A landscape of projects – the changing context of town planning practice in the Netherlands

Abstract

Recently a map was presented on which all the 2650 town planning projects in the Netherlands are shown that will be realized before the year 2005 or short¬ly after. In this contribution the focus is on changes in the con¬text of the profession of the urban planner as witnessed on the New map. This will give a more clear view on the changing demands from the profession and the education of urban planners are confronted with.

Keywords

• the Netherlands
• New map
• planning
• urbanism
• education