De Ceuvel Amsterdam: Sustainable Creative Collaboration?
Dear Proto City reader, if you happen to be around Amsterdam this summer, there is this one place you really need...
Build & Destroy
Planning, design & decay
Singapore: Environmental Innovation by Necessity
Singapore is an intriguing case to witness successful urbanization combined with rapid economic development: it is one of the most...
The Rise and Death of the Just City of Amsterdam
The Story of Op de Valreep, A Squatted Social Centre in Amsterdam Oost Urban planning was once – perhaps at...
Europe’s Largest Chinatown in Belarus?
The remarkable development of the China-Belarus Industrial Park About a year ago, there was a noteworthy news item in the...
Porto: UNESCO Heritage or Ruin
Porto and its shrinking city centre On The ProtoCity we have written on the shrinking periphery of the Netherlands and...
Nassau Primed to Become the Next Macau
One of the world's largest and most costly construction sites is not a colossal piece of transportation infrastructure, a swath...
Blanking Istanbul: The Earthquake Stress Paradox
An attempt at colour on Istanbul's urban fringes (Photo: 130325.011 by Adam Nowek) It is a well-known fact that Istanbul...
Public Space and Urban Planning: A Stepchild Relationship?
Modernist Housing With Plain Public Space (source: das-neue-dresden.de) Large scale urban developments as they were common since the 1960s were...
When Planning Goes Awry: The Case of the Goese Schans
Scaling the Housing Project Planning is a profession. When a new housing development has to be planned, urban planners need...
Rem’s Canvas: Shenzhen’s Central Business District
Light traffic on Shenzhen's six-lane Shennan Avenue (Photo: 121214.004 by Adam Nowek) Whether you consider his architectural legacy to be...
