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Housing (Growth and Decline)

Lessons for Albacete, Spain

Bryant Tan | 11.951 - Simulating Sustainable Futures | 9.18.07



City of Almere (Netherlands)

New town built in 1975

Population: 181,960

Insipired by Garden Towns in England

Growth allowed for city with several cores

Each neighborhood/area reflects the changing ideas of architecture and planning of their time



About Almere





Housing in the Netherlands







• Land use: 68.9% of the land is used for agriculture, 19% of the surface is occupied by water

• A typical feature of population (and housing) distribution is that there are no really very large cities in the Netherlands

• 1960s government policy aimed at spreading population and employment opportunities to new towns

• 1990s housing policy aimed at concentrating developments within towns and cities

• 80% housing dates from 1945

• 46% housing stock is rental

• 35% (2.4 million dwellings) is social housing, 75% of rental



UC Merced (Merced, California, United States)





Campus opened in 20056 miles from downtown MercedProjected enrollment of 25,000 students by 2030Expansion: 910 adjacent acres

New University Community Next to Campus~ 31,000 people2,100 acresto includes 11,600 homes

Plans for growth





Coordination with City of Merced

• Future population growth

~ 145,000 by 2015

~ 240,000 by 2035.

• Need 48,000 housing units (3 per du)



The Great Plains (United States)



Almost two-thirds of the 376 counties in the Great Plains lost people from 1950 to 2006. Four counties in North Dakota lost two-thirds or more of their population in that time.

The region's population almost doubled to 9.7 million during the same period, largely because of growth in metropolitan areas such as Denver, Wichita and Billings, Montana.

Conservation and reuse of land• Reclaiming land from farming to convert into wildlife reservations (Buffalo Commons)• Federal government’s Conservation Reserve Program claimed 18 million acres in 2006 from the Great Plains (half of national farmland reclaimed)

Tourism• Eco tourism• Lewis and Clark Trail motorcoach tours (Nebraska)

Encouraging settlement• 1862 Homestead Act• Land for cheap or free ()• Capitalization of information technology and declined need to be in metro areas• Debt forgiveness

Planning for shrinking cities• Youngstown, Ohio







Dealing with shrinking

http://kansasfreeland.com/

Immigration and population grows

Greater need for housing

New development

Population declining in smaller, rural, and historic towns

Availability of housing

Restoration and rehabilitation possibilities

Grow where? Decline where?

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