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Become a member of the INTImi

Become a member of the INTImi and participate in our international network of professionals and scholars all over the world. Become state of the art informed on New Town developments worldwide during international conferences, lectures, network meetings, excursions and the online New Town Database. As well as being a direct source of quality information, it is also an opportunity to meet fellow professionals, establish valuable contacts and share experiences.

INTImi benefits
- Invitations to annual network meetings.
- Access to the New Town Database and presentations.
- Discount on publications.
- Discount on excursions, symposiums and conferences.
- Access to the INTI library.
- Priority registration on INTI events.


INTImi membership categories

INTI distinguishes five categories of memberships and annual fees:
Student: 25 EUR (incl. VAT).
Individual: 50 EUR (incl. VAT).
Public/Non-Profit: 250 EUR (excl. VAT).
Corporate: 500 EUR (excl. VAT).
Special INTImi: 2500 EUR (excl. VAT).


Exclusive Privileges for members of the INTImi

By joining the INTImi you are entering an international network of high-level urban development professionals and researchers, which will facilitate your decision-making and problem-solving and will give you access to the most useful contacts, knowledge and know-how in your field.

In addition INTImi-membership benefits include considerable discounts to all INTI-activities, INTI-excursions and INTI-publications, access to the online New Town database and priority participation in events.

For specific projects INTI is collaborating with partners. Partners enjoy visibility on events and in the communication to high-level professionals and a wide audience in both international and local media.

INTI aims at studying, influencing and improving New Towns worldwide by researching their development and exchanging experience, knowledge and know-how within a vast international network of high-level professionals.


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Please choose your preferred membership, register online and receive a welcome gift.


Special INTImi

Special INTImi is a exclusive group of close friends of INTI. Special INTImi membership is personal. Members can be executives and board members of a wide variety of organizations such as development organizations, financial organizations, urban planning offices, housing corporations, universities, local and national governments, management and consultancy firms, contractors, research institutes, engineering firms, architectural offices and private persons.
Special INTImi are benefactors of INTI. At the same time they form a collective of professional knowledge and experience that is embedding INTI into daily practice.

A wide variety of topics related to New Town development is being reviewed, presented and discussed in an informal and exclusive setting twice a year. By inviting international experts on relevant topics, INTI makes the state of the art knowledge available, thereby creating access to innovation for the Special INTImi and their organizations.
Special INTImi members are also invited to exclusive events at the international conferences of INTI, previews of exhibitions, excursions and small scale expert meetings. Special INTImi enjoy priority seating at lectures and conferences.

Special INTImi membes are valuable contacts and a source of inspiration to both INTI and each other. By reflecting on relevant topics they influence the strategic agenda of INTI.

For more information please contact intimi@newtowninstitute.org



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A small recap

What is INTI?
INTI is the International New Town Institute, a scientific research institute studying the past, present and future of New Towns worldwide. New Towns are all cities built from scratch according to a master plan: from Washington DC in the USA to Marne-la- Vallee near Paris in France. From Songjiang near Shanghai in China to Zoetermeer near The Hague in the Netherlands. INTI develops and exchanges state of the art knowledge on the development, economy, planning, socio-demographics and culture of New Towns. INTI’s research partners include the Dutch Delft University of Technology and the University of Amsterdam and an increasing number of international universities and institutions outside the Netherlands.

What is a New Town?
New Towns differ from gradually developed towns in the political moment of the decision-making, and the subsequent design of a master plan by professionals, to create an urban community on a site where there was no town before.

What does INTI do?
INTI aims at studying, influencing and improving New Towns worldwide by researching their development in theoretical and practical research. The focus is on:

- The regeneration of Europe’s post war cities, e.g. English New Towns, French Villes Nouvelles, Dutch Groeikernen and New Towns in the former Soviet countries.
- The most recent generation of New Towns, designed and built from the Middle East to Afrika and Asia, in countries like Dubai, India, China, Korea and in Latin America in countries like Brazil and Venezuela.

INTI communicates its knowledge and research in different ways
Publications: Model Town; Using Urban Simulation in New Town Planning (2009), New Towns for the 21st Century; the Planned vs. the Unplanned City (2010), New Towns and Politics (forthcoming); Rising in the East, New Towns in Asia after 1990 (forthcoming).
Education: INTI initiates and organizes educational activities: academic courses featuring an elite of experts, custom-made master classes for professionals, PhD studies, lecture series for the general public, excursions, and summer schools.
Events: INTI organizes annual international conferences e.g ’Simulation Models for Planning New Towns’ (2007), ’Planned vs. the Unplanned City’(2009) and ‘New Towns and Politics’ (2010). Future topics will include: ‘The Sustainable New Town’, ‘New Towns and Africa’, ‘New Towns and the Cold War Era’, ‘New Towns and Culture’ and ‘New Towns and Regeneration’.



INTI’s ambassadors

INTI is supported by internationally reknown experts in the field of urban planning, development, financing, policy, design and social studies. They include Sir Peter Hall, Bartlett University College London, Prof. Richard Burdett, London School of Economics, Kees Christiaanse, KCAP and ETH Zürich, and Leen Verbeek, Queen’s Commissioner of the Province of Flevoland, the Netherlands.


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International New Town Institute / Grote Markt 43 / 1315 JB Almere / The Netherlands
info@newtowninstitute.org / phone: +31 (0)6 39 81 26 12
INTI is generously supported by the Province of Flevoland and the Municipality of Almere
(Investeringsprogramma Flevoland Almere).

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