The documentary Strategic Vision Randstad 2040 (2008) offers a rare glimpse into how planners and policymakers from around the world thought about the future of one of Europe’s largest metropolitan regions. This film and subsequent dialogue will look back and consider what we have learned over the past 17 years.

About Strategic Vision Randstad 2040

In September 2008, the Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning presented the “Strategic Vision Randstad 2040”. This new vision aims to set the conditions for the development of the Randstad in the Netherlands as a competitive and sustainable European top-region by the year 2040.

Filmed in 2008, this documentary captures a dynamic event where an international group of experts came together to review and reflect on the strategic vision for the Randstad 2040. It’s a rare glimpse into how planners and policymakers from around the world considered the future of one of Europe’s largest metropolitan regions.The outcome of this event was fruitful. The need to set up a new research agenda and bring attention to key-projects was felt strongly. An emphasis was placed upon the need for an independent, inspiring third party, in order to help develop and speed-up these initiatives.

The film invites us to reflect on the statements made in 2008, and how they resonate or clash with today’s challenges. Have we made progress on distributed living in a networked city? How has the global and European context changed, especially considering the climate crisis? And what role can an independent, inspiring organization like Vereniging Deltametropool play in bridging visions and realities today?

Looking back now, we ask ourselves: what have we learned in the 17 years since?

Program

• 13:00 International Planning Review Introduction by VDM
• 13:10 Introducing Randstad 2040
• 13:40 Distributed living in a networked city
• 14:10 Placing the randstad in a global and european context
• 14:50 Wrap-up
• 15:00 End

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