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RECENT Recent activities of Urban Progress include: Livable Cities - Urban Planning Advisory Team for Isocarp (2010): Luc Vrolijks participated in an Urban Planning Advisory Team (UPAT) discussing the long term challenges of livable cities. The team met in Singapore for an intensive week of discussion and evaluation of livability requirements for urban development and regeneration. The UPAT's client was the Livable Cities Think Tank of the Philips Center for Health and Well-being. The final report of the team is available for download. download Livable Cities Report link to Philips Center for Health and Wellbeing Brooklyn-Rotterdam Waterfront Exchange (2010): Luc Vrolijks contributed to a three day strategic design workshop on the Red Hook and Sunset Park parts of the Brooklyn waterfront. The workshop was organized by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and was held in New York in April 2010. Luc helped develop the economic proposition for the area, a proposal that was based on Rotterdam's Stadshaven concept with 'cleantech' as the key economic driver. The workshop findings were summarized in a newspaper, which is available for download. The exchange team is currently working to elaborate four pilot projects that will be implemented in 2011-2012. download Brooklyn-Rotterdam Exchange Newspaper
Growing Safe - design study for New York's Lower Bay (2010): Urban Progress (Luc Vrolijks and Ashley Spatafore) built on earlier design studies to elaborate a 'speculative design' for New York's Lower Bay. ‘Growing Safe’ proposes to make New York safe by transforming its Lower Bay into a safety valve for the city. Over the next half century, the rubble from obsolete buildings, the excavated materials from new metro lines and other underground structures, and the redistribution of sands in the Hudson basin, are deployed to enhance the safety of the city. New dams, levees, islands, marshlands and coastal dunes are formed through a constant and gradual process, using the resources that the city itself delivers. Growing Safe was submitted to the Resilient City 2010 Competition, where it was one of the finalists. download Growing Safe design study link to Resilient City Design Competition
Build a Better Burb - Design Competition (2010): an Urban Progress team consisting of Luc Vrolijks, Ashley Spatafore and Lee Altman delivered an entry for the Build a Better Burb design competition. The entry proposed an 'added value regeneration' strategy for Long Island's ailing town centers. Depending on the location, the added value strategy focused on 'green technology retrofit', 'ecotourism' or 'aging comfortably'. New Orleans - Dutch Dialogues III (2010): The “Dutch Dialogues” workshops are the outgrowth of extended interactions between Dutch engineers, urban designers, landscape architects, city planners and soils/hydrology experts and, primarily, their Louisiana counterparts. David Waggonner, a local New Orleans architect, initiated this dialogue with Dale Morris, of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington, DC, and the American Planning Association. Luc Vrolijks participated in the third Dutch Dialogue workshop held in April 2010. He contributed to the the City Park redesign, aiming to improve its water management and strengthen its connections to the surrounding neighborhoods. link to Dutch Dialogue website download APA's Planning Magazine article Tempelhof Berlin - design competition (2010): Urban Progress contributed to the design competition proposal for the Tempelhof Airfield in Berlin. The team was led by Strootman Landscape Architects of Amsterdam. The design proposed a 'canyon park' and the innovative re-use of the landing strips and the airfield's main building; link to Strootman Landscape Architects
Forum der Regio's - presentation (2010): As a follow-up to Urban Progress' study of five City Climate Plans, Luc Vrolijks presented a comparison between US climate plans and Dutch city regions to the Netherlands Forum of City Regions. download presentation (in Dutch) link to Forum Stedelijke Regio's (in Dutch)
Amsterdam Academy of Architecture - invited lecture (2010): Luc Vrolijks presented a lecture on the role of design in urban strategy. He demonstrated the wide range of roles that plans can potentially play in urban transformation. The lecture was part of a series organised by Bart Cosijn of Urban Dialogue |