Tag: infrastructuur
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Waarom doen we het?
Gelezen in Rooilijn nr. 5, 2016: Het laatste themanummer van dit jaar van het Amsterdamse planologentijdschrift Rooilijn is gewijd aan ‘Het institutionele perspectief’ van de ruimtelijke planning. Aanleiding is het afscheid van Willem Salet als hoogleraar Stedelijke en Regionale Planning aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. De socioloog Salet bezette de leerstoel van 1995 tot…
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Ruimte genoeg
Gelezen in Het Parool van 28 november 2016: Was het een grap? Vorige week maandag kopte Het Parool: “Minister Schultz: ‘Heel veel ruimte voor meer asfalt’.” De Minister van Infrastructuur, Melanie Schultz van Haegen (VVD) werd door de Amsterdamse krant aan de tand gevoeld over de files. Ze groeien weer, en hoe. Vooral rond…
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Car-free Amsterdam
Read in Climate Home of 23 June 2016: Amsterdam is struggling with its crowdedness and popularity, people think the city centre is too busy. Of course they are right. They were never used to live in an urban condition. Politicians try to reduce tourism now, distribute activities, the mayor even proposes to move people to…
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Being successful
Read in The Washington Post of 31 March 2015: One of the questions the students, following the course on Cities in Transition at the University of Amsterdam, were asked was: by comparing Moscow with Istanbul, what are the similarities and what the striking differences? Similar is the heavy traffic congestion, for sure. Moscovites complain…
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Next mobility
Read in ‘Nieuwe mobiliteit’ (New Mobility) (2015) of Arie Bleijenberg: Reveiling long term trends. Important news. They sent me a copy of ‘Nieuwe Mobiliteit na het autotijdperk’ (New Mobility After the Car Based Era), written by Arie Bleijenberg, TNO’s Business Director Infrastructure in Delft. They thought I would like it. Sure I do. It’s exactly…
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Mini-Manhattan
Read on Building.co.uk of 2 December 2014: Last week a television team from London visited Amsterdam. They were doing research on land development in the Bijlmer district, Amsterdam Southeast. I met them in the Ajax Arena stadium. Why? London is planning a huge brownfield development in Old Oak, which is a poor neighborhood in…
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On the road
Heard in B.Amsterdam, Amsterdam Slotervaart, on 4 June 2015: The evaluation of the Highspeed train public tender by the Dutch politicians has ended last week. What a disaster. Big mistakes were made. Market failures. Technical failures. The Dutch state failed. Still missing those fast trains in The Netherlands. More lucky we are on the road.…
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Happy tunnel
Seen in Amsterdam Bijlmermeer on 5 June 2015: This August the builders will start their amazing construction works. The Gaasperdammerweg – a six lane freeway cutting throug the Bijlmermeer – will be enlarged and tunneled. Roy Berents, an urban planner of the city of Amsterdam, gave a lecture on the engineering of this project…
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Eind goed al goed
Gelezen in NRC Handelsblad van 27 november 2014: Terug uit Seoul, Korea, vis ik in de Amsterdamse Stopera een brochure uit de bak over ‘Zuidasdok. Ruimtelijke plannen in vogelvlucht’. De eerste vetgedrukte zin luidt: “Zuidasdok is een project om de bereikbaarheid van de Amsterdamse Zuidas en het noordelijk deel van de Randstad in de toekomst…