An illustrated monograph celebrating the twenty-year journey of one of Scandinavia's most renowned urban landscape architects.

From Maartensdijk to Meerkerk and from Abcoude to Zoeterwoude: the Green Heart is a vast rural area surrounded by the largest Dutch cities. The Green Heart is home to seven hundred thousand people, surrounded by seven million more. The contrast in lifestyles is sometimes stark – city and countryside overlap, and it is this overlap that has brought prosperity to the Dutch Delta for four centuries. For city dwellers, the landscape of the Green Heart is a weekend destination; for residents, it...

Bij het inrichten van de Nederlandse ruimte komen ruimtelijke planners en infrastructuurplanners elkaar veelvuldig tegen. Ruimtelijke ordening en transportplanning hebben veel met elkaar te maken. Toch zijn de relaties tussen beide plannerswerelden niet eerder beschreven.

Dit boek gaat over de ontmoeting tussen de builders uit de infrastructuurwereld en de planners, die de ruimte wilden ordenen. Beschreven wordt hoe sinds de jaren 1920 de professionalisering van builders en planners verliep, ...

How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgent as we face diminishing fossil-fuel resources and the effects of a changing climate while global cities continue to compete to be the most vibrant centres of culture, knowledge, and finance. Jan Gehl has been examining this question since the 1960s, when few urban designers or planners were thinking about designing cities for people. But given th...

A critical exploration of global, contemporary urban politics in a geographical context.