewels
	14.7 Faster, Nicer, Cheaper
	14.8 Pixel Planet
	References
Chapter 15: EnergyRich
	15.1 Introduction
	15.2 Affordability and Ambitions
	15.3 Leading Role
	15.4 Energy-Neutral
	15.5 Support
	15.6 Upscale in Thinking
	15.7 Unequivocally Sustainable
	15.8 Wouldn’t It Be Nice…
	References
Chapter 16: Elusive City
	16.1 Introduction
	16.2 Elusiveness
	16.3 Vocality
	16.4 Public Space
	16.5 More Space for Water
	16.6 Thinking in Three Dimensions
	16.7 Content and Perspective
	16.8 Designing with Nondesigners
	References
Chapter 17: Shaping Communities
	17.1 Introduction
	17.2 Deposit
	17.3 From Region to Home
	17.4 Systems Thinking in Four Dimensions
	17.5 Does Architecture Still Belong to the Architect?
	17.6 Space and Matter
	17.7 Studio for Designing Research
	17.8 Building of Communities
	17.9 Master Builder
	References
Chapter 18: Thinking Freedom
	18.1 Introduction
	18.2 From Inhabiting to Living
	18.3 Reorienting the Process
	18.4 Optimism Against All Odds
	18.5 Financing It Is the Easy Part
	18.6 Free Thinking
	18.7 Oosterwold
	References
Chapter 19: Decultivating the Netherlands
	19.1 Introduction
	19.2 Climate as a Driving Force
	19.3 Reversed Engineering
	19.4 Nature-Rich Living
	19.5 Switch in Thinking
	19.6 Preventative Thinking
	19.7 Decultivating
	19.8 Advisor with a Smile
	References
Chapter 20: All Adaptive
	20.1 Introduction
	20.2 Climate Adaptation
	20.3 Every Project Adaptive
	20.4 Force and Temptation
	20.5 A New Way of Thinking
	20.6 When Are we Adaptive?
	20.7 Sustainable Land, Roads, and Waterways
	20.8 Environmental Management
	References
Chapter 21: We Learn from Our Mistakes
	21.1 Introduction
	21.2 Types of People
	21.3 Adapting = Surviving = Adapting
	21.4 Teaching from Practice
	21.5 Going Against the Norm
	21.6 Building with a Focus on Raw Materials
	21.7 Local Raw Materials
	21.8 Connecting Design Phases
	21.9 With an Open Wallet
	Reference
Chapter 22: Stuck
	22.1 Introduction
	22.2 Governance and Reality
	22.3 Rail and Infrastructure
	22.4 Intensities
	22.5 Planning and Design
	22.6 Anglo-Saxon or Rhineland Model
	22.7 Financial Roots
	22.8 A Better Life for Everyone
	Reference
Chapter 23: The Art of Improvisation
	23.1 Introduction
	23.2 Improvise, People!
	23.3 Government of Participants
	23.4 Inextricable Tangles
	23.5 Professional Pitfall
	23.6 Absorb Knowledge Quickly, Then Lots of Time for the Game of Participation
	23.7 Berlage Is the Key
	23.8 Two Study Specializations
	References
Chapter 24: Pride in Quality
	24.1 Introduction
	24.2 Social Value
	24.3 A Small Lament
	24.4 Enlightened Development
	24.5 Leading Role of the Government
	24.6 National Vision, Regional Program, Local Implementation
	24.7 Have Guts, Inspire, and Integrate
	24.8 Eem Valley City
	References
Chapter 25: Growth Means Life
	25.1 Introduction
	25.2 Investing in People
	25.3 Craftspeople and Free Thinkers
	25.4 Learning Through Investigating
	25.5 Turning Point
	25.6 Undividing
	25.7 Predicting with Data
	References
Chapter 26: The Future Is (Im)possible
	26.1 Introduction
	26.2 Looking Far into the Future Helps
	26.3 Research-Plan-Strategy
	26.4 The City as a Solution
	26.5 Programmatic Mixing and Intensification
	26.6 People in the Mix
	26.7 Disruptive Development
	26.8 Conditions
	26.9 Lab Rat
	26.10 Research by Design
	References
Index