Le fil rouge You want to feel safe, not lost Reading time: 6 minutes What makes life worth living? Urban planner Henk Hartzema does not design buildings, but the space around them. "Five, six,… Who is fooling who? Reading time: 1 minute With the recent return of the nitrogen ghost, I had to go back in time to figure out where we left the discussion. Well, some problems… Zeeland on the move! Reading time: 1,5 minute In his New Year's speech, Hugo de Jonge, as King's Commissioner in Zeeland, advocated a strong growth of the population… Go Woodland, go! Reading time: 1 minute In an era in which we seem to prefer to postpone the future further and further, it helps to take a look across the border, where in fact… Beating heart for the life sciences Reading time: 3 minutes In the coming years, Leiden University will transform the Leiden Bio Science Park from a business park into a mixed living-working area. Housing,… Zeeland must now choose Reading time: 10 minutes What makes the Zeeland landscape so different? What is its history, an what role played by the people of Zeeland? And what will the future… Gaudí’s shoes Reading time: 1,5 minute The holidays are starting to ebb away so that soon everyone will be recharged and able to pick up the thread again. We count our knots and… Open urban planning Reading time: 1 minute With higher building densities and smaller households, the importance of collectivity increases. I have written before that the subject of urban… Zeelandia – Engineering Space in the Southwestern Delta Reading time: 1 minute Last week I spoke and discussed at the Urban Future 2024 symposium in Rotterdam. As to be expected, many, sometimes emotional, reactions to… What do we want to wish for design practice? Reading time: 7 minutes Urban planner and architect Henk Hartzema and Marlies van Diest regularly visit each other professionally. A recent experience of one of the… The key to success is that all players look for each other Reading time: 3 minutes Major transformations are in the pipeline in Rijswijk and Beverwijk. Studio Hartzema is making a redevelopment plan for the Havenkwartier in… Back to the future! Reading time: 1,5 minute Tomorrow we will go to the polls for parliament, but I myself still don't know for whom. It would help me if all parties had more or less… We just do something Reading time: 1 minute The end of free money. Today was the day in the Netherlands. The gas tap from Groningen has been turned off. It is one of the largest fields in… From darkness to light Reading time: 2 minutes The official unveiling is on Saturday 16 September, but Leiden residents who want to take a look can already admire the 'Rob Schilperoort memorial'… We just do something Reading time: 2 minutes In May of this year, MSC Loreto sailed through the Western Scheldt to Antwerp. This ship belongs to the new generation of 7 largest container ships… It’s the 1,5m economy, stupid! Reading time: 0,5 minute In this beautiful photo by Aart Klein from 1959 we see the pits that were often dug against the wind on the beach at the time. It gives a fascinating… New Frontier Reading time: 0,5 minute Anything better than having to fire people, but the application for a COVID wage cost allowance feels uncomfortable. Never been dependent, then… Letter to all Dutch people Reading time: 2 minutes Spatial planning has been chafing for some time, no wonder after fifty years without national plans. We think that the country is cluttered and the… ‘I am proud of every paving stone that is laid in the right direction’ Reading time: 5 minutes There you will have the supervisor of the Bio Science Park, Henk Hartzema. Who else walks the Leiden campus with a master plan printed… The city center of Rotterdam can be much fuller – right? Reading time: 6 minutes From the deserted center where you could shoot the proverbial cannon without hitting anyone, to a bustling city center full of life and conviviality. In the… Feyenoord Park, mission accomplished Reading time: 1,5 minute Next week, the decision will be made about the future of Feyenoord City. The fervent desire to develop this district is offset by uncertainty… I am taking into account an unprecedented slowdown Reading time: 3 minutes Architectural firms have been forced to work from home for a week now. How are they doing? Will they continue with their work? Henk… Inhabiting the Aftermath Leestijd: 5 minuten In the light of challenging conditions, expected household growth and an unavoidable climate crisis, various forms of planning and self-organization… What happened to urban planning in Amsterdam? Reading time: 2 minutes Urban planner Henk Hartzema sounded the alarm about urban planning in Amsterdam last week on the Transformatieplein. With lot passports and… Leiden is growing Reading time: 3 minutes Now that Leiden is going to grow further, everyone can already feel the storm coming. It will be a choice between two evils. Or eat the last green edges… Urban planning is a matter of common sense Reading time: 10 minutes Henk Hartzema tirelessly defends – in essays, letters, submitted pieces and in his design practice – what he sees as the raison d'être of urban planning… Building the city of the future Reading time: 4 minutes Cycling metropolis Heart of Holland Reading time: 2 minutes Roads and connections hold a city together. Just as we look at a painting by standing in front of it and see a sculpture by looking at it from… A full empty metropolis Reading time: 6 minutes Of the 25,000 to 30,000 homes that need to be added in the region over the next ten years, Leiden has to build about ten thousand. However, new… Majesty Leestijd: 3 minuten Majesty As usual, I watched and listened to your Christmas speech on Christmas Day. I thought it was a very good story. Clear and accurate… It’s time for a plan for Randstad Holland Reading time: 3 minutes Just before Christmas, Minister Schultz announced that she wants to allow more buildings along the Dutch coast. A storm of criticism rose, after which the… Even without dune developments, the Randstad is not yet finished Reading time: 0.5 minute At the end of 2015, Minister Schultz decided to allow more buildings along the coast. After a storm of criticism, the minister quickly relented… Campus in Transition Reading time: 7 minutes VU and VUmc are joining forces and will work together in the coming years on the renewal of the VU campus. Josja van der Veer, director of the Facilities… Proposal for a virginal Netherlands Leestijd: 2 minuten The success of the Dutch urban planning tradition emphasises its intrinsic innocence. The idea of the Green Heart in the back garden of the large… OSA interviews Henk Hartzema Reading time: 18 minutes What is your job? My job is space maker. What do you mean with this expression? I think that if you are an architect or a urban planner, or a landscape architect, your job… Randstad Holland belongs to no one. And let’s keep it that way. Reading time: 12 minutes In the seventeenth century, Jacob van Ruisdael painted a beautiful series of panoramas of the landscape around Haarlem and other Dutch cities. The… Structural vision for Infrastructure and Space does not add structure to the Randstad Reading time: 7 minutes Large cities need planning. Not to record everything or to steer it in a coercive way, but to guide developments in the right direction and to ensure that everything… How a road can make Randstad Holland greener Reading time: 5 minutes Recently, the government announced through the Structural Vision for Infrastructure and Space that it would relinquish central control of planning by shifting… Dear Mr. Rutte, Reading time: 1,5 minute Ministerie van Algemene Zaken Zijne excellentie M. Rutte Postbus 20001 NL-2500 EA Den Haag Rotterdam 20 June 2011 Dear Mr. Rutte,… Why the Randstad seems full, but empty Reading time: 12 minutes The Randstad is one of the emptiest metropolises in the world. Yet the residents are oppressive, says architect Henk Hartzema. That's because we build… The street tells you where you are Reading time: 8 minutes In this article, Henk Hartzema discusses a special phenomenon in Dutch urban planning. Since the beginning of the 20th century, road structures have… Street Fascination Reading time: 0,5 minutes It is never easy for me to explain in a few words why the street is such an exciting theme. All right, I can say that the street represents the city… The streets in the Netherlands are far too short Reading time: 5 minutes Architect and urban engineer Henk Hartzema has been appointed professor of Design in Urbanism by the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. Pride Reading time: 0,5 minute The charm of the canal, the bridge, and the house with its garden and flag flying on a mast bring to mind hard work and the simple domestic…
