The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China, UN-Habitat and the Fujian Provincial Government hosted World Cities Day Forum in Xiamen, China, on Monday the 31st of October 2016. Martin Dubbeling, Vice-President of the International Society of City and...
Next Economy, Next C...
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The Transition of the Planning Tradition in the Netherlands The renowned spatial planning tradition in the Netherlands is in the middle of a radical transition. In 2015, proclaimed as the Year of Spatial Planning, the planning community celebrated 50 years of structured national planning,...
Fading line between ...
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Interview for Rabobank Highlights, ‘Handpicked essentials for today’s leaders’ by Herman Kleintjes. Earning legitimacy as a city requires hard work – keeping a finger on the pulse, staying young and vital, facilitating and promoting. Luck is a factor, but luck alone is no...
Spatial visioning Palestine: a planning and capaci...
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Commissioned by UN-Habitat and UNDP, an Urban Planning Advisory Team from ISOCARP, with ten international experts and ISOCARP Vice President Martin Dubbeling as head of mission, developed and presented a spatial vision for Gaza and the heartland of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. UN-Habitat and UNDP joined forces to curate and facilitate a spatial visioning exercise between the 6th and the 14th of June 2015. The International Society for City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP), which is an international planning NGO, was commissioned to compose and lead an Urban Planning Advisory Team (UPAT). A team of eleven international and...
Sino-Dutch Planning Week and Seminars in China
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Invited by Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University and Ningbo Institute of Planning and Design and the School of Urban Design, Wuhan University a Team of Dutch Experts (TDE) from ISOCARP and the Connecting Cities Network visited Nanjing, Ningbo and Wuhan from 25 May to 3 June 2015, participating “Sino-Dutch Planning Week” in Nanjing and seminars in Ningbo and Wuhan. The “Sino-Dutch Planning Week” in Nanjing University is an important part of “village planning” education programme of the fourth-year bachelor students from urban planning discipline. By involving the Team of Dutch Experts, the planning week was supposed...
Inspirational Values...
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Mobility, infrastructure, security and digital technology are the current key factors in the management of urban areas. But is quality of life in urban areas simply the sum of these key factors or does a liveable and smart city require something more? Making cities liveable and smart is a...
Sustainable and incl...
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Larry Ng Lye Hock, director of Singapore Urban Redevelopment Authority and World Cities Summit, gave a guest lecture at Pakhuis de Zwijger, the centre of creative industries and spatial planning. Martin Dubbeling (Connecting Cities and ISOCARP) introduced Larry Ny to an audience of 60...
Highlights 2013-2014
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Employment and Professional Activities in 2013-2014 Connecting Cities, in Assen, the Netherlands. Office for research, consultancy, design and communication in sustainable urban and regional planning. Position: Founder and principal, urban planner and designer, consultant in sustainable development. Registered as Urban Designer in the Register of Architects, registration number 2.890201.001 (since 1989). Chair of the Committee on Sustainable Urbanism of the Netherlands professional organisations of urban planning and design and landscape architecture (BNSP and NVTL), until December 2013. Vice President of BNSP, the Netherlands professional...
Presentations in Chi...
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The Academic Committee of Foreign Studies in Urban Planning of Urban Planning Society of China and the Department of Urban Planning and Design of the Nanjing University have honoured me to invite me to participate in the two day conference ‘County Territory Development and Planning in the New...
50 years of ISOCARP, Planning without borders
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Martin Dubbeling is interviewed for an article in Scape Magazine that addresses the history and virtues of ISOCARP, the International Society of City and Regional Planners. This article ’50 years of ISOCARP, Planning without borders’, describes the past, present and near future of ISOCARP. When ISOCARP was founded in 1965, population of western cities increased rapidly. It became clear that town and regional planners had tasks beyond housing and that good planning was important to stimulate economic development, to manage social change and to tackle environmental challenges. The inaugural congress was held in the Netherlands. In 2015 the...