Speakers: John de Ruiter, Frank van den Beuken, Martin Verwoest, Irma Ramackers, Ellen de Bonth en Arjan Vedder
Text: Farid Tabarki en Rindert de Groot
Learning together from the environment and planning act
By Farid Tabarki
In mid-2021, three years after the introduction of the Environmental and Planning Act, all cities in the Netherlands must have developed a new environmental vision – a local translation of the new Act with considerably fewer rules. The issues are complex – energy transitioning, circular economy, ecology, and social inequality. It calls for an integrated and inclusive approach to the city, determined more by underlying values than by rules, and interpretations differ for each municipality. Thinking on the basis of values and frameworks is not new, but it is gaining new impetus with this Environment and Planning Act. On 26 March 2020, municipal thinkers and doers in the field of environmental vision met online to explore spatial and democratic possibilities and difficulties. This Zoom meeting was moderated by Farid Tabarki of Studio Zeitgeist.
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