Intro

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Intro
Economic power grows along the water Cost/benefi
t of more water Ir. Wout van der Toorn
Vrijthoff Associate Professor Real Estate
Management  
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structure

• Structure of the presentation
• 3 statements
• Something in between
• The same 3 statements

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Intro statements

• The identity of any city lies in the historic
  inner city
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• Historic water is a necessity to sell the city
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• Economic power better grows along the water
  then between the stones
• Agree or disagree?

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Water
Frozen water
Salt and sweat water
Overflowing water
View on the water
Living along the water
Stinking water
Drinking water
Live on bread and water
Running water
Dripping water
Dirty water
Money like water
Rain water
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City water
Water in the City
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Historic inner city
Water in the City
City center
Historic Inner City
Historic inner city, from 100 to about 2 of the
total urban area in a little bit more then a
hundred years
railway
Urban Area
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Surface water
Water in the City
Surface water
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Keep, restore and create
Historic Inner City
Surface water
Keep what is there
Because
Restore what ever was there
We need it (urban buckets) We like it
(economic power)
Create what never was there
You, me, the majority
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Developments in the past
What happened before?
Growth mobility
Historic inner city as the center of Business,
political power, religion Accesibility by car a
neccessity to Keep up with economic growth
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Achterburgwal
De Nieuwezijds Achterburgwal is in 1867 gedempt
en heet sindsdien de Spuistraat. Het Kattegat is
in 1870 gedempt.
Nieuwezijds Achterburgwal, gezien naar Hekelveld
met links brug over Kattegat, in 1865.
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Rokin
Rokin vóór de demping
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Den Haag
Prinsegracht, The Hague, then
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Breda haven
Breda Then, now and within a few years Back to
the future
Breda in 1660
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Rainfall
Raising sealevel(20-100 cm) Drop in the level of
the land
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Give way
If we dont give way to the water, it will find
its own
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Give way
Dresden, destroyed in the last days of the second
world war, floaded by highest water level ever of
the Elbe nearly 50 years later
Give way
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Trade mark
Why do we like it?

• Changing position and profile
• historic inner city because of
• Increase in scale
• Growth of the urban space
• Attractivity instead of accessebility
• Cities in competition
• Historic inner city as a trade mark
• Branding the city by the center
• Branding the city by cultural heritage

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Cultural heritage
Growing attention for cultural heritage In
western society people live longer and because of
growing mobility they remain seldom surrounded by
the things and the house they grew up with.
Therefore they stick to the last remaining
recognizable things the changing surroundings is
compensated by an increased interest for history
(Lowenthal, D., 1985, The past as a foreign
country, London, Cambridge University Press
) The faster society is changing, the more
attention for the stability of history, the more
popular preservation of cultural heritage The
historic embedded identity, forms the
counterpoint for the dominant influence of a
levelling global culture
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Look alike authentical
Historic embedded identity
Two new buildings in the old urban
structure   The one a design of Gehry for the
office of Nationale Nederlanden in Prague, the
other a design for a house of Buro de Binnenstad
in Amsterdam.   The one an example of a new
landmark in history, the other an example of a
look alike authentical
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Pisa and ?
Branding the city by cultural heritage ????
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Local identity
Local identity
Specific trade mark Or Could be anywhere?
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Statement 1
The identity of any city lies in the historic
inner city

• local or global identity
• place identity or architectural dropping
• telling who you are is telling where you come
  from
• if you destroy your roots you cannot grow
  (Hundertwasser)

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Urban cultural heritage
Urban cultural heritage is to be found in the
historic center
What is cultural heritage? Heritage is that which
we have inherited from the past (Modern Europe,
Turnbridge, page 236) Historic cities of Europe
are the cities that make conscious reference to
their historicity (modern Europe, Asworth, page
262)
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Authetical waterways
Buildings in an urban structure

• Waterways characterise the authentical urban
  structure because former necessity for
• urban transport
• water supply
• open severage

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Statement 2
Historic water is a necessity to sell the city

• Part of the trade mark, the brand, of the city
• The trigger of the authenticity of public space
• Historic water essential element of the
  historic inner city

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Public Private
Attractiveness of the quality of history makes
the historic inner city the
Place to visit Place to be Place to stay Place to
live to do business
Raise in economic turnover Raise in real estate
value Raise in real estate prices and rents
Public Private Partnership
And it delivers unique qualifications to sell the
city in the European competitive arena
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Twice as much
A house that can mirror itself in the water is
worth twice as much
Water is attractive Historic water is more
attractive Historic water in a cultural context
is most attractive
De Prinsengracht bij de Westertoren in 1967.
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Cost/benefit

• High benefits, but what about the costs?
• The urban structure is there for ever
• Water is for free
• Pavement is expensive

• But
• Parking brings in money
• public investment/private cashing
• long term agreement and contracts PPP

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Statements
Summarizing statements

• The faster society is changing, the more
  attention for the stability of history, the more
  popular preservation of cultural heritage
• The historic embedded identity, forms the
  counterpoint for the dominant influence of a
  levelling global culture
• The identity of any city lies in the historic
  inner city
•  
• Historic water is a necessity to sell the city
•  
• Economic power better grows along the water
  then between the stones

local or global identity, place identity or
architectural dropping, telling who you are is
telling where you come from, if you destroy
your roots you cannot grow (Hundertwasser)
Buildings and urban structure, waterways
characterise the autentical urban structure
Business is better in the center, stroll along
the water, higher turnover
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Artist impresiion
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Bridge in the mist