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New Town Heritage: Exploring the Boundaries Seminar – report
17 April 2018
On the 22nd and the 23rd of March 2018 the International New Town Institute in Rotterdam hosted the New Town Heritage: Exploring the Boundaries seminar. This two-day seminar discussed the future of New Towns and New Town history in one (...)




New Towns Heritage:
Exploring Boundaries
8 February 2018
The International New Town Institute (INTI) and the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) have the pleasure of inviting you to our upcoming seminar “New Towns Heritage: Exploring Boundaries”. The seminar is funded by the AHRC as part of (...)




INTI’s exhibition at the Biennale in Shenzhen presents the results of urban planning workshops in Guangming
21 December 2017
INTI’s exhibition “Checklist or Reality Check? Research by design in Guangming New Town” will open on December 23 at the seventh Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture (UABB) in China, which is themed “Cities Grow in Difference”. Curated (...)




“Nova Caximba”: new planning strategy for Curitiba’s informal settlement
21 December 2017
INTI was in Curitiba, Brazil during December 4-8 for a New Town Lab that developed a future scenario for the city’s southern informal settlement Caximba. Curitiba, a middle-sized city located in the south of Brazil, is known as a textbook (...)




How Milton Keynes (UK) is accommodating its growing migrant population
21 December 2017
During November 22-23, INTI was in Milton Keynes for the first of five meetings as part of the New Towns Arrival Cities project. Initiated as a platform for New Towns to learn from each other’s experience with accommodating rapidly growing and (...)




Save the date!
New Towns | Arrival Cities
November 23 in Milton Keynes
31 October 2017
How can the cultural diversity of New Towns be positively reflected in the city’s policies, urbanism and identity? For urban strategists, designers, residents, policy makers and students This public event consists of a full day of seminars (...)




The Making Of The Clay Oven in Alamar that survived Irma
11 October 2017
While in the Netherlands and Western Europe we are slowly developing a participatory approach to the city, in the New Town Alamar (Havana, Cuba) more than 100.000 people already live in self-built apartment blocks since the 70’s. Also 95% of (...)




Alamar Adalante!
11 July 2017
Alamar is a satellite city 10 kilometers to the east of Havana built in the 70s by communist Micro Brigades. There are approximately 100,000 people living in identical concrete flats, surrounded by ample green space. Outside of Cuba, Alamar (...)




UITNODIGING
Next Vinex?
9 May 2017
Het International New Town Institute (INTI), nai010 uitgevers en de Gemeente Rotterdam nodigen u uit voor de boekpresentatie van ‘Vinexmensen. Vinexwijken vandaag en verder’. Vinexmensen wonen in Vinexwijken – woonwijken die in de jaren (...)




From West to East & vice versa:
Prato and Shenzhen
8 May 2017
Migrants as drivers of change and socio-economic improvement The Italian city of Prato, located near Florence (IT) houses one of the biggest Chinatowns in Europe. Historically known as the manufacturing hub for the ‘Made in Italy’ label, (...)




‘Making Cities Together: The City We Need, through Safe, Inclusive and Accessible Public Spaces’
25 April 2017
The ‘Making Cities Together’ Urban Thinkers Campus will focus on the implementation of public spaces through participatory urban processes, like placemaking. Good quality public spaces are excellent starting points for improving the standards (...)




Open call: New Town Lab Alamar (Cuba) 2017
4 April 2017
>> Click here for the Open call: Summer Workshop "Building, Cooking, Eating" in Alamar (Cuba) September 2017 The International New Town Institute (INTI) is pleased to announce an Open Call for participation in the New Town Lab (a rapid (...)




Why Milton Keynes?
7 March 2017
MILTON KEYNES, a New Town of around 260,000 people some 50 miles from London, is famous for its American-style road grid and its high-modernist shopping mall. But this place, also known as pleasant but dull, has become a lot more colourful in (...)




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The International New Town Day 2017
New Towns as Cities of Comings and Goings
6 March 2017
In the light of the present challenges posed - worldwide - by migration, INTI’s annual conference will this year examine New Towns as Cities of Comings and Goings: what is their identity, diversity and culture as places where people migrate to (...)




Newsletter February 2017
14 February 2017
> 200+ New Towns in Africa added to the INTI database! < Africa is no longer the rural continent many people think it is. On the contrary: it is the fastest urbanizing continent in the world. Chinese, Korean, Singaporean firms, American, (...)