On Friday October 7, SprintCity and partners presented the interactive video debate 'Station to City', on international practices of Transit Oriented Development (TOD). National and international experts in the field discussed strategies for TOD.

Related:
| SprintCity |
| Update #4 |
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Downloads:
| SprintCity booklet 'the Atlanta BeltLine' | (lecture, interview and debate with Ryan Gravel, PDF)
| Detailed programme list of videos | (PDF)
The video debate 'Station to City' took place at Lantaren/Venster, as part of the | Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam | (AFFR). It was organised by Association Deltametropolis and sponsored by Movares, NS-Poort, Next Generation Infrastructures and Stedenbaan Plus. Moderator for the debate was Joost Schrijnen (TU Delft). Videos of TOD practices in three different continents were screened.
Each continent was introduced by a keynote speaker:
- The American Way | Ryan Gravel
Creating pockets of urban areas with public transportation in a
car-oriented country
- The Asian Way | Slavis Poczebutas
Intense integration of urban development, lifestyle and public transport
- The European Way | Sebastiaan de Wilde
New policies for increasing public transport use
A selection of the featured videos:
Portland - a sense of place (E2-PBS, 2008)
Atlanta BeltLine (Beltline Inc., 2010)
Octopus Card (Richie Gelles, 2004)
My Tokyo (Alary Romain, 2009)
Tokyo - a room with a view (Koen Klinkers and IABR, 2008)
Sweden Doubling Project (Mirakel Film, 2011)
Moving Platforms (Paul Priestman, 2011)
Debate partners and sponsors
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The New Planning is a collaborative research project between Deltametropolis Association and TU Delft. A consortium of academic, civil society, government and market sectors is being created to meet the urgent need for a new model of strategic spatial planning that will keep the Netherlands at the forefront of territorial governance.