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Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and boasts the country's largest port. The city's continuous growth presents new challenges. With a steadily increasing population and the resulting demand for housing, pressure on inner-city port areas and existing open spaces is rising.

How can industrial areas be sustainably transformed into productive cities, allowing for a mix of living, working, and production? How can open spaces be developed to address the pressing issues of the climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis? And how can natural succession be allowed to give space to urban wilderness?

In this course, you will focus on a specific urban area in Rotterdam. The goal is to design a master plan/framework plan that integrates productive city concepts with “unproductive” open spaces, understanding and designing the temporal and spatial dimensions of the study area.

Further important information:

• Interdisciplinary course organized by the research areas of Urban Design & Planning and Landscape Architecture & Landscape Planning

• Excursion to Rotterdam from October 20 to October 27, 2024

• The course is open to students of Architecture and Spatial Planning

• The exercise (UE) can only be taken together with the excursion (EX)