Uploaded on 2017-12-05 by Pierre Saraber

Most cities in the world have so called fringes: disused industrial zones or rail road yards. In Holland you can find these fringes sometimes along the banks of the rivers. Mostly there are no obvious uses as residential or industrial zone because of the vicinity of a railroad (noise), a river (flood risk) or industry (pollution, noise) But if you look at these terrains more closely there are often a lot of users. Local young people meet each other here; people walk their dogs, joggers and mountain bikers practice their sports. And nature lovers seed flowers there to help the bees survive. In summary you could call it a mixed recreational area. For the combination of these uses I would suggest to identify all present users. Build a free app in which they can note how they spent their time there, with whom, at what time and at what exact locations (using GPS). The city designers can use these data for making a plan in which these functions are combined. Making jogging paths, zones for dogs, meeting points, etc. Let this be an interactive process and ask the users periodically what they think during and after the design.