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700 projects in 30 years
An overview of all Urhahn projects
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If cities were family-friendly
Child-friendly design goes beyond the design of a beautiful playground. Urhahn researched how to make a city family-friendly, recorded this in the publication 'If cities were family-friendly...' and is organizing a workshop on this theme.
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Integral vision of the Haarlem station area
Good marriage, good neighbours or good friends? How a public transport hub becomes a high-quality city entrance.
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Development framework De Hoef West
Collaboration creates support in Amersfoort
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FixTheCityMix
Everyone seems to agree: mixed use areas contribute to liveable cities. But why is it so difficult to achieve a mix of functions in urban area developments and transformations? This dilemma intrigues us and forms the basis for our latest research.
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‘Activity scan’ Antwerp
Working on a more healthy, active Antwerp is a brave choice. It requires a strong policy with regard to car use, which does not always lead to popular measures. Then why do we want a more active friendly Antwerp?
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Development vision Overgoo, Leidschendam-Voorburg
Compass for the transformation into a mixed living and working area
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Middelland, Woerden
Focus on organic transformation of an inner city area of employment
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Havenstad-ZaanIJ: coherence in urbanization
How 70,000 homes and 58,000 jobs find a place in an attractive mixed urban area between Amsterdam and Zaandam
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Living in a park in the middle of the city
Urhahn made the urban development plan for Weezenlanden Zwolle together with stakeholders and residents
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The gardens of Zandweerd, Deventer
Urhahn designs the most exercise-friendly and sustainable neighbourhood in the Netherlands
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Dashboard for the added value of urbanization
Urhahn has developed a Dashboard for the College van Rijksadviseurs (Board of Government Advisors) in which the social effects of urbanization are visualized.
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Can the bridge become part of the city?
Urban development research Hamerkwartier Amsterdam Noord
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The Story of Lelystad
Lelystad defines strategic tasks as a prelude to the environmental vision (‘omgevingsvisie’).
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20 million for Eindhoven Central Station area
The city center and the station area of Eindhoven will become ‘brainport-worthy’.
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The active city
A lot has being spoken about healthy, active cities, but how do you make them? We show this in our new book! Now available.
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Organic area development Oostenburg Amsterdam
Oostenburg is being developed into a mixed use area. The design by Urhahn investigates the balance between flexibility for future initiatives on one hand, and consistency and security on the other.
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Economic and spatial vision: Tilburg is ready for the 21st century
Four pillars provide a basis for economic progress: more jobs, more spending, more visitors and more businesses.
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A winning region
Urhahn has drawn up a structure plan for the West-Friesland region. This ambitious project involves regional parties and local people in safeguarding the future of West-Friesland.
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Vision for Hoorn city centre: an innovative process approach
Over one thousand Facebook reactions, numerous conversations with residents, members of the business community and visitors to the city centre during the City Centre Labs, and intensive collaboration with the municipality, have all helped shape this vision.
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Participation process in Hoofddorp
Development plan and strategy for Hoofddorp Central is attractive and provides guidance for initiators.
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The new savannah in Emmen
A former city centre zoo will be turned into a city park with space for initiatives. Urhahn made the inspirational development framework.
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Innovation through interaction
How can urban environments contribute to greater interaction, and hence to greater innovation? Urhahn offers its vision of the development of urban interaction environments for knowledge workers, within the Spatial Economic Development Strategy (REOS).
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Strategy indicator for urban transformation
The practice of urban area development has changed considerably in recent years. Area development today calls for flexibility. Urhahn researched the practice and concluded that there is plenty of experimentation with new strategies.
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Living with water: water safety and climate resistance in the IJssel-Vecht Delta
A complex strategy presented in a comprehensible manner
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Intensification or expansion of the port area?
Monitor of space intensification North Sea Canal Area offers the solution
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Resident participation in Naarden
Towards a shared vision for the Amersfoortsestraatweg
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What to do with the oversupply of employment areas?
Assessment and realization strategy for employment areas in West-Friesland
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More quality, less expansions
Municipality of Stede Broec aims to further develop the Streekhof, a large regional shopping mall in a small town, into a sustainable, attractive town centre.
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Development strategy Valkenburg: always finished
Airbase Valkenburg Katwijk transforms to sustainable residential district
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Supervision renewal Emmen city centre
Future of a modernistic city centre in a shrinkinkage area
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Sustainable area development Strijp-T
Once a Philips factory behind a fence, now an employment area in the city. What is the future? In workshops with stakeholders Urhahn developed a sustainable area development strategy for Strijp T.
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A lively city centre
Urhahn advises Amstelveen with a vision to strengthen the connections between the adjacent districts and the city center and improving the public spaces in and around the center.
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Delta programme: are the Dutch cities prepared for weather extremes?
In five workshops Urhahn has examined how adaptive our cities and villages are considering major weather extremes.
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Space-S Eindhoven made by future tenants
Urhahn takes ideas of future tenants seriously and works it out with their own expertise to an urban plan and design for the public space.
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Value creation in small steps
How to improve the quality of the Binckhorst Northwest in The Hague in an organic development process?
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Integration of highway A9
How can the barrier of the A9 through Amstelveen be integrated in the urban area in an affordable way, and at the same time offer an advantage for the development of the city centre?
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North Sea Canal area: together along the waterside
How can the divergent interests alongside the North Sea Canal area come together? Urhahn creates the vision for 2040 in which the area of tension between urbanization, increase of employment and conservation of regional qualities are drawn together.
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Art by the River Rhine
Arnhem has searched for years for a feasible way to connect the city centre and the river Rhine, in the area around the Nieuwstraat. The urban design and the development strategy by Urhahn give shape to this ambition.
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Water plan Hasselt (BE)
How can the design and the programming of the water strengthen the property development around the harbour basins and vice versa?
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A livable neighbourhood for everyone
Urban renewal plan for a disadvantaged neighbourhood that empowers the residents to develop themselves: Barry Farm Washington (DC, USA)
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Designing the Spontaneous City
Research on obstacles and opportunities for organic urban redevelopment
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A new bridge for Oaxaca
Technical knowledge of the Netherlands is combined with local knowledge from Mexico in the urban design for a new bridge, a park and traffic flow: Puente IV Centenario, Oaxaca de Juárez (MEX).
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IABR ‘Making City’: Upload Eindhoven
In search of the most optimal match between supply and demand for reuse of industrial buildings
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Sustainable river becomes new public value in Oaxaca
An integrated approach to water, traffic, nature, economy, urban development and civic participation makes Urhahn's vision for improving river Atoyac in Oaxaca (MEX) more than just a spatial design.
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The Spontaneous City
The era of large-scale urban planning is over. With the book ‘The Spontaneous City’ Urhahn heralds another practice.
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Factory intertwines with the city
With the development of a former textile factory, the town centre of Almelo suddenly increases with 22 hectares. Urhahn made the development plan for Indië terrain.
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Redevelopment creates public and financial value
Master Plan Wellesley Road and Park Lane Croydon London (UK): from mono functional business district to a livable, mixed use district
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More green, identity, cultural history and human scale for Chinese cities
Vision, design and realisation of various projects in Shenyang (CN)
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Your dream house between tree belts and ruts
Development plan and public space design Oude Tolweg, Zuidlaren, Tynaarlo
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Intensification with quality
Two intensification studies for Town Centres in London (UK)
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Deprived neighbourhood on the rise
Urban renewal plan and detailed Urban design plans for Kolenkit neighbourhood Amsterdam
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Housing à la carte
Working on residential environments
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Strategy for urbanity
A research on urban design and commissionership
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A Pattern Image
Typological tool for quality in urban planning
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