Hoe kunnen initiatiefnemers van stedelijke transformatie omgaan met versnipperd eigendom? Welke strategieën kunnen initiatiefnemer(s) hanteren bij versnipperd eigendom? Wat betekenen de strategieën voor grondtransacties, samenwerking, tempo en onderlinge afhankelijkheid van kavels? Hobma, F. Heurkens, E., & Van der Wal, H. (2019). Versnipperd Grondeigendom: Hoe ga je om met verschillende grondeigenaren bij binnenstedelijke transformatie. Stedelijke Transformatie…

Erwin Heurkens, 20 May 2019, Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat, Den Haag A Working Group on Alternative Financing of Infrastructure from the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (IenW) asked me to provide a lecture about UK planning tools that enable public infrastructure to be partially financed by private urban property development. Three planning/development…

Erwin Heurkens, 9 May 2019, TU/e Eindhoven This presentation held at the TU/e for the Urban Case Studies course identifies and discusses the main characteristics of urban area development. It portrays area development as an interdisciplinary and applied scientific and empirical domain.

Het realiseren van klimaatdoelen is complex, omdat er vaak een gat bestaat tussen beleidsintenties en acties. Gebiedsontwikkeling kan een belangrijke drager zijn voor de implementatie van energiebeleid. Door in gebieden energie-oplossingen te integreren, leveren zij een bijdrage aan de energietransitie. In dit artikel laat onderzoeker Erwin Heurkens (TU Delft, Gebiedsontwikkeling) zien hoe gemeenten in Denemarken,…

Governing climate mitigation is complex, as the recurring gap between policy intentions and actions exhibits. Interventions at the urban scale represent an opportunity to implement energy policy targets. Urban development projects can function as carrier to implement innovative energy solutions as ‘by-product’. To do so, planners must proactively and strategically deploy planning instruments to influence…

Cities all over the world are searching for ways to become more resilient to climate change effects and related economic challenges. The general consensus seems to be that resilience refers to the ability of a system to respond to exogenous and endogenous pressures. Resilient urban redevelopment through sustainable building adaption could possibly be a strategy,…

MASTER CITY DEVELOPER By Erwin Heurkens Master City Developer, 5 September 2017, Rotterdam

University of Birmingham Field Trip 2017 (Delft-Rotterdam) By Erwin Heurkens Lecture, 4 April 2017, Delft (TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture)

At a time of public sector retrenchment in urban regeneration it has become increasingly important to understand how planners can help create better places. Recent studies suggest that planners must behave as market actors by strategically deploying planning tools to influence market behaviour. In this context, this paper examines how local planning authorities use a…

Throughout history there has always been a clear distinction in the citymaking process between the role of the Administration as a planner and manager of public infrastructures and spaces and the role of private entities as property developers and builders. Following a general economic trend on privatization of public functions, in recent years we have seen private entities…