Europan 7
Suburban Challenge: urban intensity and housing diversity

Design: Fred Inklaar, Illustrated (colour and b/w), Paperback, sewn (with CD-ROM), 128 pages, Size: 24 x 28 cm
Dutch/English edition, ISBN 90-5662-355-9 / 978-90-5662-355-5, € 27.50 OUT OF PRINT
January 2004

NAi Publishers in association with Stichting Europan

Europan 2003 is a call for ideas to revitalize suburban life in Europe. With 68 sites across the continent to choose from, the design theme this time round is 'Suburban challenge, urban intensity and housing diversity'. Transforming the post-war growth areas into enduring urban districts with a diversity of house types and up-to-date amenities is an issue of great relevance in Europe today.

Over 280 projects were submitted for the Dutch sites by young architects from the Netherlands and beyond. The winning designs will be announced at the end of January 2004 during a special event at the Netherlands Architecture Institute when an exhibition of all the submitted plans will be opened. The book Europan 7: Suburban challenge, urban intensity and housing diversity gives an overview of the prizewinners, exhaustively documenting their design proposals with model photographs, plans and conceptual sketches. Interviews with the designers shed further light on the projects. The project section of the book also includes an essay on the central theme of urban intensity, a description of the four Dutch sites and an analysis of the entries from a European perspective.