Highlights 2013-2014

Posted by Martin Dubbeling

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 organisation of urban planning and design, until December 2013.
• Vice President Urban Planning Advisory Teams (UPATs) of ISOCARP, the International Society of City and Regional Planners.
• Vice Chair of the 50th Anniversary Celebration Committee of ISOCARP, the International Society of City and Regional Planners.

 

Design and Consultancy Projects in 2013-2014

• Coordinator and team member of the ISOCARP Urban Planning Advisory Team ‘Perm Science City and Knowledge Hub’ commissioned by the Perm Region (Russia), July 2012-March 2013.
• Coordinator and team member of the Team of Dutch Experts ‘Organic Regeneration of the Shan Nan Desakota Area’ commissioned by the Institute of Planning and Design of the Nanjing University and the Shantou Urban and Rural Planning Bureau in the Guangdong Region (China), January-October 2013.
• Spatial development strategy, urban design and supervision landscaping DRU Industriepark, the transformation and redevelopment of industrial heritage of an iron industries site in Ulft, commissioned by the Municipality of Oude IJsselstreek.
• Coordinator and team member of the ISOCARP Urban Planning Advisory Team ‘Organic Regeneration of the Shantou Down Town Area’ commissioned by the Institute of Planning and Design of the Nanjing University and the Shantou Urban and Rural Planning Bureau in the Guangdong Region (China), March-October 2013.
• Coordinator and Secretary of the Jury of the International Urban Design Competition of the New East Coastal Area commissioned by the Shantou Urban and Rural Planning Bureau, April-November 2013.
• Spatial development strategy, urban design and landscaping the transformation of the Steenen Poort area, commissioned by the Municipality of Houten.
• Spatial development strategy, urban design and landscaping the area for the Merletcollege, commissioned by the Municipality of Cuijk.
• Coordinator and team member of the ISOCARP Urban Planning Advisory Team ‘Jiangbei New District’ in cooperation with the Urban Planning Society of China commissioned by the Nanjing Urban Planning Bureau, August-December 2013.
• Three Case Studies to illustrate the ‘Organic Regeneration of the Shan Nan Desakota Area’ commissioned by the Institute of Planning and Design of the Nanjing University and the Shantou Urban and Rural Planning Bureau in the Guangdong Region (China), October 2013 – March 2014.
• Preparations and preoperational mission to the Ramallah-East-Jerusalem-Bethelehem-Jericho region (Palestine) to prepare a ISOCARP Urban Planning Advisory Team workshop for the UN-Habitat Special Human Settlements Programme for the Palestinian People, Februari 2014 – present.

 

