Seminar 3 High Rise in the Sustainable City

Location and time will follow soon

The Department of Urbanism in collaboration with the sLIM foundation organises the 15th sLIM course on ‘High Rise in the Sustainable City. Tall Stories and Urban Legends about Skyscrapers & Skylines’.

Does high-rise really contribute to a more lively, attractive and sustainable city? And what are the lessons governments, developers and designers can learn form experiences with high rise and its performance? These questions will be addressed in the 15th sLIM series. The series consists of 4 full-day seminars and a final seminar in which participants will present their reflections on the themes discussed during the seminars.

Go to ‘Faculty News’ for more detailed information on the general theme of the seminar series.

Seminar 3 – High rise developments and integrale gebiedsontwikkeling

High rise projects can be used to initiate an urban development - give a project a face -, but can also slow done the development process.  What are the advantages and disadvantages of high rise for integrale gebiedsontwikkeling? How many high rise buildings can a project handle and how many high rise developments should a city have?

Speakers:

• Carol Willis, Professor urban studies & planning Columbia University New York,  Form Follows Finance. Relations between economic conditions and high-rise developments.
• Jochem Jourdan, Partner Jourdan Mueller Architects Frankfurt, Supervisor high-rise policy Frankfurt a/Main, High-rise as an engine of urban transformation *
• Rients Dijkstra, Partner Maxwan Architects + Urbanists Rotterdam, supervisor Central Station area Rotterdam, Setting the rules for high-rise
• Mark Rabbie, Vesteda Projectontwikkeling, High-rise: risks and benefits for public and private stakeholders

For more information go to: www.slim.nu.