During the last few years the municipalities in the Network City Twente – Almelo, Borne, Hengelo, Enschede and Oldenzaal – have made all kinds of plans for the urban fringes. Strootman Landschapsarchitecten has merged them into an integral and collective vision.
Location
Stadsranden Netwerkstad Twente
Principal
Regio Twente, gemeenten Almelo, Borne, Hengelo, Enschede en Oldenzaal, Ministerie van I en M, provincie Overijssel, en Waterschap Regge en Dinkel
Partners
Radar, bureau voor sociale vraagstukken
Surface Area
100.000 ha
Design Year
2010-2011
Implementation
2012-
The urban fringes of the Network City Twente form special and dynamic transition zones with both urban and rural characteristics. They are at the centre of political and administrative interest because they offer opportunities for housing, recreation and tourism, new forms of economy on the edge of the city to replace agriculture, and as a recreational area for the city.
During the last few years the municipalities in the Network City Twente – Almelo, Borne, Hengelo, Enschede and Oldenzaal – have made all kinds of plans for the urban fringes. Jointly with the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, the province of Overijssel, the Twente region and the Regge and Dinkel Water Board, these five cooperating municipalities have now merged the different subsidiary visions into an integral and collective vision for the urban fringes of the whole Network City.
In this connection the possibilities and desiderata of designating parts of the urban fringes of the Network City as a State Buffer Zone have been explored, a subsidiary investigation of the possibilities and desiderata for related social policy has been conducted, and a joint implementation programme has been drawn up.
On the basis of this vision, the development or preservation of the urban fringes can be tackled with new élan to promote recreation and tourism, to enable new forms of enterprise in the urban fringes, and to take practical steps towards quality improvement.
To translate the principles listed above into specific interventions and to place the current policy and the projected formulated by the local authorities within a framework, a toolkit has been developed consisting of six instruments: Green lobes; Green wedges; Improvement of the city-countryside transition; City-nature interweaving zone; Recreational network: circular routes; Recreational network: radial routes.
Maasdijk between Cuijk and Ravenstein safe and attractive
Agroforestry + 1 = 3
Design plan for the public area of De Stationstuinen in Barendrecht
Hembrug location
Climate adaptation for the Wadden Sea coast in the 21st century
A strong Lekdijk at Salmsteke
Green Groningen
Master Plan Getting Up Steam Goor
Framework and course Rottemeren
Waterfront and Kade 05 Harderwijk
Opportunities for a permanent green zone between Duiven and Westervoort
Joining forces to tackle the coast and Voordelta in Zeeland and South Holland
Integral spatial perspective A7 corridor Groningen – Midden Groningen
A wide avenue as green entrance to Amstelveen
Rotterdam in 2060
Selwerd – the Green Stamp
Lindehof
Leeuweplaats
Leeuwesteyn North
The Pauwels Landscape Park
Binnenrotte Rotterdam
Assen on the Aa
River Delta Programme
Ravenstein waterfront
Agenda for Maas riverside park from fort to fort
West Flank Haarlemmermeer
Schipbeek – Nieuwe Sluis weir
Heiloo Zandzoom (local authority)
Haaksbergen Eibergsestraat
Haaksbergen structural vision 2030
Valley and Hillridge
Haarlem Italiëlaan
Aarplein
Tourism vision for North-East Brabant
Spoorbeeld
New village green for Ugchelen
Hengelose Es-North
Losser-Oldenzaal outskirts
Structural vision for Wijdemeren
Mill South spatial exploration
’t Kavelt, Mill and Sint Hubert
Village life on the Limmen Ribbons
Two structural visions for Airport Twente
Marker Wadden
City Boulevard Assen
Harbour canals: sources of inspiration
Parklandscape the Zendersche Esch
Heiloo Zuiderloo
Buurse expansion
Nijverdal aan de Regge
High Sandy Ground Delta Plan
Regional vision for the Wadden Coast
The IJsselmeer Coast Delta Programme
Delta Programme IJsselmeer
Utrecht fast tram
The river as Tidal Park
Coast and Heritage Master Plan
Elswout
Keldonk village centre
Zijtaart village centre
Langstraat
Spatial planning prospects Laag Holland
Borne-Zenderen link
Drinking water 2040
Meerstad Groningen
New country estate Steenbergen
PARK21
Bekkerslocation