Curriculum Vitae L. (Luuk) Boelens Dr.Ir. Personal information Surname/First name Boelens, Luuk Address:
Ghent University Centre for Mobility and Spatial Planning Vrijdagmarkt 10/301 floor 3, room 3.06 Ghent B-9000 Belgium
Phone:
+32 (0)9 3313254 +32 (0)9 3313251 (secretariat)
Cell:
+32 (0)4 71803163
Fax:
+32 (0)9 3313269
Mail:
[email protected]
Web:
www.planning.ugent.be
Date of birth:
20 December 20th 1957 in Den Haag
Nationality:
Dutch
Gender:
Male
Workexperience Dates
2012-present
Occupation
Full Professor Spatial Planning and Regional development University of Ghent, Belgium
Dates
2004-2012
Occupation
Quest Professor Scientific Applications to Spatial Planning (on behalf of ministry of VROM) University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
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2000-present
Occupation
Acting Director Urban Unlimited Urban Planning Firm, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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1998-2002
Occupation
Project leader and Senior advisor Holland Railconsult (Movares) Utrecht, The Netherlands
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1991-1998
Occupation
Project leader and (vice) Head of the RORO-Team Planning team of the Randstadprovinces, Haarlem, The Netherlands
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1983-1991
Occupation
(Senior) Regional planner Province of South Holland, The Netherlands
Teaching Experience Dates
2012-present Several mastercourses Urban and Regional Planning, Planningtheory, Regional Economics University of Ghent
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2008-2012 Researchmaster Regional Planning University of Utrecht
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2005-2012 Mastercourse Beyond Urban Planning University of Utrecht
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1998-2006 Quest lectures Universities of Pretoria, ETH Zürich, University of Utrecht, Technical University of Delft
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2001-2204 Tutor Academy of Architecture and Urban Planning Tilburg
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1996-2002 Tutor Academy of Architecture and Urban Planning Rotterdam
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1994-2000 Tutor Academy of Architecture and Urban Planning Amsterdam
Education and training Dates
1983-1990 Phd. Modern Urban Planning, an unfinished project; Towards communicative action in spatial planning Technical University of Delft, University Utrecht, University Groningen
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1980-1983 Master of Science Technical University Delft, Specialisation urban design & planning
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1976-1980 M.D. in Urban Planning & design Technical University Delft
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1970-1976 Gymnasium B, CLR Delft
Personal skills and competences Mother tongue
Dutch
Other language(s) Self-assessment Understanding
European level (*)
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Reading
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Spoken production
English
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German
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(*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Key qualifications Worked several years for the Dutch Province of South Holland as project leader for large projects, such as the ‘Expansion of the seacoast between Schevingen and Hook van Holland’, ‘Parkcity between Parliament and Port (The Hague-Rotterdam)’, the ‘Randstadvision 2020’, Agricultural vision Randstad, Mobility plan Randstad etc. Worked for eight years as a strategic planner and (vice) head of the provincial Randstaddepartment and as projectleader for several governance projects in the area. Worked from 1998-2002 as a senior project-leader for large infrastructure projects (such as the High Speed Train lines) on behalf of the Dutch consultancy firm Holland Railconsult (at the moment Movares). Was lead applicant for several EU projects of INTERREG IIIC, Since 2001 acting manager of Urban Unlimited, consultancy in urban development and town and country planning in the network society. From 2004-2012 extraordinary professor in Networkplanning, Governance and Space at the University of Utrehct on behalf of the ministry of VROM. Since 2012 (full) professor of Spatial Planning and Mobility of the Centre for Mobility and Spatial Planning at the University of Ghent. Luuk Boelens is opinion leader and author of various books and articles regarding the actor relational approach of (urban) planning, governance and design. He has been member of several major juries on spatial planning, such as ‘Het aanzien van Nederland’ and the ‘Maaskantprijs’. He is and had been editor of several urban design and planning journals, such as Oase, Archis, S&RO, Ruimte etc. He reviews for several international journals such as European Planning Studies, Planningtheory, Planningtheory and Practice, Urban Studies etc. He chairs academic review boards for VLIR/VLOHRA. He is member of AESOP and organises its year congress for 2014 in Utrecht. His recent research focuses on the
institutional rearrangements, co-evolution in decision-making and adaptive governance in especially the Eurodelta of Rhine, Meus and Scheldt, based on actor-network theories, poststructural geographies and common pool resource management. In these contexts two researchers obtained a PhD under his lead and six doctoral dissertations are in progress.
