Overview of Regeneration Scheme Kop van Zuid (“Southern Headland”) is a peninsula on the south bank of the River Maas directly opposite Rotterdam’s city centre. It covers some 125 ha and used to be an important port area with docks, a shipyard and a terminal for ocean-going liners, but all these activities closed down when the port moved downstream to the mouth of the river during in the 1960s and 1970s, and Kop van Zuid
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Social media brings to the country a sense of connectivity — to be a part of something bigger than oneself and a feeling that together, people can actually make a difference. The pages of Twitter and Facebook are filled with numerous organizations with different goals — the goals that they aim to achieve from the ground up. “With digital technology, it is like social relationships are now on steroids” said Enda Nasution, a popular blogger
Read moreRoosie Setiawan, Nila Tanzil, Dan Roberts and Sigit Kusumawijaya. Chances are you have never heard of these people. They are not headline-grabbing politicians, government officials, celebrities or wealthy tycoons. They are just people who are making a small difference in this country, but the way they go about it is instructive. In the course of hosting the talk show “Insight Indonesia” on BeritaSatu TV, I have had the pleasure of meeting all sorts of people
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Using vacant land in Jakarta Sigit Kusumawijaya and the group Indonesia Berkebun (Indonesia Gardening) have started a social movement to use vacant land in Jakarta and other cities to plant food crops. Find out how they did it. Insight Indonesia is the Jakarta Globe’s talk show – in English – on Beritasatu TV. Host Lin Neumann, the founding editor of the Jakarta Globe, interviews business leaders, celebrities, diplomats, newsmakers and analysts on a range of
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Young Indonesians are breathing new life into their polluted concrete capital city with little more than buckets of soil and seeds. A group of mostly young professionals, known as Gardening Indonesia, has joined the global urban farming movement, converting vacant patches of land between Jakarta’s skyscrapers into lush green vegetable gardens. “There’s concrete, concrete, everywhere. But if we look hard enough, there is vacant land we can farm,” said Sigit Kusumawijaya, 30, watering freshly planted
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Rapid urbanization has effectively separated people from the food they consume, which results in a majority of people in big cities being unfamiliar with how their food is grown. A small group in Jakarta, however, has been trying to reverse this trend and decided to grow its own food. Armed with scraps of borrowed land and little knowledge about farming, these people are trying to do almost the impossible: become urban farmers. One such hopeful
Read moreFrom the seed of an idea floated on Twitter in November, a new social movement that encourages urban farming in the capital has finally bloomed with its official launch on Sunday. Ridwan Kamil, a prominent architect who started the group with the hashtag #jakartaberkebun, spoke at the launch at Springhill Golf Residence in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta. He said the Jakarta Berkebun (Jakarta Gardening) movement aimed to turn thousands of hectares of abandoned and vacant land
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Context In 1996, West 8 was commissioned to transform Borneo and Sporenburg, two expansive massive docks on Amsterdam’s eastern waterfront, into residential neighborhoods with 2,500 housing units. The program called for suburban-style, low-rise housing, each with a front door opening onto the street, to be introduced into a high-density urban setting with 100 units per hectare (roughly 2.5 acres), three times the density of a typical suburban development. These requirements resulted in a design that
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