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Het stroomgebied Baakse Beek-Veengoot is een landschappelijk zeer afwisselend en aantrekkelijk gebied. Het water heeft in de loop van de geschiedenis het landschap in belangrijke mate gevormd. Het waterbeheer van de afgelopen decennia heeft echter tot een onnatuurlijke inrichting van de watergangen geleid, waardoor er geen sprake meer is van een duurzaam watersysteem. In deze integrale visie beschrijft Waterschap Rijn en IJssel hoe het stroomgebied Baakse Beek- Veengoot er op lange termijn uit kan gaan zien. Deze visie geeft de ontwikkelingsrichting aan waaraan het waterschap samen met andere partijen wil werken. De ingevoegde visiekaart illustreert wat er in het stroomgebied moet gebeuren. Als hoofdopgave voor de Baakse Beek-Veengoot is het volgende motto gekozen: herstel de sponswerking!

Workshop 1. Session 1.2: Segregation and strategies of gating and withdrawal. Abstract: Over the years, implicitly or explicitly the relationship between spatial form and the social world has been recurrently discussed in urban studies. Recently, this topic again gained relevance through the emerging critical debate on the social consequences of ‘gated communities’. In this debate, more often than not, gated communities receive a very bad press. With reference to cities like Los Angeles, Sao Paolo, Johannesburg and Istanbul it is argued that walls and gates create exclusionary spaces that physically separate the haves from the have-nots. The lucky ones can retreat in their own spatial worlds, leaving less fortunate urban citizens behind. Spatial form thus functions to maintain and enhance social-economic inequality. On top of this, it is argued that the resulting physical separation of social groups undermines the public sphere. After all, groups that don’t meet won’t know and understand each other. So, the conditions for cross-social community, solidarity and maybe even democracy are under attack. We ascertain that this critical interpretation of ‘splintering urbanism’ presupposes that a specific spatial form (gated enclaves) leads to specific social consequences (e.g. lack of community and solidarity) that especially hurt the disadvantaged. On theoretical grounds, we question such an elitist and spatial deterministic approach. And we prompt researchers to replace ideological reasoning on gating by precise empirical analysis of social life within gated urban fields. This paper presents a first discussion of such research conducted in Bangkok. In this Asian metropolis, not only the rich, but also the poor live behind gates. At the same time, the relational networks of inhabitants of various neighbourhoods within this splintered urban field turn out to leave space for cross-cultural encounters. However, we show that this doesn’t necessitate understanding and solidari