Publicationlist A. Scientific publications (peer reviewed)
Boelens, Luuk & Tom Coppens (2012) Actor relational approaches in post war housing estates in Belgium, Flanders – the case Luchtbal; in: Urban Studies (in progress).
Boelens, Luuk & Bart de Jong (2012) Understanding Amsterdam Airport Schiphol through controversies: A response to van Buuren, Boons and Teisman; in: Systems Research and Behavioral Science (in progress).
Boelens, Luuk, Jean Hillier, et al. (2011) Strategic planning in uncertainty: theory and exploratory practice; in: Town & Planning Review 82 (5) 2011, pp. 481-501.
Boelens, Luuk (2011) Going beyond planners’ dependencies: an actor-relational approach to Mainport Rotterdam. in: Town & Planning Review: Special Post-structural Geographies 82(5) 2011, pp. 547-572.
Boonstra, Beitske & Luuk Boelens (2011) Self-organisation in Urban Development: towards a new perspective on spatial planning; in: Urban Research & Practice Vol.4, No2, July 2011, pp. 99-122.
Boelens, Luuk (2010) Beyond the limits of imperfections: reflections on David Webb’s comments on an actor-relational-approach in planning; in: Planningtheory Vol 9(4) 2010, pp. 283-287.
Boelens, Luuk (2010) Reflections on Yvonne Rydin’s response to ‘Theorizing practice and practising theory; in: Planningtheory Vol 9(3) 2010, London: Sage Publications, pp. 269-271.
Boelens, Luuk (2010) Theorizing Practice and Practising Theory: Outlines for an actorrelational approach in planning; in: Planningtheory Vol 9(1) 2010, London: Sage Publications, pp. 1-35.
Boelens, Luuk (2010) Theorizing Practice and Practising Theory: Outlines for an actorrelational approach in planning; translated in Mandarin Chinese, Urban Planning International 2010 (5), pp. 73-87.
Boelens, Luuk (2006) Beyond the plan; towards a new kind of planning; in: DISP, ETHZürich 4-2006, pp. 25-40.
Boelens, Luuk (1997) Planers-(Alp)Traüme: Von Chiasso bis Roodenschool; in Collage-9, Zürich September 1997.
Boelens, Luuk (1995) De offentlichen Raum und das grünes Herz der Randstad; Das Arkadien, der Firlefanz und die kritische Landschaft; in Collage-3, Zürich march 1995.
Boelens, Luuk (1992) Randstad Holland: Towards a new regional balance in an united Europe; in Ekistics, Volume 59 (352/353), pp. 33-39.
B. Books
Boelens, Luuk et al. eds. (2011) Compact City Extended: Outline for future policy research and design, Rotterdam: O10-Publishers, ISBN 978-90-6450-747-2 (352 pages).
Boelens, Luuk (2009) The Urban Connection: An actor-relational approach to urban planning, Rotterdam: O10-Publishers, ISBN 978-90-6450-706-9 (308 pages).
Boelens, Luuk et al. (Eds.) (2006) Planning zonder overheid, een toekomst zonder planning, Rotterdam: O10-Publishers, ISBN 978-90-6450-627-7 (168 pages).
Boelens, Luuk & Wies Sanders (2003) De Grote/ The Big/ Der Grosse KAN Atlas – mental atlas of the Arnhem-Nijmegen Urban Network, Rotterdam: O10-Publishers, ISBN 90-6450-489-X (104 pages + more than 100 maps).
Boelens, Luuk ed. (2000) Netherlands Networkcountry: Towards a new approach in urbanism and city planning, Rotterdam: NAI-publishers, ISBN 90-5662-179-3 (192 pages).
Boelens, Luuk (1990) Stedebouw en planologie: een onvoltooid project (also published as doctoral thesis), Delft: DUP, ISBN 90-6275-634-4 (240 pages).
