Átmeneti város: Tartós ideiglenes városi beavatkozások Hollandia nagyvárosaiban
Transitional City: Sustainable Temporary Urban Interventions in Major Cities in the Netherlands

Summary/Abstract: We often deal with the conditions of the past or try to find the ideal solution to the issues of the future, but in this study we focus on what happens “in the meantime.” When the usual patterns are overwritten due to sudden changes, but it is not yet clear what will replace them. Planning for the “now”, knowing that it will not last long, but helping to ensure that the change is positive. The use of quickly implemented and easily adaptable, permanently temporary urban interventions as a targeted urban development strategy aims at precisely this. Although interventions planned for 10–15 years are considered a particularly short time in the life of a city, a well-managed project can enhance the value of an area that has been under- or poorly utilized until now, including it in the city’s circulation. This method is also used in the case of larger cities in the Netherlands. In a country struggling with a huge housing shortage and at the same time with limited spatial resources, more and more places have started to develop areas that are difficult to build on and considered risky from an investor’s perspective. But how can depopulated or disadvantaged urban areas be re-integrated into the life of the city? The answer lies in catalytic temporary interventions that re-function these areas. Consciously short-term planning prepares for increasingly frequent and dynamic changes, and provides space for experimentation. In this way, the design process is simultaneously more bound by time and material, while at the same time freed from the pressure of permanence. Due to their temporality, these are projects shaped by design principles that include subsequent demolition or relocation. The aim of this essay is to present these different attitudes and describe the urban processes they generate.

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