Papers by Kees Doevendans
In mijn column in Via VIA, November 1997, schreef ik over het verschijnsel van het stedebouwkundi... more In mijn column in Via VIA, November 1997, schreef ik over het verschijnsel van het stedebouwkundig transcendentieplan. Bij die beschrijving had ik steeds het plan Kattenbroek van Bhalotra in gedachten. Een merkwaardig plan. Toch eigenlijk geen stedebouwkundig plan. Maar waarom dan niet? Die vraag kan worden benaderd vanuit het soort plan dat tegenover het stedebouwkundig transcendentieplan staat, namelijk het stedebouwkundig immanentieplan.
Bij het behoud van kerkgebouwen dienen vele waarden tegen elkaar te worden afgewogen en we bevind... more Bij het behoud van kerkgebouwen dienen vele waarden tegen elkaar te worden afgewogen en we bevinden ons in het spanningsveld van cultuur en economie. Ook private partijen zullen als uitgangspunt moeten nemen dat een kerkgebouw niet alleen een commercieel object is, maar eerst en vooral maatschappelijk vastgoed.
Bulletin KNOB, Jun 1, 2018
The notion of 'camp' seems opposed to the more solid city and its almost permanent archit... more The notion of 'camp' seems opposed to the more solid city and its almost permanent architecture. In this contribution, we regard the camp as a spatial concept with a twofold appearance: as both repressing and freeing, as a site for both larger, planned strategic activities, and smaller scale tactic acts of urban design. The camp is not only seen as the situation in which the nomos of civil society is set aside (as in Guatanomo bay, the camp outside the city) (Agamben 2002), but also regarded in a more 'joyful' situation: the polis itself as camping site. It is this latter interpretation, which we will try to explore through the example of the Central American city of San Jose.
In the summer of 1924 close to 500 people from 28 different countries visited Amsterdam in order ... more In the summer of 1924 close to 500 people from 28 different countries visited Amsterdam in order to into immerse themselves in the town planning challenges of their day. Dividing lines separating national developments were transcended in substantive discussions about an emerging discipline. At that time, urbanization was generally perceived as a rapid, autonomous and disastrous process that resulted in unmanageable metropolises with a rapidly declining quality of life. During the conference, special attention was paid to ideas on regional planning: plans that spanned municipal and provincial borders and called for an interdisciplinary approach. This article focuses on the content of the debate on 3 and 4 July 1924. The papers, or 'preliminary reports', that preceded the conference have received a fair amount of attention, but it is the substance and atmosphere of the discussions themselves that reveal the openness and collegiality of the international exchange of knowledge. ...
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Papers by Kees Doevendans