Staging Urban Experiences in Suburbia: The Case of Citadel, Almere

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Abstract

Urban design provides props, requisites and decors for staging the users' performances in space. Design may facilitate or impede specific ways of moving around, interacting with objects and other people, feeling, learning and sense making.The actual design may very well contradict the explicit intentions of decision makers when commissioning, financing or planning new urban environments. Our case, the building of a new city centre for the Dutch city of Almere, illustrates this point. The project was supervised by Rem Koolhaas (OMA) and aimed at branding the city as a truly urban environment with a metropolitan-like allure. The realization og the design nonetheless favors suburbanite qualities of experiencing rather than urbanite ones.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArchitecture and Stages of the Experience City
EditorsHans Kiib
Place of PublicationAalborg
PublisherDepartment of Architecture and Design, Aalborg University
Publication date2009
Pages49-58
Publication statusPublished - 2009
SeriesInstitut for Arkitektur og Design Skriftserie
Volume30
ISSN1603-6204

Keywords

  • experience
  • experience city
  • experience economy
  • experience design
  • performativity
  • performance design
  • suburbia
  • Almere
  • Rem Koolhaas

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