Boelens, Luuk (1985) Historie, Kritiek en Ontwerp: stadsontwerp en maatschappelijke ontwikkleing, Delft: DUP, ISBN 90-6275-178-4 (141 pages).
C. Bookchapters (peer reviewed)
Boelens, Luuk & Wouter Jacobs (2012) Mainport-Randstad-Translations: Relational connectivities in co-evolutionary perspectives; in Nadin, Vincent et al. eds. (2012) The Randstad book, Routledge (in progress).
Boelens, Luuk (2012) Decentralisation or co-evolution: a comparison of actual planning transitions in the UK, the Netherlands and Flanders; in: IBA (forthcoming)
Boelens, Luuk (2012) Decentralisierung oder Koeveolution: Ein vergleich der aktuellen Veränderungen im Planungsbereich Grossbritannien, den Niederlanden und Flandern; in: IBA (forthcoming)
Boelens, Luuk & Ed Taverne (2012) Why Cities Prosper as Deltas: The Urbanisation of the Eurodelta; in: Lucassen, Leo & Wim Willems eds. (2012) Living in the City: Urban Institutions in the Low Countries, 1200-2010, New York/London: Routledge, pp. 192-215.
Boelens, Luuk & Anne-Jo Visser (2011) Possible futures of self-construction: Post-structural reflections on ten years experiments with (c)po/mo; in: Lei, Qu et al. (eds.) (2011) Making Room for People: Choice, Voice and Liveability in residential places, Amsterdam: Techne Press, pp. 103-128.
Boelens, Luuk (2010) Planologie eXTended; Naar een nieuwe toekomst van ruimtelijk openbaar bestuur. in: Dijstelbloem, Huub, Paul den Hoed, Jan Willem Holtslag & Steven Schouten (red.) (2010) Het gezicht van de publieke zaak; Openbaar bestuur onder ogen. Den Haag: WRR/Amsterdam University Press, 185-204.
Boelens, Luuk (2009) Associative Mainport: an alternative for location based approaches; in: Van Gils, Marcel et al. (eds. 2009) The Dutch Mainports in discussion, Houten: Het Spectrum, pp. 185-195.
Boelens, Luuk (2008) Towards an uncompromised urbanism; in: Avermaete, Tom et al. eds. (2008) OASE 75, 25 years of Critical Reflections on Architecture, Rotterdam: NAI, April 2008, pp. 59-77.
Boelens, Luuk & Oedzge Atzema (2006) Connecting Randstad Holland - A network approach of competition between clusters; in Koekoek, A.F. et al. eds. (2006): Cities and globalisation, Nederlandse Geografische Studies 339, Utrecht, pp. 61-72.
Boelens, Luuk (2005) Streaming Spatial Planning -Technological changes and their impact on space; in: Hulsbergen Ed e.a. (eds.) (2005) Shifting Sense, Delft: DUP, pp. 2540.
Boelens, Luuk (1999) Time and Space in a diffused society; in: Friedrich, Sabine et.al. (1999) Ansichten zur Netzstadt, ETH, Zürich-ORL.
D. Bookchapters (edited)
Boelens, Luuk & Elien Wierenga (2011) Editorial; in: Boelens, Luuk et al. eds. (2011) Compact City Extended: Outline for future policy research and design, Rotterdam: O10-Publishers, pp. 10-21.
Boelens, Luuk & Tejo Spit (2011) Contextual shifts twixt cup and lip; in: Boelens, Luuk et al. eds. (2011) Compact City Extended: Outline for future policy research and design, Rotterdam: O10-Publishers, pp. 106-125.
Boelens, Luuk & Henk Ovink (2011) Compact City 2.0; in: Boelens, Luuk et al. eds. (2011) Compact City Extended: Outline for future policy research and design, Rotterdam: O10-Publishers, pp. 320-338.
Boelens, Luuk & Alda Alagic (2011) Transrelationele netwerken; Van een structuralistisch naar een post-structuralistisch perspectief; in: Saris, Jeroen et al. Eds. (2011) Stedelijke Regio’s; Over informele planning op een regionale schaal, Rotterdam: NAI, pp. 66-79.
Boelens, Luuk & Taverne, Ed (2009) Waarom steden als delta’s floreren; in: Lucassen, Leo en Willems, Wim: Waarom Mensen in de Stad willen Wonen 1200-2010, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, pp. 229-258.
