{"id":76597,"date":"2016-11-17T03:45:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T02:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e52.nl\/?p=76597"},"modified":"2016-11-17T03:45:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T02:45:55","slug":"john-jorritsma-lets-make-europe-green-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/john-jorritsma-lets-make-europe-green-again\/","title":{"rendered":"John Jorritsma: &#8220;Let&#8217;s Make Europe Green Again&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Referring directly to Donald Trump&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;Let&#8217;s Make America Great Again&#8221;, the Eindhoven mayor John Jorritsma tonight in London made a call for climate attention. &#8220;Let&#8217;s Make Europe Green Again&#8221;, were his final words in his speech at the award ceremony for European City of the Year. Eindhoven won a nomination from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academyofurbanism.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Academy of Urbanism<\/a>, together with Montpellier\u00a0and the final winner Copenhagen.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eindhoven has always had many features of a true Garden City. Still we strongly invest and intense the natural wedges and cross-overs through the city as the Dommelvallei and the Groene Corridor. We also bring back the Gender to the city centre. In this way we\u2019re not only able the create a healthy and comfortable city, but are also able to anticipate on the effects of climate change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-16-at-19.12.27.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76611\" src=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-16-at-19.12.27.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-11-16 at 19.12.27\" width=\"956\" height=\"570\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Eindhoven is more than a Garden City, Jorritsma said. &#8220;Besides Garden City we are a \u00a0Smart Creative City, a Resilient City, an Inclusive City and an Adaptive City, ready for the future. A future we believe in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jorritsma also spoke about the great challenges lying ahead of us. &#8220;We connect our technology with worldwide challenges. We can\u2019t look into the future, but we know that these challenges dictate the future. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have a Health campus, to cure us.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have an automotive campus, to move us. And w<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e have the University Campus researching Photonics, to energize us.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-16-at-19.11.22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-76612\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.ioplus.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-16-at-19.11.22-300x212.png\" alt=\"Urbanism Awards\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a>In this way, companies and citizens are made <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">future proof, Jorritsma said. &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bringing us back to the Garden City: we are ready for climate change.\u00a0<\/span>With our spatial planning and economical drivers we reduce \u201cheat stress\u201d and take care of absorbing water, by depaving, and bringing back as blue\/green areas, using the Garden City concept.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In April Eindhoven welcomed Angela Merkel, next week it will be\u00a0welcoming King Filip of Belgium. &#8220;They\u2019ve both chosen us to see what innovation looks like.&#8221; If Eindhoven would have won the award, Jorritsma would have\u00a0promised\u00a0&#8220;to invite the president-elect of the United States in our city. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We would say to him: <em>Let\u2019s Make Europe Green Again<\/em>.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Referring directly to Donald Trump&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;Let&#8217;s Make America Great Again&#8221;, the Eindhoven mayor John Jorritsma tonight in London made a call for climate attention. &#8220;Let&#8217;s Make Europe Green Again&#8221;, were his final words in his speech at the award ceremony for European City of the Year. 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