Harvest of four years of renewal in Amsterdam Watergraafsmeer


How can water contribute to creating a climate-resilient and liveable urban environment? For four years long, the Amsterdam polder Watergraafsmeer was a testing ground for new work methods, measures and innovations that were then integrated into existing projects.

Results

The WATERgraafsmeer programme involved a search for a new role for water in the city. Waternet and the urban district of Amsterdam Oost realised that water had the potential to bring a mass of social interests together. But in the existing approach of our (management) organisation, these opportunities were left largely unexploited. Measures were primarily taken from the perspective of individual tasks, rather than based on an integral approach that also involved the neighbourhood. The approach of the programme, in contrast, was that water management should serve society, instead of serving the focus of government and the management organisation.

In the magazine, the WATERgraafsmeer programme presents the harvest of four years of renewal in Amsterdam. Here you will find a treasure-trove of experiences and lessons from four years of area-oriented work on climate-proofing the city. The results of WATERgraafsmeer are just as diverse as they are innovative and cannot be described within the bounds of clichés.

Contact persons

Maarten Claassen
Waternet
+31(0)20 - 60 83 625
maarten.claassen@waternet.nl

Pascal Hament
Urban districts of Amsterdam Oost
+31(0)20 - 25 34 128
p.hament@oost.amsterdam.nl


Results appeared on
Project type
Study
Participant
Urban districts of Amsterdam Oost & Waternet
Scale
District / neighborhood
Theme
Waterlogging
Type of project
Development, Policy, Research
Phase
Completed