Cristina Ampatzidou

Urban Update was part of a large research project by the city of Dordrecht to examine the development of strategic nodes around the city. We decided to focus on the historic city center and it’s evolution around the Voorstraat, the main commercial artery, that currently seems to be dicreasingly frequented by locals. Avoiding to propose the transformation of the city into a tourist attraction, we aimed at re-examing the relation of the street to seven dynamic locations in the wider city center area, that could be redeveloped to accomodate updated urban program and the evolution of the street itself in order to become compatible with the contemporary shopping culture. (Urban Study about the Historic Center of Dordrecht, M.A.K.S., 2010)