Water Sensitive Cities

FLORIAN BOER: DE URBANISTEN/NL
WATER SENSITIVE CITIES

De Urbanisten is founded by Florian Boer (1969) and Dirk van Peijpe (1962).
They are an innovative office for urban design and landscape architecture from Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
De Urbanisten consists of an international team of architects, urban designers and landscape architects.

De Urbanisten are responsible for the Rotterdam Climate Adaptation Strategy, the conceptualization and design of the water square Benthemplein and the climate proofing of the surrounding urban district. They are deeply involved in the National Deltaprogram on Watersafety. In 2014 the office was one of the winners of the “Rebuild by Design” process in the New York/ New Jersey region to propose a regional flood resilient design for the Meadowlands in New Jersey. De Urbanisten are exploring with a coalition of stakeholders the future perspective of the Meuse River as a Tidal Park along the entire Rotterdam region. Recently they have opened a second water square in the city of Tiel. Internationally they are expanding their horizon with watersensitive projects in Mexico, Belgium and Denmark. In Copenhagen De Urbanisten are designing the cities first ‘cloudburst street’.