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Ideal City Program: Updated October 6, 2008
Saturday October 11, 2008
Registration: 9:00 a.m. to noon, Hotel Apple Inn
Apple Inn Hotel, Amsterdam (near Van Gogh Museum) Koninginneweg 93 1075 CJ AMSTERDAM 0031 20 66278941 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it <mailto:i This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it >
Mobile Workshop #1 8 30 a.m. Walking Tour of Historic Amsterdam with Ruud van Soest of City Walks Leave Apple Inn at 8:00 a.m. Once you have seen Amsterdam by boat, you must walk it, too. We will walk through the old town of Amsterdam that was founded 700 years ago. We will see some of the oldest buildings, some of the most beautiful (according to architects) and some of the ugliest (according to votes in the local newspaper). We will follow the defensive walls and the monastery route of the old city, which is both interesting and amusing. We will see examples of Jewish, Buddhist, Catholic, Muslim, and Protestant places of worship. You will also see how the city was literally built on water, and the battleground of the riots of the1960's fighting to preserve the architecture and affordable housing against a planned highway through Amsterdam's city center. Ruud van Soest is a specialist in the history and architecture of Amsterdam and gives many walking tours to professionals.
11:00 a.m. Registration / Introductory Comments at the Apple Inn
Mobile Workshop #2 12:00 p.m. -leave Apple Inn for Architectural Boat Tour 12:30 p.m. Board the Holland International located across from the Hotel Victoria in front of Amsterdam Central Station. This is a unique tour because of the live tour guide who specializes in architecture and speaks English. Other trips are one hour with audio tours in four languages. This is an extended boat tour that goes for approximately 90 minutes. 3:00 p.m. Welcoming Remarks: John Gilderbloom, Conference Chair, University of Louisville Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods, Louisville, KY Amsterdam City Council members (invited) 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Making Cities better: 'Maarten van der Meer; Amsterdam City Council Stephen Roosa, Energy Systems Group-City Policies Energy Policy in Hot Areas. Manuel Aalbers: University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies University of Amsterdam Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt) Pieter Rings, Amsterdam urban sociologist
Sunday October 12th Morning session: Mobile Workshop 9:30 a.m. We will leave from the Apple Inn We will study how an abandoned factory was turned into a cultural park. This is featured in the book Westergasfabriek Culture Park: Transformation of a Former Industrial Site in Amsterdam by Olof Koefkebakker. The walking tour will be conducted by Pieter Rings; Tweede Helmersstraat 49-III 1054 CD Amsterdam; + 31 20 - 6182937 / email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Pieter studied with Professor Leon Deben at the University of Amsterdam and got a degree in urban sociology; he writes on urban policy and takes foreign students to important landmarks around the city. Additional websites of interest can be found at the Academy of Bouwkunst ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or with Artifax ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . We will have a snack and drink at Westergasfabriek Culture Park. After lunch, we will tour socialist housing known as the Amsterdam school. We will also visit the architecture museum which is nearby (Amsterdam School Movement information www.hetschip.nl). To get to the Westergasfabriek take bus 15 in the direction Station Sloterdijk. This bus leaves 4 times an hour at 14, 29, 44 and 59 past the hour. Get off at Bos en Lommerweg (approx 15 minutes after you get on, but ask the bus driver to let you know when you're there). When you get of the bus you will be on Bos-en-Lommerweg. Up ahead of you you will see an intersection (Bos en lommerweg with ruijterweg) cross this intersection and continue walking on bos en lommerweg until you reach the end, a T intersection with haarlemmerweg, turn right into haarlemerweg - a little further up you will find the park on your right hand side. We will meet in the large coffee house in Westergasbarriek Park. Total walking time allow 10 - 12 minutes. Lunch on your own Mobile Workshop #3 1:00pm Yellow Bike Tour of Amsterdam This will give us an overview of Amsterdam planning, historic preservation, housing, transportation (including a tour of the neighborhood where the conference is taking place). The yellow bike tour leaves promptly at 1:00 p.m.: http://www.yellowbike.nl/en This is fairly easy ride of about ten miles on flat surfaces. Later on, we will present a 26 mile tour of architecture and planning 3:30 p.m. We will also stop at the "Art Plein Spui-Amsterdam-http://www.artplein-spui.nl which is a great outdoor art festival of modern art. Art Plein Spui is in the heart of old Amsterdam near the beautiful Begijnhof and the