Housing Matters! ULI Asia Pacific Summit 2018

Wednesday, June 6 2018 Bob van der Zande Metropolitan Region

From fishermens village to small metropole

Knowledge-based City 1985- Modern City 1950-1985 Industrial City 1830-1950

Trade City 1200-1830 City of immigrants since 14th century

Immigrants 1962 1600-1700, Canals, golden century

Every kind of people Bikeble city, for every one and every age, modal split over 50% and growing Waterway: the IJ Port Canal district International business district

Airport

16 km >851.000 inhabitants

12 Public land lease system since 1896 230.000 contracts, € 4,5 billion value, + € 200 mln each year

Changing the system: From ‘temporary’ to ‘everlasting’ contracts: “you only pay once” 450.000 Housing stock Figure showing owner occupied properties MRA Housing Law since 1901 118 years of social housing Amsterdamse School, 1915 Plan Zuid Berlage,1917

Amsterdam Extension Plan, Cornelis van Eesteren, 1936 Roaring seventies: slowly starting of the awareness of urban renewal Eastern Harbour area: housing with green is blue

Overheated historic centre Value of houses for sale, per m2 Homes to life in or bricks of gold?

Solutions ? 1. Built more city, accelerate the planning Spatial Strategy Direction 2025 on top of Structure Plan 2010

2. Built more homes: all kind of pushing mechanisms and policies to speed up the building process and ‘special programmes’.

 Surface for a house with a rent of € 980, 2015! Tendering locations

Nr. locatie en kavel 1 kavel 5FG 2 Spaarndammerschool 3 Sloterdijk kavel O 4 Sloterdijk kavel N3 5 Bakemapark Zuid 6 August Allebéplein blok 2 7 Lelylaan Podium kavel F 8 Amstelkwartier 2e fase kavel 4F 9 Amstelkwartier 2e fase kavel 4GH 10 Café de 11 Amstelstation blok BC 12 Ringdijk 44 13 Archimedesplantsoen 14 Karspeldreef E+F 15 IJburg Sluishuis 3. Densify the existing urban tissue: high rise and up topping etc.

Amstelstation Rental apartments Amsterdam North, ,De Strip , The Valley (MVRDV) Residential & offices Amstelkwartier Blok 1 Haut (Team V) Houthaven (Arons & Gelauff) Sluisbuurt Mixed use Inner City project, with over 5.000 new homes High rise and Amsterdam are not an easy match 4. More innovation in new building techniques: sustainability, new energy sources, prefab etc. Buiksloterham – Patch22 en BlackJack 5. Participation, self built homes Selfbuild housing 500 homes/year Self built houses, growing segment Independent from economic crisis 6. Transformation existing stock and ‘brownfields’

Transformation vacant offices Sloterdijk-Centrum N-Kavel Transformation prison Bijlmerbajes (AM with AT Capital, Cairn and designersteam OMA/ FABRICations /LOLA Landscape Architects) 7. Making new land Houthaven Waterfront IJburg, new land, second phase under construction New land IJburg Mainly selfbuild homes

Urbanising the Port of Amsterdam: Havenstad

7. Changing the mindset Amsterdam = Metropolitan Region Amsterdam Amsterdam = Holland Metropole Thank you very much for your attention