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Internationalexpert meetingRandstad 2040
 
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International expert meeting Randstad 2040
TU Delft organised on Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 De-cember 2008 an international expert meeting on the Spa-tial Vision Randstad 2040, in co-operation with the DutchMinistry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environ-ment (VROM) and the Vereniging Deltametropool. Thepurpose was to give critical but constructive criticism of the ‘Randstad 2040’ from a cross-national comparativeperspective, so as to inform further action and to assist in developing a research agenda on strategic spatial plan-ning and design at TU Delft.Meetings, site visits, presentations, lectures and discus-sions took place at various location in the Randstad: Rot-terdam centre, Scheveningen harbour, Amsterdam Zui-das, Schiphol airport and Delft old town.
Monday morning December 15th, the international experts joinedin an excursion, visiting key sites and routes in the Randstad.Joost Schrijnen (TU Delft) held an introduction presentation at theEuromast in Rotterdam. San Verschuuren (dRO Amsterdam) helda presentation in the information centre Zuidas in Amsterdam.Lunch was taken in Scheveningen.Monday afternoon over 100 interested academics, citizens, stakeholders met at Schiphol Airport for three lectures on the Future of the Randstad. Speakers were:
Bart Vink (Ministry of VROM)Bob Yaro (Regional Planning Association)John Worthington (DEGW)
 
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On Tuesday morning three parallel session were held in Delft. Theinternational experts debated with Dutch academics, practition-ers and stake holders. In the afternoon forty participants joined ina round table discussion to wrap up the two day event and focuson the knowledge agenda and the role of strategics projects in thegovernments long term spatial vision Randstad 2040.All meetings took place in a friendly, upbeat atmosphere. Therewas a lively debate in which all participants took part. The manysocial moments in between the meetings allowed for an trulyacademic exchange of thought, insights and ideas. It goes without saying that our visitors understood the tensions and frustrationsinvolved in the complex relations between strategy and project.They stressed the role of the Netherlands as a pioneer in strategicspatial planning and inspiration for other countries - a role that isperhaps less appreciated in the Netherlands than elsewhere. But they also emphasised that changing conditions require a shift inplanning style and process. The Netherlands shares these chal-lenges with many other places, not least the greater reliance onthe private sector in the development process; rapidly increasingdemands for space and; and critical environmental problems, if not potential crisis.In this minutes TU Delft does not provide a detailed transcript,rather it tries to draw the main conclusions and outlines the les-sons to be learned. There is much more that could be said. TheDutch hosts had to exercise some patience with the internationalguests who lacked detailed knowledge of the Randstad. But our re-viewers had a strong grasp of the big picture. They were at timesprovocative but also constructive. The result is a strong founda-tion for further collaboration on strategic planning in the Nether-lands and internationally. We will be working with out partners totake this work forward in research and further international meet-ings including a major conference on strategic spatial planning inDelft in 2010.
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