Circular Cities - Designing post industrial Amsterdam

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The spatial potential of the circular post-industrial city is represented in the hypothetical diagram below. On the basis of the stakeholder, metabolism and context analyses in the first phase, we are capable of creating a potentiality card on which the most promising directions of development for a circular Buiksloterham are made visible. This diagram is a hypothesis of the possibilities a circular city has to offer. We do see, however, that there is no lack of (design) ideas for the circular city, but that there is the risk that the development, confronted by local circumstances, remains stuck in ambitions and rules. This is why we are not only searching for a challenge for designers, but also for the force field from which a circular city can arise.

The resilient circular city is not designed; it is allowed to arise. space for purifying ecological structures that produce energy

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potential for environmental remediation, biomass production en parks on polluted soils vacant land can develop into unique nature areas microport for goods and people, transport based on hydogen and sustainable energy

soil as resource for additional value for society. using existing means for innovation

Use of (heat from) canal water

15km1 of quay potential for r and ecology

To highway 5 min. by car internal soil balace i/o bringing in from outside the city decentralised processing of waste water Recovery of nutrients and removal of microscopic contaminants Shared facilities

waste recycling facility and thrift shop potential source of (building)material local repare and reuse facility

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