An urban design and a landscape design for the hills on the southern edge of Heerlen. The plan gives shape to a spatial concept in which suburban living adds a new scenic feature to the existing wooded area. Suburban living has been designed as a landscape of large plots and gardens. The way rainwater is discharged has been utilised as a spatially structuring principle in this residential landscape. This has resulted in a terraced landscape of ‘graften’ and ‘grubben’, which enhances the scenic and ecological qualities of the nearby wood.

The plan highlights the freedom of individual residents to shape their own domains. Paradoxically, it has also brought about a set of clever strategic rules, providing individual freedom with a firm framework.

The plan comprises 400 upmarket non-subsidised owner-occupied houses and 30 ha of a new wood and is the result of a limited competition commissioned by the Heerlen Municipality and Hoogveld bv.

The book documents sixteen projects, organized into the themes regional scale, urban expansions, new residential areas, interventions in the inner-city texture, postwar areas and public space. Among the projects are expansive schemes such as Amsterdam IJburg, a design for an urban extension to Amsterdam with a total area of 450 hectares.

The IJssel valley with her Hanzecities is one of the most beautiful Dutch landscapes.
To cope with the increasing amounts of riverwater the government came up with a few measures for Zutphen and it’s region in the programme ‘Ruimte voor de rivier’ (Space for the river).
Provincial and communal authorities have investigated how to accomplish these goals along with their own ambitions on housing, traffic and landscape, under the motto ‘Right at once’.
The chosen strategy is to create more space for the river by making a parallel riverbed, which will, when the waterlevel rises, flow along the main riverbed. The measures for widening the riverbed will have to be realized before 2015.
The former IJsselmeander and the streams on the Veluweside will be connected to form a coherent landscape as a connection between the forests of the Veluwe and the river IJssel.
The jump over the IJssel is the urban development of 3000 houses for the city of Zutphen at the opposing riverbank. It  is to be the extension of the existing neighbourhood De Hoven near the IJsselbridge. It will spread to the west along the former IJsselmeander and to the south along the riverdike. Green wedges and existing urban ribbons provide visible connections to the cityscape of Zutphen. They also make a gradual marking between the new urban area and the surrounding landscape.
The new diversion of the regional road ensures the decrease of traffic within the De Hoven. It meanders from the northwest (the village of Voorst) to the southern IJsselbridge. As a parkway it offers a scenic view on the Veluwe, the jump over the IJssel and the towers of Zutphen on the horizon.