Print Email Facebook Twitter Regeneration of the Urban Coastal area of Scheveningen: Pearl by the Sea Title Regeneration of the Urban Coastal area of Scheveningen: Pearl by the Sea Author Oorschot, L.M. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department Urbanism Date 2013-12-01 Abstract Nowhere was the advancing globalization so visible as in the coastal area of Scheveningen, one of northwest Europe’s seaside resorts with a wealthy tradition nearby the capital city of The Hague. In the 19th century a consortium of bankers from Paris, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam established a fashionable European beach resort right next to a medieval fishing village with a Kurhaus Spa and Casino accessible to the general public. At the end of the 20th century the bathing resort lost its image and most of the fishing industry moved away leaving the coastal zone in a crisis. The municipality decided to give the coastline an economic impulse. Not only that, their ambitions were grandiose. In 2005 they got the idea to make Scheveningen the Second International Center of The Hague with impressive architecture and town planning. The beach, the old fishing village, and the fishery at the harbor were connected into a close urban ensemble by the North Sea by a splendid boulevard. However, the financial crisis in 2008 put an end to extravagant developmental plans, to the great relief of coastal residents. They especially feared the expansion of tourism into the residential areas even though tourism had brought and would continue to bring prosperity to the area. The old fishing village was kept intact while the harbor transformed quite differently than sketched and the seaside decayed, losing to its rival the First International Center: the old town of The Hague. How could this have happened to the Pearl on the Sea? Was it the crisis or the stubbornness of residents and entrepreneurs? Or was it the unworldliness of administrators? To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:681dd73a-c5a4-4ca8-9578-d7929bd80f69 DOI https://doi.org/10.6092/2281-4574/2045 ISSN 1974-6849 Source TRIA - Territorio della Ricerca su Insediamenti e Ambiente. Rivista internazionale di cultura urbanistica, (11/2), 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2014 CC BY- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Files PDF 313519.pdf 1.06 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:681dd73a-c5a4-4ca8-9578-d7929bd80f69/datastream/OBJ/view