4th September 2017 − Our employee Mateo Gudić participated in the International Summer School of Sustainable Urban Planning “Making the Metropolis – Exploring Interdisciplinary Approaches in Metropolitan Design Engineering” organized by Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Delft Delta, Infrastructure & Mobility Initiative (DIMI), International Forum on Urbanism (IFOU) and the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS), which took place from 22 to 30 August in the Dutch city of Delft.
The school was attended by students and young professionals from different professions (architects, urbanists, sociologists, landscape architects, traffic scientists, environmental engineers, economists …) from all over the world. The main topics of the school were the Connected City, the Vital City and the Circular City, according to which the participants were divided into interdisciplinary and intercultural working groups. The school consisted of theoretical lectures, practical and field work.
The main goal was to plan the development of a large “brownfield” area in the northwest of the city of Amsterdam called Haven-Stadt, located in the wider surroundings of the Sloterdijk district, where construction of mostly business content is currently underway. The city in this area plans to build around 70,000 residential units over a longer period of time and create about 50,000 new jobs while respecting the most up-to-date principles of ecological sustainability and social responsibility. This applies in particular to the areas of mobility, construction and waste management – densification of housing, destimulation of car transport, development of public transport networks, pedestrian and cycling trails, green construction and green areas, a new waste management system as well as all the necessary public content for mixed population (desegregation). Field trips were organized under expert guidance, and final presentations of the working groups were presented to experts and representatives of the City of Amsterdam at the AMS Institute in Amsterdam.
More information: http://www.ams-institute.org/making-the-metropolis/