Boelens, Luuk & Hans Mommaas (2006) Voorbij het plan – de actorbeandering; in: Aarts e.a. (red.) (2006) Te koop en andere ideeën over de inrichting van Nederland, Wageningen Universiteit en Research Centrum, pp. 153-161.
Boelens, Luuk (2003) La Citta muovere: towards a phenomenology of the space of flows; in: Meurs, Paul et.al. (2003) In transit, Rotterdam, NAI-publishers, pp. 38-47.
Boelens, Luuk (1998) Nature a diffuse vitesse: De verschillende werkelijkheidsbereiken van natuur; in: Feddes, Fred et.al. eds. (1998) Oorden van Onthouding, Rotterdam: NAIpublishers, pp. 118-121.
Boelens, Luuk (1998) De Rijksnota’s over de ruimtelijke ordening; Cartografie en werkelijkheid; in Bosma, Koos et al. eds. (1998) De Regie van de Stad 1, NoordEuropese Stedebouw, Rotterdam: NAI-publishers, pp. 86-93.
Boelens, Luuk (1997) De werkelijkheid is chaotisch maar wel gelaagd; in Nio, Ivan et al. (1997) Groeten uit Zoetermeer, Rotterdam: NAI-publishers.
Boelens, Luuk (1996) Over eieren, mental maps en openbaarheid; de onmogelijke opgave; in Via Via, Einhoven.
Boelens, Luuk (1995) Lagen en nieuwe collectieven: Over het stedelijk ontwerpen na het stadsontwerp; in Bekkering, Henco et.al. (1995) Zover het oog reikt: Ontwerpend sturen aan de stad, Rotterdam: NAI-publishers, pp. 8-16.
Boelens, Luuk (1994) De patroonloosheid van de Randstad: Het probleem van de gespleten werelden; in: Agricola, Esther et al. eds. (1994) Archipolis, over de grenzen van architectuur, Dordrecht, Studium Generale, pp. 121-140.
E. Professional publications (edited)
Boelens, Luuk (2011) Ruimtelijke Ordening bij de buren: een vergelijking van de NL Ontwerp-structuurvisies Infrastructuur en Ruimte met de Vlaamse Startnota Beleidsplan Ruimte Vlaanderen; in: Ruimte, Antwerpen: VRP 11-2011, pp. 12-20.
Boelens, Luuk (2011) Ruimtelijke Ordening in crisistijden; in: Noodnummer – Over de Nieuwe Politiek van Cultuur, SKOR-Cahier over kunst en het publieke domein 22-092011, Rotterdam: NAI-publishers, pp. 44-46.
Boelens, Luuk (2011) De overmoed van een minderheid; in: S&RO (02) 2011, pp. 50-52
Boelens, Luuk (2010) De associatie stad; bottom-up of outside-in; in: S&RO 03-2010, Den Haag: NROV, pp. 16-23.
Boelens, Luuk & Ed Taverne (2010) Eurodelta is Parijs niet; in: Ruimte 6-2010. Antwerpen: VRP, pp. 36-43.
Boelens, Luuk (2008) La Città muovere; in: Swissfuture – Magazin für Zukunftmonitoring 01/08. Themen: Mobilität.
Boelens, Luuk (2008) Towards a phenomenology of the space of flows; in: Janssens, Luc en White, Bart: HC on the move – Expodium Edition on Art and Urbanism. Utrecht: Expodium 2008, pp. 32-41.
Boelens, Luuk & Sanders, Wies (2006) Netwerkgerichte Stedebouw; in: S&RO 4-2006.
Boelens, Luuk & Broesi, Robert (2004) UNICITY - one out of several; gepubliiceerd in het middenkatern van S&RO 5-04.
Boelens, Luuk (2004) De Nota Ruimte, Mobiliteit, Economie en Vitaal Platteland: Van een gespannen naar een zinvolle relatie, in ROM-Magazine 4-04.
Boelens, Luuk & Atzema, Oedzge (2004) Kwakzalverij over het Groene Hart, gepubliceerd in ROM-Magazine 3-04.
