Make Your City: The City as a Shell by Eva De Klerk

Make Your City: The City as a Shell by Eva De Klerk

Make Your City paints a fascinating picture of 20 years of urban pioneering, along with the lessons that can be drawn from them. In 1999, a varied group of people ranging from skateboarders to theatre makers and mothers on benefits move into the then abandoned shipbuilding warehouse at the NDSM shipyard in Amsterdam-Noord. Under their own steam, they develop a future strategy for the building and its environment that focuses on redevelopment rather than demolition and creates spaces for small manufacturing businesses and artists while advocating continuity rather than temporary use as well as self-management through ownership. They believe cities vand buildings to be wholes: shells that can be used flexibly, their use changing time and again without the need to erase the past. Despite zealous market parties, political complications and financial problems, the initiators are still true to their objectives 20 years later. Eva de Klerk is one of the initiators of the redevelopment of the NDSM shipbuilding warehouse. In this guidebook she draws lessons from 20 years of autonomous urban development, from philosophy to realization. How can you organize, how can you fund, how can you build? This book is an inspiration: a guide to autonomous city making. Trancityxvaliz, on the city, urban change and the public domain Book jacket.

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ISBN 13	9789492095411
ISBN 10	9492095416
Title	Make Your City: The City as a Shell
Author	Eva De Klerk
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Valiz
Year published	2018-05-25
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.