INTI - International New Town Institute

Gateway Area Design Workshop, Shenzhen

Rachel Keeton — 2013-07-24T13:33:00Z

A group of 25 students and 6 tutors of the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design will visit Shenzhen from May 7 until May 10. They will participate in a three-day design workshop on the Gateway Area of Guangming New Town on May 7, 8 and 9 organized by INTI in close collaboration with the Shenzhen Center for Design and the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design. In the Gateway Area, a major elevated train station has already been executed, but lies isolated in the (...) - Expert meetings / frontpage-NNT, May 2013

Health Care in New Towns

Saskia Hulskes — 2013-07-20T10:46:00Z

An important aspect in the planning of a New Town is the planning of health care services. Many New Towns have a progressive attitude towards health care. In some New Towns, experiments are undertaken to organize health care in new and innovative ways. In some cases even a totally new health care system is developed from scratch. Because of this, New Towns provide great opportunities to learn and research the health care systems that are being developed in different regions around the (...) - Education / calendar, frontpage-INTI, May 2013

Learning from Zoetermeer

Rachel Keeton — 2013-07-04T08:52:00Z

In 1962 Zoetermeer was designated as the satellite "overspill" New Town of the city of Den Haag. Zoetermeer had to be compact, a green city with good infrastructure and a modern city center. The city's rapid development over the last 30 years has been less clear than the plans suggest. For some overview of the legislative history and in the current situation the International New Town Institute (INTI) and the city museum of Zoetermeer (Stadsmuseum Zoetermeer) are organizing the course (...) - Events / calendar, frontpage-INTI, May 2013

Course "NieuweStedenStudies"

Saskia Hulskes — 2013-06-11T08:52:00Z

NieuweStedenStudies (offered in Dutch) will search for the characteristics of the suburban city. What opportunities are there and how should we develop New Towns in the future? How can we organize and shape the physical restructuring? What social measures can stimulate a vital city? The two-day program starts with investigating the original ambitions, design and realization of the New Towns and examines how these aspects have taken shape over time. The course will focus especially on what (...) - Education / calendar, frontpage-INTI, May 2013

Young Heroes in New Towns

Rachel Keeton — 2013-05-28T10:26:00Z

On May 28, INTI is organizing the expert meeting “Jonge Helden in New Towns” (Young Heroes in New Towns) in collaboration with Platform31. The expert meeting marks the end of the experimental program Self-organization in New Towns, which has been carried out over the past year by Stuurgroep Experimenten Volkshuisvesting (now Platform31). You are welcome to participate. The expert meeting is about self-organization by young people in New Towns. We see that New Towns often fall short in the (...) - Events / calendar, frontpage-INTI, May 2013

Opening: Zoetermeer Utopia; Dreams of a City

Rachel Keeton — 2013-05-25T18:05:00Z

In 1962, the national government chose to expand the neighboring village of Zoetermeer to address the housing shortage of the Hague. The newly-appointed city planners quickly began designing a modern New Town. It was the first time in Netherlands that a city for 100,000 residents was put on paper. Zoetermeer was an experiment in which modern and progressive ideas about urban planning were processed. Zoetermeer's designers were famous urban planners and architects who already had experience (...) - Events / frontpage-INTI, May 2013

Architecture and the Built Environment in Shenzhen

Stephanie Wade — 2013-05-21T17:31:14Z

What I seek to do in my research is to identify the role architecture and the built environment play in forming the image and identity of Shenzhen. Through mental mapping, interviews and collecting the residents own images of the city I have begun to explore the cities identity. Modernity change and openness are all embraced by the majority of the respondents. Certain buildings are identified, although the general attitude to architecture is perhaps slightly (...) - University of Amsterdam

Redevelopment of Baishizhou urban village

Stephanie Wade — 2013-05-21T14:45:15Z

Urban villages, like Baishizhou in Shenshen, are informal settlements resulted by the flaws in the policy changes of the rural-to-urban land system: they are registered as rural land despite the fact that they are located within the city and its jurisdictional boundaries. To upgrade the city of Shenzhen, the government's new urban policies promote projects to redevelop urban villages. Baishizhou urban village is in the critical period of heated informal discussions between actors who have (...) - University of Amsterdam

Himachal to have five new satellite towns

Stephanie Wade — 2013-05-21T14:16:22Z

Around 72,000 applicants who are waiting for the allotment of plot or flat by Himachal Pradesh Housing and Urban Development Authority (HIMUDA) since 2010 have got a ray of hope as the state government has finally assured to fulfill its promise by identifying suitable land for the purpose. It was the dream to own a house in hill towns that people from across country had applied to HIMUDA scheme and had even deposited Rs 5000 in cash with the application but latter could not find the land to keep its promise.

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Congo to create "Lumumbaville" to honour assassinated PM

Stephanie Wade — 2013-05-21T14:08:02Z

Democratic Republic of Congo will create a new town named after Patrice Lumumba, its assassinated post-independence prime minister, the government said on Tuesday.

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Reuse of Former Factory Buildings

Stephanie Wade — 2013-05-21T13:49:22Z

Currently reuse of former factory buildings is not implemented on a large scale in Shenzhen. Most of the buildings will be demolished and replaced by higher density. In some districts the public facilities are lacking but the reuse exists mostly of creative industry. Reuse for public facilities or something else is difficult because of money; fragmented ownership; the characteristics of a specific building, and the demand for higher density. Nevertheless governmental aim is an expansion of (...) - University of Amsterdam

Work on three new towns underway

Stephanie Wade — 2013-05-21T12:54:55Z

Work is underway to establish three new townships in some remote areas says Deputy Permanent Secretary for Rural Development Peni Ratumaitavuki.

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New New Towns: Africa

Rachel Keeton — 2013-05-20T14:51:00Z

It is our pleasure to announce that INTI is expanding to new and exciting frontiers in 2013. Following the success of our New New Towns satellite programs in Chandigarh, India and Shenzhen, China, we are now setting up similar programs in Nairobi, Kenya, Accra, Ghana and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. The New New Towns program is an integrated approach to urban planning that engages locals in a participatory process through expert meetings and design workshops with international professionals, (...) - Events / frontpage-NNT, May 2013