Boelens, Luuk (2004) Sturen door netwerken - voor reclustering van beleid, gepubliceerd in S&RO 2-04.
Boelens, Luuk (2002) The Age of Access; special issue S&RO 5-02.
Boelens, Luuk (2001) Het Mobi-type – naar een archeologie van de space of flows; special issue S&RO 1-02 (also published for the Unesco, Paris October 2001).
Boelens, Luuk (2001) Freezoning – over het leven tussen wal en ship; special issue S&RO 4-01.
Boelens, Luuk (2000) Representatie van de werkelijkheid: over het gebruik van ICT in de stedebouw; in: S&RO 6-00.
Boelens, Luuk (2000) Naar een education permanent; supplement in S&RO 5-00.
Boelens, Luuk (1998) Naar een ondernemende Ruimtelijke Ordening; in: Blauwe Kamer 4-98.
Boelens, Luuk (1997) De scenario-machine: Planologen rusteloos op zoek naar houvast; in ARCHIS 6-97.
Boelens, Luuk (1996) Randstad Holland: zijn nieuwe opgave – zijn nieuwe onoverzichtelijkheid; in: Archis 1-96.
Boelens, Luuk (1993) Een voortreffelijk lichaam: De uitdagende schizofrenie van de stad; in: De Architect 3-93.
Boelens, Luuk (1993) Het Groene Hart: voorbij de simulacra; denkraam in Stedebouw en Volkshuisvesting 1-93.
Boelens, Luuk (1991) De planologie en het tijd-ruimte vraagstuk: crisis van de corrigerende tegenbeweging; in: Archis 10-91.
Boelens, Luuk (1987) De nieuwe opleving binnen de stedebouw en planologie: een dood spoor?; in: Stedebouw en Volkshuisvesting 3, 1987.
Boelens, Luuk (1985) De stedebouw en haar kenniskarakter: het dialiectisch verband tussen het het politieke en formele aspect van het stadsontwerp; in: Stedebouw en Volkshuisvesting 7/8, 1985.
F. Miscellaneous
Boelens, Luuk (2012) Planning as historical mistake: interview by Brendan Cornier, Arjen Oosterman and Lin Ying Tzu; in: Volume Archis 2012#2, pp. 28-29.
Boelens, Luuk (2011) Negative & Positiv Inclusion; An Actor-relational view on Business and Citizen Involvement; in: Nycolaas, Renee et al. eds. (2011) Building Cities for the future, Porto Alegre: EDIPURCS, IFHP 2010, pp. 107-120 (also published in portuguese).
Boelens, Luuk et al. (2010) Zelfbouwen in Nederland; 10 jaar experimenteren, Rotterdam: SEV-uitgave (56 pages).
Atzema, Oedzge, Luuk Boelens & Bouke Veldman (2009): Voorbij de lock-in: Een economisch institutionele herpositionering van de Rotterdamse haven, Universiteit van Utrecht/Stratagem Group Den Haag, ISBN 978-90-6266-270-8 (96 pages).
Urban Unlimited (2009) Schakelen in de netwerksamenleving; in: Bouman, Ole (2009) Architectuur als noodzaak, Rotterdam: NAI-publishers, pp. 138-141.
Boelens, Luuk (2008) Review of Mark Purcell, Recapturing Democracy- Neoliberalization and the Struggle for Alternative Urban Futures. New York and London, Journal of Planning Education & Research.
Boelens, Luuk & Rocco, Roberto (2008) Neighbourhood development in transnationality - A comparison between Randstad Holland, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo; paper Aesop-congres. Chicago July 2008.
Boelens, Luuk: Recensie van Hajer, Sijmons, Feddes (2006) Een plan dat werkt – ontwerp en politiek in de regionale planvorming; in SRO 4-2006.
Boelens, Luuk (2005) De planologie is niet altijd een zinvolle bezigheid: interview by Marcel Bayer, in ROM-Magazine 3-05.
Boelens, Luuk (2005) Fluviology – a new aproach of spatial planning; Inaugural lecture, Utrecht January 13th 2005.
Boelens, Luuk & Wies Sanders (1999) Infrastructuur als katalysator; naar een nieuwe benadering van stedebouw en planologie; Utrecht: Holland Railconsult.
