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Town Planning in the Netherlands since 1800. Responses to Enlightenment Ideas and Geopolitical Realities | Cor Wagenaar | 9789462082410 | nai010

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Town Planning in the Netherlands since 1800

Responses to Enlightenment Ideas and Geopolitical Realities

Author:Cor Wagenaar

Publisher:nai010

ISBN: 978-94-6208-241-0

  • Hardcover
  • English
  • 640 Pages
  • Oct 1, 2015

Hailed as a classic on publication, this reprinted edition of 'Town Planning in the Netherlands since 1800' offers anew the acclaimed overview of town planning in the Netherlands from the late eighteenth century onwards. Recording the way the Dutch rebuilt the cities, this study is thoroughly embedded in an international setting.

Beginning in the late 18th century, this overview of town planning in the Netherlands records the way the Dutch rebuilt the cities they inherited from the 17th century. They first replaced the water-based infrastructure with extensive railway systems and in the twentieth century with a network of highways. They restructured the rural countryside to increase agricultural production and then redeveloped it as the setting for suburban sprawl. And along the way they created planning tools envied in the rest of the world, and then replaced them with nebulous forms of public private partnership. Providing an anthology of plans and planning methods, the book illustrates how urbanism reflects history: the ambitions, concepts, dreams and visions not only of the designers and planners, but also of the institutions and individuals who were their patrons. Focusing on the Netherlands, this study is totally embedded in its international setting. Forces from outside - political and economic realities, ideas and concepts - have always had a huge impact on a country that from its very beginnings acted on, and was influenced by, the global theatre.

Composed of seven ‘geopolitical’ clusters that combine interrelated European and global economic structures, it focuses on the intellectual epicentres that inspired Dutch urbanism. The combination of these ideas and geopolitical realities sheds new light on the multitude of events related here – the emergence of a national railway network that replaced the historical waterbased infrastructure; the reconstruction of the landscape, first in order to boost agriculture and then to accommodate suburban sprawl; the creation of planning techniques respected throughout the world; and finally, their replacement by the sometimes nebulous forms of public-private partnerships.

This book is about how cities, villages and landscape changed in the last two centuries and it explains why Holland looks the way it does.

Hailed as a classic on publication, this reprinted edition of 'Town Planning in the Netherlands since 1800' offers anew the acclaimed overview of town planning in the Netherlands from the late eighteenth century onwards. Recording the way the Dutch rebuilt the cities, this study is thoroughly embedded in an international setting.

Beginning in the late 18th century, this overview of town planning in the Netherlands records the way the Dutch rebuilt the cities they inherited from the 17th century. They first replaced the water-based infrastructure with extensive railway systems and in the twentieth century with a network of highways. They restructured the rural countryside to increase agricultural production and then redeveloped it as the setting for suburban sprawl. And along the way they created planning tools envied in the rest of the world, and then replaced them with nebulous forms of public private partnership. Providing an anthology of plans and planning methods, the book illustrates how urbanism reflects history: the ambitions, concepts, dreams and visions not only of the designers and planners, but also of the institutions and individuals who were their patrons. Focusing on the Netherlands, this study is totally embedded in its international setting. Forces from outside - political and economic realities, ideas and concepts - have always had a huge impact on a country that from its very beginnings acted on, and was influenced by, the global theatre.

Composed of seven ‘geopolitical’ clusters that combine interrelated European and global economic structures, it focuses on the intellectual epicentres that inspired Dutch urbanism. The combination of these ideas and geopolitical realities sheds new light on the multitude of events related here – the emergence of a national railway network that replaced the historical waterbased infrastructure; the reconstruction of the landscape, first in order to boost agriculture and then to accommodate suburban sprawl; the creation of planning techniques respected throughout the world; and finally, their replacement by the sometimes nebulous forms of public-private partnerships.

This book is about how cities, villages and landscape changed in the last two centuries and it explains why Holland looks the way it does.

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