Print Email Facebook Twitter Deconstructing Rotterdam's modern city centre Title Deconstructing Rotterdam's modern city centre Author Van der Hoeven, F.D. Faculty Architecture Department Urbanism Date 2013-12-31 Abstract In the 20th century, the Dutch city of Rotterdam was radically transformed from a historic town into a modern city, becoming the selfacclaimed 'city of architecture', home to international architectural design offices, publishers and institutions. Although it is already 60 years after the destruction of the Rotterdam inner city, the city still struggles to be the vibrant, rigorous urban environment it needs to be in order to attract the so-called creative class. This article provides a contextual overview of the transformations of a number of key public spaces that are symbolic for the challenges the city faces. After the post-war reconstruction the city continuous to transform beyond modernism. Subject urban designpublic spacemodernismNieuwe BouwenreconstructionRotterdamcity centreCoolsingelLijnbaanRotterdam ForumCool63SchouwburgpleinDudokMVRDVOMAWest 8Allies & MorrisonBenthem & Crouwel To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2f9433b6-b14d-4510-acb2-359951f55055 Publisher Vostoksibacademcenter ISSN 2307-4485 Source Project Baikal, (36), 2013, article in Russian and English Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2013 Van der Hoeven, F.D Files PDF 295333.pdf 1.09 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:2f9433b6-b14d-4510-acb2-359951f55055/datastream/OBJ/view