Climate adaptation, health and energy transition are all opportunities to strengthen South Holland’s business climate and livability. In addition, the region is facing a substantial housing challenge, putting additional pressure on the landscape.
In response, the vision was developed for a metropolitan landscape park on the scale of the South Holland region. This creates a green-blue network metropolis in which city and landscape are connected and permeated.
The spatial structure of this landscape park is the cultural-historical water system along which the cities grew. With lines like the Schie and Oude Rijn rivers. These water structures not only define the identity of their surroundings, but also form the structures that connect between different scales within the urban landscape.
Within the landscape park, landscapes around, between and within cities are therefore well connected, accessible and of metropolitan quality. The landscape park has a layered structure. Green-blue structures form lines of development to shape urbanisation along. The landscapes in between (interior landscapes) provide buffers between built-up areas. Within cities, there is ample space for urban green space (parks, nature, green streets) and transformation areas.
Year: 2017 (update 2023)
Type: vision, region, strategy landscape
I.c.w.: Bura (lead) and Vereniging Deltametropool
Client: Province of South Holland
Extent: approximately 3400 km2
Status: completed
