
Beyond current building practice
BEYOND PEAK INDIFFERENCE #1 – I am currently organizing moderating a conversation series “Beyond Peak Indifference” which puts climate change
For almost a quarter of a century, I have been working in Shenzhen. In that time, the city has been growing from around 8 million to more than 20 million inhabitants. In my talk at the 2014 New Town Day, I outline the achievements and the deficits of the planning system and how urban planners can find ways to help that.
The international new town day. organized by the International New Town Institute INTI was the first occasion to show this.

BEYOND PEAK INDIFFERENCE #1 – I am currently organizing moderating a conversation series “Beyond Peak Indifference” which puts climate change

The day Donald Trump was elected, I was attending the World Urban Forum in Cairo. Contrary to what many of

BEYOND PEAK INDIFFERENCE #2 – In the last 250 years since the start of the industrial revolution, mankind has doubled

I really like the German term ‘Zeitenwende’ that can be translated as turning point but with the connotation that radical,

Het maakt niet uit waar je tegenwoordig heen gaat, Amsterdam,

Why Saudi Arabia’s next phase of urban growth depends less

Last week I stumbled across a headline in Dutch media.

Anyone who has spent enough time in architecture, urban planning,