Martin Dubbeling

Biography

Martin Dubbeling (1961) is a senior consultant, urban planner and urban designer at SAB in Arnhem, The Netherlands. SAB is a multi-disciplinary office active in the fields of spatial planning, urban planning, landscape architecture and the environment in Arnhem, Amsterdam and Eindhoven in The Netherlands. Martin Dubbeling is Chair of the BNSP+NVTL Working Group on Sustainable Urban Design, Vice President of the Netherlands Professional Organisation of Urban Planning and Design (BNSP) and Vice President Urban Planning Advisory Teams (UPATs) of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP). For ISOCARP Martin Dubbeling is responsible for UPAT workshops in Singapore (2010), Wuhan (2012) en two in Perm (2012).

Martin Dubbeling is one of the authors of the book Sustainable Urban Design, Perspectives and Examples (2005), for which he was awarded with the Gerd Albers Award on the 42nd ISOCARP Congress in Istanbul in 2006. The second and revised edition of this book is published in September 2010. Martin Dubbeling was Rapporteur and member of the Congress Team on the 45th ISOCARP congress ‘Low Carbon Cities’ in Porto in 2009, rapporteur of the Philips Livable Cities UPAT in Singapore in 2010 and Young Planning Professionals workshop coordinator prior to the 46th ISOCARP congress ‘Sustainable City — Developing World’ in Nairobi in 2010. He has written articles about the relation between energy transition and spatial and urban planning in the ISOCARP Reviews 05 and 07.

Martin Dubbeling studied Urban Planning and Design at the Delft University of Technology (1981–1988). He has lectured and teached at several universities and he has a strong professional record in the consultancy, design and process of the regeneration of historic town and village centres, sustainable urban planning and design and the redevelopment of urban networks and retail districts. He has made several master plans for sustainable residential areas and sustainable residential urban renewal in The Netherlands. Many of those projects have been realised or are under construction.

In his projects, publications and presentations, Martin Dubbeling states that sustainable urban design is urban design that focuses on people and the environment; one that can be used for a very long time and that continues to meet requirements that occur throughout time. The liveable and sustainable regions and cities of tomorrow are cities that are compact and attractive, inclusive and connected, liveable and healthy, vital and competitive. Delivering sustainable regions and cities is not just a question of technology. It also requires taking a fresh look at sustainable regional development, city values and communication with its inhabitants and its businesses.