Category: publication
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Productive Cities
// The plea for the urban economy and its place in the city is echoing ever louder. For several years, LAP has taken on the theme of Productive Cities as a viable place for production and living, education, leisure, recreation, and ultimately climate machine. Industrial sprawl is still common practice in the dismembered zoning approach to urbanity. The place of the…
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urban andes
// Against the backdrop of climate change and intensifying human occupation, explorative design strategies can play a role in recalibrating the relation between landscape logics and urbanization patterns in the Andes. Urban Andes marks the start of the new series LAP on innovative design research in architecture, urbanism, and landscape. It is the result of a two-year…
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toolbox dorpse architectuur
// From the Campine region to the coast, villages in Flanders are rapidly transforming. A wave of apartment buildings is rolling across the country, representing an ever increasing proportion of the housing stock even in small village centers. The residential quality in and around such buildings projects is disappearing. Individual architectural projects however can make…