Europan 9

Innovation and international exchange in architecture and urban design: Europan is possibly the only organisation that can offer this, by means of a two-yearly competition for young professionals. In two decades Europan, a collaboration of - on average - twenty European countries, has developed into an extensive and significant European network.

The theme of the ninth competition round is “European Urbanity – Sustainable City and New Public Space”. “Sustainability” refers to both the non-wastage of natural resources and to an object’s envisaged durability.

This book gives an overview of the winning plans for the four Europan 9 sites in the Netherlands: Amsterdam, Almere, Groningen and Nijmegen. The designs are extensively documented. It contains interviews with the designers of the winning plans in which they explain their vision. It also includes a number of essays covering such subjects as Europan in a European perspective and the theme of the competition. All the entries for the Dutch sites are included on the enclosed CD-ROM which provides insight into the competition process in word and image.