Amsterdam Historical Museum. This outdoor festival is open in October every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mobile Workshop, 4:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m. Eastern Docklands at Ijburg featuring Hein de Haan, one of Amsterdam's most celebrated and honored architects (email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and phone 06-54243042), to discuss the good and bad aspects of architecture in Holland. Hein de Haan has built houses mainly on Amsterdam artificial islands. He is founder of the cooperative CASA architecture (www.casa-architecten.nl), and an associate professor at the faculty of architecture TU Delft and President of foundation "De Golf." This foundation organized the museum on the Amsterdam School movement (www.hetschip.nl). 2:00 p.m. A tour of the docklands-this is another example of an abandoned area that was once the center of drugs, homeless and violence. This entire area has been revitalized with a mixture of social and market housing. It also has done the development by using canals and is close to the center city.( visit of new developed districts at IJburg; information www.ijburg.nl; www.dro.amsterdam.nl; www.oostelijkhavengebied.nl; www.ijoevers.nl) Heine de Haan will also show you the experimental housing cooperative he helped design and develop, which is a kind of utopian vision of how to live in affordable housing with great design and views. Monday October 13th Participants can choose either a Mobile Workshop all day program in Rotterdam or another mobile program in Amsterdam Rotterdam: Social Policy, Planning and Design (Our longest day of the conference. We will leave from Apple Inn lobby at 7:15 a.m.) This is a one day tour of Rotterdam covering the housing experiments, urban renewal, design and preservation of the city. Note to cover costs of trains, bikes, speakers, and museum, we require a supplemental fee of $75 dollars. Architectural bike excursion Rotterdam, city of modern architecture We will cycle through the future of Rotterdam! This tour takes you past new building projects in Rotterdam, with the banks of the river Maas as the most vibrant locations. Visit sites such as the Lloyd quarter, Waterstad and the Kop van Zuid that give the city a whole new look. Because of harbor activities moving out of the city towards the sea, a lot of wonderful locations by the waterside became vacant. Former warehouses that were converted into attractive apartment buildings contrast wonderfully with new architecture and both help to create the new ‘places to be'. Included is a visit of the spectacular Cube House. Also, you will see the work of Rem Koolhaus, Piet Blom, Jo Coenon, Van Berkel & Bos, Adrian Geuze (West 8) and other great architects. Architectural walking tour Inner-city Rotterdam
The Inner city walk is very suitable as an introduction
with the architecture of Rotterdam.
You will get an overview of the constantly changing ideas about the lay out of Rotterdam. Included
is a visit of the spectacular Cube House. More than half a century of
labor has been put into the innovative and daring architecture of the city's
centre and still the inner city's development is in full motion. To get an even
better idea of this transformation we will also take you to pay visit to the
City Information centre, a visitor's centre for architecture, town-planning and
living in the city. Note:
Depending on demand, these bike and walking tours will be repeated in the afternoon.
Bike tour is mostly flat but you should be able to ride for about 5 miles-with
one steep incline on the Erasmus
Bridge. 12:00pm Lunch with Dr. Paul Stouten Dr. Paul Stouten is writing a book on urban regeneration and sustainable development will be with us for part of the day. Paul is an Assistant Professor with the technical university of Delft in the department of urbanism and is Chair of Urban Revitalization and Management. He also made a film on social housing experiments in the 1920's and the modernization of that process. Telephone 0031-6-247-93241 / 015-2783872 Afternoon- Conference attendees may spend the afternoon at the National Architecture Institute to learn about the history of planning, architecture and politics. You might also want to see the Sonneveld House, located next door to the NAI (Netherlands Architecture Institute) in Rotterdam. This house, according to the website, is a monument of Dutch Functionalist architecture, and it has been restored and opened to the public as an annex of the NAI in 2001. The site contains detailed information about this unique building, such as its history, inhabitants, and restoration, including original drawings, photographs and film footage. The site also offers a virtual tour of the house and information on how to visit the actual house. We also might visit the headquarters of Rem Koolhaus as well. http://www.nai.nl/e/visitors/tours_gal3.html If you choose to stay in Amsterdam, you can do the following 10:00 a.m. Amsterdam School of Achitecture includes Museum To get to the Amsterdam School head towards Westergasfabriek take bus 15 in the direction Station Sloterdijk. This bus leaves 4 times an hour at 14, 29, 44 and 59 past the hour. Get off at Bos en Lommerweg (approx 15 minutes after you get on, but ask the bus driver to let you know when you're there). When you get of the bus you will be on Bos-en-Lommerweg. Up ahead of you you will see an intersection (Bos en lommerweg with ruijterweg) cross this intersection and continue walking on bos en lommerweg until you reach the end, a T intersection with haarlemmerweg, turn right into haarlemerweg - a little further up you will find th t the park on your right hand side. Total walking t outside the Watergasfabriek. We will see the museum, eat at the the Amstedam School. 