If you want to know more about urban regeneration, either as a civil servant, politician, architect, property developer, housing corporation official, student or scientist, the ReUrba² project might be of interest to you.
ReUrbA2 co-operation
- Province South-Holland (lead partner) - "Stedenbaan"
- Newcastle City Council - "Scotswood"
- Saarland (GIU GmbH) - "Stadmitte am Fluss"
- English Heritage - "St. Paul's Church"
- City Development Corporation Rotterdam - "Spaanse Polder"
ReUrbA2 method
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Learning by listening
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Learning by doing
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Learning by explaining
To improve this learning process ReUrbA2 uses the following facilities:
- Flying experts
- Theme meetings
- Resource centre
- International Building Exhibition
ReUrbA2 Strategies
1. Governance
This strategy is about the process of restructuring. Your restructuring project should focus on current and future users' demands, from the beginning to the very end. Collaboration with residents, investment partners and stakeholders, as well as communications and marketing, is the first step towards successful restructuring. For this strategy we developed a Digital Learning Environment.
2. Lifestyles
This strategy is about making strategic choices. Who are the potential users of your renewed urban area? The lifestyle approach may help in tailoring supply to an increasingly diffuse demand. We also developed a Digital Learning Environment for this strategy.
3. Value-orientated planning
This strategy concerns the switch from budget-oriented planning to value-oriented planning. By calculating all the added value generated by restructuring in the long term, one can broaden the scope of public and private investments in the short term, thereby ensuring sustainable regeneration projects.
4. Creative densification
This strategy is about the actual physical structure. Given the scarcity and the high cost of space, densification is called for. And, as skyscrapers don't fit in most European urban contexts, it's creative densification we should be aiming at; densification that increases the quality of the working and living environment.