Foreword
The street is back on the agenda of the architect, the urbanist and the landscape architect. That is less obvious than it might seem. The curse put on the ‘rue corridor‘ by Le Corbusier and CIAM in the 1930s reverberated for a long time in post-war urbanism. The street as a space defined by a continuous line development disappeared and was replaced by an asymmetrical arrangement of plots lining both sides of traffic arteries in different gradations. To be sure, the street was rediscovered in the 1960s as a ‘form of living together‘ and, a little later, as an historical element that could be reused in urban and neighbourhood renewal. But it would be some decades before the traditional street would again assume a main role as a formal theme in urban design. Henk Hartzema — who took up the position of lecturer in Design in Urbanism at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture during 2009-2010 — deployed the 5