1:00 p.m. Mobile Workshop at the Zuiderkerk Information Centre (we will leave from Apple Inn lobby at 1:00 p.m. the program starts at 2:00 p.m.) The Zuiderkerk is an information centre for the department of physical planning of Amsterdam. All the plans and research that is published by this department is available at the Zuiderkerk for all civilians. You will get to see all the major projects planned through 2020. For more information, you can visit their website: http://zuiderkerk.amsterdam.nl Unfortunately, this website is in Dutch, but it gives an idea of what projects are planned for the next 15 years. The department of physical planning thinks that interested (foreign) groups should be professionally informed about the physical developments in Amsterdam. Information Centre at the Zuiderkerk This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it We will meet up with Frans Dubbeldam who is a top planner for the City of Amsterdam. Directions: To get from your hotel to our information centre, you'll need to catch tram number 2 in the direction of Central Station. Get off at the stop: Dam (Dam Square). You're then behind the Royal Palace. Walk to the front of the palace: that's Dam Square. Cross the square and walk into the street on the right of Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky. The name of that street is "Damstraat/Nieuwe Hoogstraat". The church is sited at the end of that street, on the right hand side. (You'll have to enter a little gate at the end of the street to reach the church). You can't miss it: it's a tall church. It's a 5 to 10 minutes walk. 2:30 p.m. ARCAM Architecture Building-short walking distance. from the Zuiderkerk. The tour will begin at the ARCAM Architecture and Research Building, located by the historic boat museum and the Piano designed building for children. The program is limited to 60 persons, so you must register and signup first. Many consider this one of the best architectural buildings in Amsterdam. - Directions: Go to Central station walk 15 minutes along waterfront to ARCAM it is near the famous Renzo Piano, the NEMO Building or the Historic Ship Museum or take bus 22 from Central Station and get off at ARCAM or look at the directions on . This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Telephone: 02006204878 / Fax 020-638-5598
Tuesday October 14th 9:00 a.m. meeting at City Hall with Council members Tentative. Stadhuis Amsterdam Kamer 2227 Amstel 1 / Postbus 202 1000 AE Amsterdam Tel 020-5523413 Mob 06-18391953 Fax 020-5523590 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it 11:00 a.m. Morning Panel Session What works in the Ideal City Dikmen Bezmez, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey, Disabled Istanbulites and their Rights to the City Issues and Problems Debra Lam, ARUP Sustainability consulting, Sustainable Resettlement for the Ideal City Thom Hunt, City Planner, Windsor, Ontario, Canada The Quest for the Ideal City
Victor Silva, Aalborg University, Denmark, In Search of the Ideal City: Rio De Janerio
2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Dreaming about the Ideal City Leonie Janssen-Jansen, University of Amsterdam, "Ideal House in Neighborhoods: Examples from the Neterlands Josh Ambrosius, John Gilderbloom, and Matt Hanka, University of Louisville, "Back to Black...and Green: Contemporary Housing Dynamics in a Medium Size U.S. City"
Paul Stouten, Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urbanism, Delft University of Technology Double Dutch: Urban Regeneration Lessons from the Past and the Future"
Brenda Bratton Blom and Joseph F. Pierce, University of Maryland, School of Law, Whose Ideal City? Baltimore Engages the Challenges of Diversity and Engagement of Cultures and Visions in Urban Redevelopment Activities 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Zeynep Ozturk, Arel University, Istanbul,Turkey, Aiming the Ideal City John Pucher, Rutgers University and Ralph Buehler Virginia Tech-Biking for Better Living Mirela Newman, Southern Connecticut State University, Could Almere New City Be Viewed as An Ideal City and Why? Creative Urban Form and Planning in the Netherlands Debra Lam, ARUP Sustainability consulting, Sustainable Resettlement for the Ideal City
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