- NL2010 - An Assessment of urban Renewal and sustainable Development in the Netherlands    233 kb by    Dubbeling, Martin | martindubbeling@planet.nl    Short Outline The paper NL 2010 - an assessment of urban renewal and sustainable development in the Netherlands - will stipulate what should be achieved or done differently in the year 2010 to benefit from these efforts in 2020 and onwards. Abstract In The Netherlands, we have an experience of more than a decade in restructuring both post-war residential districts and strategic parts of city centres on a large scale in many Dutch cities. In the last years we have become aware that lessons can be learned from consultations with housing associations, care establishments, neighbourhood committees and real estate developers. Restructuring residential districts and strategic parts of city centres is more a matter of community building, community concepts and contextual visioning than building in bricks. The decade of experience is an achievement, but also a risk. A critical assessment or review of the past objectives and attained results could help to understand and to rephrase today’s and future objectives of the next strategic projects in our fast changing society. In order to make the assessment I have interviewed 18 professionals and scientists in the field of policy making, urban planning and real estate development. Six of them are prominent ISoCaRP members. The interviews took place in February and March 2007. The paper on the NL2010 will stipulate what should be achieved or done differently in the year 2010 to benefit from these efforts in 2020. The interviews showed clearly that, without delay, a different approach on urban renewal and development should be taken. Urban projects should be better connected and better safeguarded against futures changes and more flexible to enhance sustainable development. More efforts should be made to direct and control the quality and sustainability of the urban renewal processes. More energy should be put in the involvement and participation of inhabitants. The fast changes in society demand a regular evaluation of target groups (who are we really building for ?) and the way the plans for urban renewal and strategic projects are visioned and communicated with stakeholders and future users. Keywords Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2007: Urban Trialogues   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper