Olof Koekebakker, Emmie Vos, Aglaée Degros, Herman Meyer, et al.

Europan 9
European Urbanity: Sustainable City and New Public Space

Design: Novak graphic design, Paperback, sewn with cd-rom, Illustrated (colour and b/w), 128 pages, Size: 24 x 28 cm
Dutch/English edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-006-6, € 32.50

In association with Stichting Europan Nederland

Innovation and international exchange in architecture and urban design: Europan is possibly the only organisation that can offer this, by means of a two-yearly competition for young professionals. In two decades Europan, a collaboration of - on average - twenty European countries, has developed into an extensive and significant European network.

The theme of the ninth competition round is “European Urbanity – Sustainable City and New Public Space”. “Sustainability” refers to both the non-wastage of natural resources and to an object’s envisaged durability.

This book gives an overview of the winning plans for the four Europan 9 sites in the Netherlands: Amsterdam, Almere, Groningen and Nijmegen. The designs are extensively documented. It contains interviews with the designers of the winning plans in which they explain their vision. It also includes a number of essays covering such subjects as Europan in a European perspective and the theme of the competition. All the entries for the Dutch sites are included on the enclosed CD-ROM which provides insight into the competition process in word and image.

Europan 9 has been made possible with the financial support of the Ministries of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM), the municipalities of Almere, Groningen and Nijmegen, FiftyTwoDegrees CV, housing corporation In, housing corporation Nijestee, and Ymere Ontwikkeling BV.