Publications, Quotations, Keynotes and Workshops in English in 2013-2014

• Publication: Martin Dubbeling, Niels Kropman, et al. ‘Integrating Urban Economies for Sustainable Cities’, ISOCARP YPP Report for UN Habitat, the Government of Kenya, the City Council of Nairobi, the Architectural Association of Kenya and the University of Nairobi, January 2013.
• Publication: Pietro Elisei, Jaap Modder, Martin Dubbeling, et al. ‘Fast(er) Forward, Towards Perm as a Science City of the 21st Century, The City as a Campus’, ISOCARP UPAT Report for the Ministry of Education of the Perm Region and the City Project Bureau of Perm, March 2013.
• Presentation: ‘Energy Planning and Spatial Planning in The Netherlands’, REAL CORP 2013 Planning Times, Rome, Italy, 20-23 May 2013.
• Publication: Hongyang Wang en Martin Dubbeling. ‘The Big Jump Forwards, an Example of China’s Pursuit Towards a New Pattern of Growth’, in ISOCARP Review 09 Frontiers of Planning, Visionary futures for human settlements, pagina 188-199, oktober 2013.
• Publication: Martin Dubbeling, Ric Stephens, et al. ‘Organic Regeneration of the Shan Nan Desakota Area, Part 1 Research and Strategy’, Team of Dutch Experts Report for the Institute of Planning and Design of the Nanjing University and the Shantou Planning Bureau in the Guangdong Region, October 2013.
• Seminar: ‘Results of the 2013 UPAT Workshops in Shantou, Tlalnepantla and Nanjing’, 49th ISOCARP Congress Frontiers of Planning – Evolving and Declining Models of City Planning, Brisbane, Australia, 1-4 October 2013.
• Publication: Martin Dubbeling, Guy Castelain Perry, et al. ‘New East Coastal Area International Urban Design Competition’, ISOCARP Jury Report for the Shantou Rural and Urban Planning Bureau, November 2013.
• Presentations: ‘City, suburbs or countryside: model for development of new areas of Moscow’, Moscow Urban Forum 2013 and ‘Industrial Heritage in European Cities’ Moscow Architectural Institute, 5-7 December 2013.
• Presentation: ‘Jiangbei New District’, Nanjing City Council and Nanjing Urban Planning Bureau, 10 December 2013.
• Keynote: ‘UPAT Workshops as a tool for Ecology and Mitigation Hazard Prevention’, Regional Congress on Ecological Preservation and Risk Management for Cities in Mountainous Areas, Urban Planning Society of China (UPSC), Chongqing, China, 12-13 December 2013.
• Publication: Martin Dubbeling, Sébastien Goethals, Ric Stephens. ‘Urban Planning and Design Competitions, How can the public and private sector efficiently and economically obtain innovative, high-quality, multi-disciplinary plans and designs for large-scale projects?’, in Oregon’s Planning Journal, Winter 2013, page 14-16.
• Publication: Awais Piracha, Dhiru Thadani, Martin Dubbeling, et al. ‘Jiangbei New District, Nanjing, ISOCARP Urban Planning Advisory Team Report, December 2013.
• Presentation: ‘Monitoring urban regeneration processes of large housing estates’, Mid-term Conference RE-Block Project, URBACT II Programme, Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 27-28 March 2014.
• Interview: Harry Harsema. ‘Planning without Frontiers, 50 years of ISOCARP’, in ’Scape 1-2014, the international magazine for landscape architecture and urbanism, page 6-15.
• Publication: Martin Dubbeling. Organic Regeneration of the Shan Nan Desakota Area, Part 2 Case Studies, Team of Dutch Experts Report, for the Institute of Planning and Design of the Nanjing University and the Shantou Rural and Urban Planning Bureau in the Guangdong Region, March 2014.
• Presentation: ‘Ten Years of UPATs: Results and Effects’, Institute for Spatial and Landscape Planning, Chair of Spatial Development, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 30 June – 1 Juli 2014.
• Presentation: UPAT Seminar, Results of and prospects for the 2013-2015 YPP and UPAT workshops, 50th ISOCARP Congress Urban Transformations – Cities and Water, Gdynia, Polen, 23-26 September 2014.
• Presentation:  ‘Global Experiences UPAT Workshops’, Institute for Spatial and Landscape Planning, Chair of Spatial Development, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 23 October 2014.
• Publication: Martin Dubbeling. The Threeway Double Strategy for the Shan Nan Desakota Area, paper for the Conference on Country Territory Development and Planning Under the New Urbanisation Perspective, Nanjing University, China, November 2014.
• Presentation:  ‘Experiences UPAT Workshops in China’, Guangdong Urban and Rural Planning and Design Institute, Guangzhou, China, 24 November 2014.
• Presentation: ‘Critical View On Urban Planning And Design in China’, Urban Planning Department, School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, China, 27 November 2014.
• Presentation:  ‘The Threeway Double Strategy for the Shan Nan Desakota Area’, Conference on Country Territory Development and Planning Under the New Urbanisation Perspective, Nanjing University, China, 29 november 2014.
• Presentation: ‘The Need for Water Management under the New Urbanisation Perspective’, Urbanisation and Urban-Rural Planning Research Centre of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China, 01 December 2014.