Strong Water - water pilot project in Amsterdam Zuidoost
In the Zuidoostlob water pilot project, design solutions are aimed at ensuring spatial quality. Current urbanisation issues and water management are thus linked together.
Results
The pilot project was aimed at highlighting current and future development challenges at the interface between city and countryside from the perspective of urban and rural water management, based on concrete design proposals and management measures. Its central point of focus was the interconnectivity between the (re)design challenges, the genesis (cultural history) of a place, and new meanings.
The aim of the report is to generate discussion, and to encourage and entice people to meet new challenges together. If this report has taught us one thing, it is that spatial designs can be more and should be more than just spatial planning. Water management, recreation, urban expansion, cultural significance, transformation processes, and traffic issues all require integral approaches in an ever more complex urban landscape. The spatial design can provide tools with which to unravel complexity, provide cohesion between different scale levels, and translate temptations into concrete interventions.
Contact persons
Eric van der Kooij
Dienst Ruimtelijke Ordening Amsterdam
e.vanderkooij@dro.amsterdam.nl
Paulien Hartog
Waternet
paulien.hartog@waternet.nl