Presentation Title
planning and design strategies on rural decline

Biography

Arjen Brouwer (1978) studied Regional Planning at the University of Groningen. He got his Master-degree in 2002. Since then he has worked as a staff-officer on the Dutch Council on Urban and Regional Planning Research in The Hague, as a researcher at – again – the University of Groningen and now for some years as a consultant for PAU in Groningen (www.pau.nl). PAU u.o. is responsible for the management of the INTERREG project DC NOISE. During the past year Arjen Brouwer his main engagements have been the management of a spatial development project in the community of Hoogezand-Sappemeer where an area of 700 acres is to be transformed into an attractive housing and recreation landscape - this, to attract new inhabitants to Hoogezand-Sappemeer instead of the vulnerable natural and historic landscapes in the nearby region - and the design laboratory ‘Rural Decline’ for the community of Dongeradeel.

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