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in this issue
news 8
Urbanism in Europe
Peter Walker’s empty spots in New York
Book: the best landscape architecture in Europe
Moscow s building a new district
Designing for New Orleans after Katrina
Lexicon concerning landscape architecture
London is condensed with new houses
portrait 50
Karres en Brands landschapsarchitecten have created a
major landscape architectural oeuvre that is starting to
receive international recognition. Metropolitan design
skills characterise the office, as do independent thinking,
remarkable sensitivity for context, and an ability to
reinvent themselves anew with every project.
essay 60
On the tourist-recreational map of Europe hotspots and
trendy activities follow each other up at a fast pace,
cities and regions are developing their hinterland and
landscapes are made available for consumptive development.
Enough challenges for European landscape
designers, according to Johan Meeus.
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Near Copenhagen, Denmark, an elongated beach park
has been built in front of the island of Amager.
Concrete constructions create a confusion, but they also
give an identity to the beach.
The Dutch resort Egmond aan Zee has given its North-
Sea side a facelift according to the current fashion in
the public space design: plain, empty, well-organised
and beautifully stylised materials.
With its coastal project the Spanish town of Salou is
hiding from the intrusive tourism that dominates the
coastal areas. The park connects the Mediterranean Sea
to its hinterland in a natural way.
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In this column we focus on special city maps. For exam-
ple, this tourist map from the American map publisher
Meridian Graphics. ‘Portrait San Francisco’ is one of the
more beautiful copies.
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