TReC -The Responsive City Network

Rotterdam, Netherlands, ZUID HOLLAND Netherlands

Design

TReC -The Responsive City is an international network for researching and designing cities. We see cities as self-organizing systems. Cities are always subject to processes where simple realities end up in complex urban situations regardless of specific political and socio-economic conditions. Shrinking cities of Eastern Germany, growing informal settlements as in Accra or Buenos Aires, mushrooming gated communities at the peripheries of Istanbul are all subjects of systems theory. In the last five years, we have been developing a special eye for analyzing such open and complex urban systems. TReC not only analyzes but also proposes strategies and tactics to deal with such urban processes.