Amsterdam was until recently a good example of a competitive global city with a high degree of social justice, according to Harvard Professor Fainstein. “I don’t quite understand why they now had to change what they were doing.”

INTERVIEW
By Michiel de Vries and Jasper van Dongen

Amsterdam and Susan Fainstein seem almost inseparable. Fainstein, in the seventies working at Rutgers University in New Jersey, asked herself several times the same question: How do cities in Europe deal with urban planning in a capitalist world economy and how much scope is there for having greater justice and more equality? Continue reading →

The winners of the workshop presentation (Photo by Johanna Carlsson)

A wonderful week has come to an end! The Association thanks all the participants for their tremendous enthusiasm and making the ASAP Symposium such a memorable event! We also want to congratulate the winners Mark Chapman, Helena Klintström, Johanna Wadstein, Franjo Tvrtkovic-Sahin and Lina Jeppsson. They have won the price of the best workshop presentation.

In short an overview of the week. By Jasper van Dongen. READ MORE

Amsterdam, bird's eye view

We are pleasantly surprised by the popularity of the symposium by foreign students. We got so many interested that we are thinking about creating additional places. Now we are hoping that this enthusiasm will spread to the Dutch planning students (register here for the full program with workshops & lectures). Including our very own Sarphati members who get a special discount! If you are unable to participate in the full program you can also sign up for one of the three evening lectures! (register for the lectures here)

In other news we can confirm lectures of Pierre van Rossum (project mananger) and Tsaijer Cheng (architect) on the 1012 project in the Red Light District workshop! And Project Office South Axis is enthusiastic to become involved in the South Axis workshop. More information on these developments will follow soon!