A video of the Dutch ministrie of internal affairs promoting self building of your own house. Main reason for them is the cancellation off many projects in Holland because of the absence of project developers and investers. Projects only get built when at least 70% is sold. Because of the crisis this is very hard, though private persons and families can get a loan from the banks to build there own house. But there are almost no possibilities for this in the most urban part of Holland the Randstad (Amsterdam-Utrecht-The Hague-Rotterdam)
Slow urbanism promotes this creating of city structures based on the smallest unit. The city will later transform itself into a more urban setting by natural processes. There is no need to always built 'instant city' ensembles by project developers. City life needs time to grow.
Check the movie, it is in Dutch.
And here a video of a project in Leiden, called Nieuw Leyden, designed by MVRDV. It is a transformation of an old factorysite by using private housebuilders building houses in a compact setting. One could built his own house here, only the garage structure was allready built.
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