Program

New Towns for the 21st Century:
The Planned vs. The Unplanned City

Thursday 4th of June 2009 Reanimation of old New Towns
On June 4th the conference will explore existing cities and analyse the ways in which New Towns have been taken by real life after the original plans have been built, and the unplanned city and self-organised building activities have decidedly changed and shaped the resulting city. Also, lecturers will analyze how these ‘old' New Towns have been revitalized and regenerated in recent years and how the unplanned urban culture and inhabitants are included in this reanimation.

Plenary Session
Wolfgang Kil (Germany)
Normalisation of planned communities

Urban Think Tank (Venezuela/USA)
Rules and strategies of the informal city

Afternoon Session I, After the communist system
Ana Dzokic & Marc Neelen (NL/Serbia)
The Newest Belgrade

Andrey Ivanov (Russia)
The city of Tolyatti as a socio-urban phenomenon

Jason Lee (Canada, NL, China)
Shanghai Luxuryspace

Afternoon Session II, Western (post)planning
Deni Ruggeri (USA)
The new town of Zingonia: Death and Life of a Modernist Utopia

Signe Sophie Bøggild & Marie Bruun-Yde (Denmark)
The New Town and the Freetown in Copenhagen

Anubhav Gupta & Madhu C. Dutta Koehler (UK/USA/India)
New Delhi, Planned Capital City vs. Unplanned Capital City

Juval Portugali (Israel)
On the boundaries of self-organization: Almere

Late afternoon optional program
Bike excursion 'Almere Beyond the Plan' with artists Klaar van der Lippe & Bart Stuart
or
City centre walking tour
or
Movie program with documentaries (Caracas, WiMBY!) and feature film (Gregory's Girl).

Dinner (optional) at restaurant Waterfront (E 35,-).

Evening Public Lecture
Who's Afraid of Planning? Adaptation and Flexibility in the New Town.
The public lecture evening ‘Who's afraid of Planning?' is about flexibility and adaptation in architecture and urban design. Is it possible to design a New Town in a flexible way? Can architecture be adaptive after the construction of the rigid master plan?

Anne Lacaton (Lacaton & Vassal Architects, Paris) on regeneration scenario's for modernist highrises.
Sam Jacob (FAT Architects, London) on the Heerlijkheid Hoogvliet, Rotterdam.
Jord den Hollander (architect / movie maker, Rotterdam) premiere of movie on urban life in Tema (Ghana).

This is a public lecture and free of charge.

Friday 5th of June 2009 Anticipation of new New Towns
On June 5th the conference aims to acquire lessons for the future. This will be accomplished by speculating on how the planning of New Towns in the 21st Century can anticipate unplanned activities, be responsive to inhabitants' input and to unexpected changes in political, economic or cultural context, thereby enriching both the planning profession and the city itself.

Plenary session:
Margaret Crawford (USA)
Everyday urbanism

Claudio Acioly (Kenya, Brazil)
Informal Settlements & Brasilia

Afternoon Session I, Techniques, Analyses & New Methods:
Marco Broekman (& Bart Brands - Karres en Brands)
The beauty of the unexpected: 10 statements about ‘the Planned vs. the Unplanned city'

Jing Zhou & Hein de Haan (China/NL)
Building by Registering, a tailor-made method of housing development: Beijing-Amsterdam

Pu Hao (China/NL)
A GIS Based Analysis of Unplanned Urban Development in Shenzhen

Indy Johar & Joost Beunderman (UK/NL)
Stress testing the ecology of New Towns

Joost van den Hoek (NL)
The MXI (mixed use index) as planning tool for New Towns in the 21st century

Bart Goldhoorn (NL/Russia)
Standardized urban planning: Russia

Afternoon Session II, Agents, Tools & the Economy:
Jörg Stollmann (Germany)
Build it yourself tools Sao Paulo, Addis Abeba

Ekim Tan (Turkey/NL)
Inhabitants as agents in Istanbul & Almere

Kaveh Shafiei (UK/Iran)
The fragmented morphology of spontaneous settlements and their emergent spatial core: Zahedan (Iran) and Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)

Tahl Kaminer (NL/UK/Israel)
City and Society: The Keynesian New Town and the Resurrection of Neoclassical Capitalism

Peter Götsch (Germany)
Private New Towns in Sao Paulo The AlphaVille-Tamboré urban cluster in São Paulo? a NeoTown between planning and self-organisation

Wouter Vanstiphout (NL)
New Towns in the era of privatization

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