srsa 06b villages and metropolis pg

Summary: The s-RSA presents the future spatial policy of the city of Antwerp. This policy consists of a generic or city-wide vision and an active or project-based approach. The generic policy can be described as follows: The generic policy is made up of seven images: water city, eco city, port city, railway city, porous city, villages and metropolis and mega city. These images together form the collective memory of the inhabitants and visitors of the city. From a generic approach, strategic policy means prioritising a number of goals, structured according to the images of the city, which in turn determine strategic selections and measures. These selections form the basis for the selection cards. · The images of the city form the frame of reference that every project relating to Antwerp must take into account. This framework is made up of rules drawn up from each image. Since the generic rules apply to the entire territory of the city, the active policy (the spaces, programmes and projects) must also focus on this. The image of the ‘villages and metropolis’ is one of the seven images within the s-RSA. This image is subdivided into a few subimages: Police-centric city, heritage, living, working and recreation. The sub-image villages and metropolis – policentric, indicates that Antwerp, like many other European cities, has a tradition of several villages in a metropolis and metropolitan functions in villages. Today, the interrelationship between the villages and the metropolis is evolving. Antwerp is now part of the metropolitan network, creating new relationships between the villages and the metropolis. On the one hand, the city must be experienced as a collection of neighbourhoods that can retain their recognisability, livability and independence, up to a certain level. This means that trade, services and employment must be distributed among these cores. In this context, interweaving is an important concept. On the other hand, the image of Antwerp as a metropolis needs to be revalued. It is an image of a metropolis with its economic clout and its cultural importance. For example, the diamond sector, fashion sector, university as a centre of excellence should be strengthened, cultural events should continue to be promoted and the quality of tourism should be improved. As an objective, a distinction is made between these for the metropolis and those for the villages. The metropolis must preserve cultural-historical heritage, image-defining and image-supporting buildings; it should renew the urban fabric and develop representative and metropolitan economic functions. The metropolitan area is considered to be all parts of the hard backbone (see active policies). The villages need to strengthen their centre in order to acquire their own identity and a role in the urban, regional and metropolitan context. The centres are divided into urban and neighbourhood centres. The urban centres are: Hoboken, Wilrijk, Kiel, Gitschote, Fruithof, Deurne Zuid, Deurne Noord, Merksem, Luchtbal, Ekeren, Lillo, Berendrecht, Zandvliet, Linkeroever. The neighborhood centers, in the nineteenth century belt are: Sint – Jansplein, De Coninckplein, Kerkstraat, Oud Borgerhout, Zurenborg, Oud Berchem, Markgrave Doel: Visualization of the selection map 06B_villages_and_metropolis of the sRSA,The demarcations are not hard limits, and can be further specified in the implementation process. The selection map is not a zoning plan or a land use plan. The card does not confirm or deny building rights Creation: The selection maps are the result of the conversion of the seven formatted images of the city into shape format. The autocad maps and the corresponding grids were used as a basis for this. The drawing was done using the large-scale basic map of the city of Antwerp.