Wie geven er invulling aan de stad van morgen? Het antwoord op die vraag was de laatste jaren veelal de creatieve klasse. Lange tijd was zij het troetelkindje van alle bestuurders - van Rotterdam tot Bourtange - en moest alles in het werk gesteld worden om haar binnen te halen. In de woorden van Reijndorp: …

New attitudes is about the new role of the designer with respect to (re) programming and (re) development. Architecture, architects must now adopt ‘a sober-minded, enterprising, inventive and self-critical attitude in redefining [their positions] within the design field and within a social and physical …

Throughout Europe cities face the same kind of problems. Therefore, a common idea occurred that there should be some sort of cooperation between these cities to solve these problems together. This common idea eventually led to the URBACT programme, which is a programme that consists of several networks …