Setting the New Urban Agenda
for New Towns #4
12 May 2016
> Less is more: Zero waste policies <
With climate change catching on, every city is concerned with its level of sustainability. Where older cities are trying to adapt their original structure, New Towns have the opportunity to incorporate (…)
Newsletter April 2016
15 April 2016
Minecraft for the sake of urban design In cooperation with UN-Habitat, the Making Cities Together team in Nairobi organized a Minecraft workshop in Dandora, a suburb of Nairobi. During this workshop, the computer game Minecraft was used as a tool (…)
Re-Imagining India
1 April 2016
INTI and magazine My Liveable City (India) organize a knowledge tour to the Netherlands from April 11 to April 16, 2016. Currently, 31% of India’s population lives in cities and that number is supposed to rise to 50% by 2030. In order to steer (…)
Newsletter March 2016
16 March 2016
Feeding the City: mapping the metabolism of Nairobi Can urban planning help to achieve food security for all? How do corridors between the rural area and the city function in the metropolitan region? And how can urban-rural linkages contribute (…)
Newsletter February 2016
2 February 2016
Urban Africa With the announced plan to build a new capital city for 5-7 million inhabitants 45km east of Cairo, Egyptian New Towns have taken on renewed importance in the national discussion. New Towns have been on the urban agenda of Egypt (…)
Fashion Village
22 January 2016
Design as Politics from Delft University of Technology explored the relationship between work, architecture and urbanism in Shenzhen from October 30 until November 5, 2015. INTI introduced the group of 7 graduation students to the Da Lang Fashion (…)
Newsletter November 2015
12 November 2015
Border Shi Ao Village Xialingpai Village (photo: Lard Buurman)
Exhibition Da Lang Fever 2.0 at the 2015 Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture Following the successful event of the exhibition Da Lang Fever, organized at the 2013 (…)
Kick-off van ‘Oog voor de buurt’
15 October 2015
In samenwerking met het ministerie van BZK wordt onder begeleiding van het Atelier Rijksbouwmeester in een aantal plaatsen in Nederland het programma ’Oog voor de buurt’ uitgevoerd. Dit programma is gericht op het stimuleren van de (verbindende) (…)
De Vinexmensen - Nieuwsbrief 7
29 September 2015
De toekomst van Vinexwijken Begin deze maand verzamelden we in Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam om met bewoners en betrokkenen te discussiëren over de toekomst van Vinexwijken. Gastsprekers Hans Leeflang (Jaar van de Ruimte), Arnold Reijndorp (…)
Save the date: October 8th in Accra
10 September 2015
You are cordially invited to the opening of the exhibition The Banality of Good. Six decades of New Towns, Architects, Money and Politics, on October 8th, at 6 PM at the Nubuke Foundation in Accra.
The city of Tema is one of six cities, which (…)
De toekomst van Vinexwijken
28 August 2015
Wat moet er in de Actieagenda voor Vinexwijken staan? Deze vraag staat centraal op donderdag 3 september. Samen met Pakhuis De Zwijger organiseren De Vinexmensen een avond die geheel in het teken staat van de toekomst van Vinexwijken. We willen (…)
De Vinexmensen - Nieuwsbrief 6
27 August 2015
De Vinexmensen 3 september in Pakhuis De Zwijger. Meld je nu aan! Wat moet er in de Actieagenda voor Vinexwijken staan? Deze vraag staat centraal op donderdag 3 september. Samen met Pakhuis De Zwijger organiseren De Vinexmensen een avond die (…)
Public Lecture by Jorge Peña Díaz
27 May 2015
On Tuesday 2 June, Jorge Peña Díaz (architect and professor on Urban Design at the CUJAE University of Havana Cuba) will give a lecture about the recent past and near future of the fascinating city of Havana, the capital of Cuba, entitled: Havana (…)
Five minute impression of the "Urban Africa” conference
29 April 2015
This international conference explored the current trajectory of African urbanization with insights from some of the most exciting voices in the field and serve as a platform to begin an open debate. Organized by the International New Town (…)