Place-Based Strategies for Decision makers

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Water as Leverage

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Landscape Propositions

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Nature-based Solutions

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Machine Learning to Reduce Biodiversity Loss Risk

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Managed Retreat

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PUBLICATIONS

  • 2025
    Het IJsselmeerkompas: Hulp bij Interbestuurlijke Afwegingen
    Water Governance 01/2025
  • 2025
    Room for Sea-Level Rise: Conceptual Perspectives to Keep The Netherlands Safe and Livable in the Long Term as Sea Level Rises
    Water 2025
  • 2023
      ‘Water’, in Richard Weller and Tatum Hands, ‘The Landscape Project’
    Applied Research & Design
  • 2022
    Managing the Climate Crisis, Designing and Building for Floods, Heat, Drought, and Wildfire (with Jonathan Barnett)
    Island Press
  • 2021
    ‘Designing for Resilience in Rich Coastal U.S. Cities (and beyond)’, A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation: Uniting Design, Economics, and Policy’
    Island Press
  • 2021
    The Grid and the Greenway, Rethinking New York City’s transportation corridors in the era of climate change
    A+U Magazine
  • 2020
    Building with Nature: Creating, implementing and upscaling Nature-based Solutions (with Erik van Eekelen)
    nai010 Publishers
  • 2020
    The hackable city: exploring collaborative city making in a network society
    The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities
  • 2018
    Economic Resilience Through Community-Driven (Real Estate) Development in Amsterdam-Noord
    The Hackable City
  • 2017
    Designing with Risk: Balancing Global Risk and Project Risks
    Climate Change Adaptation in North America
  • 2017
    The Hackable City: Citymaking in a Platform Society
    The Hackable City
  • 2016
    Designing with Risk: Balancing Global Risk and Project Risks
    Climate Change Adaptation in North America
  • 2015
    The Hackable City: A Research Manifesto and Design Toolkit
    The Hackable City
  • 2015
    Wie bier zegt, zegt ook urine, NRC Handelsblad
    NCR
  • 2015
    We Protect You, Interview Matthijs Bouw / Dutch Water Design, Looks Good Feels Good Is Good
    Looks Good Feels Good is Good
  • 2014
    Gemeenten beginnen wereldwijd aan ‘Smart City’ beleid, Stedebouw & Architectuur
    Stedebouw & Architectuur
  • 2014
    Een icoon voor iedereen, De Architect,
    De Architect
  • 2013
    Interview Matthijs Bouw, De Architect
    De Architect
  • 2012
    Collective Private Urbanism
    CPU: Collective Private Urbanism?
  • 2011
    Project NL, S+RO
    S+RO
  • 2011
    Compacte zorgstad, Design and politics#4
    Compacte zorgstad
  • 2010
    Timing is everything, Stadscahiers
    Stadscahiers
  • 2010
    Acht jaar na Nine + One
    Oase
  • 2010
    De Nieuwe Kaart van Tbilisi. Privatisering en privacy, Open 19
    De Nieuwe Kaart van Tbilisi
  • 2010
    De relatie rijk-regio is toe aan vernieuwing, Nova Terra, Speciale editie Randstad 2040
    NovaTerra
  • 2009
    So viel Architektur wie notig, so wenig Architektur wie moglich, Metropolenfieber
    Metropolenfieber
  • 2009
    De randstad van een miljoen woonwensen, Design and politics#2
    Design and Politics No. 2: Designing Randstad 2040
  • 2009
    Textiele Architektuur, Berend Strik Thixotropy
    Berend Strik Thixotropy
  • 2009
    Maatschappij in vorm, Nieuwe ruimte voor architectuur, Stadscahiers
    Stadscahiers
  • 2008
    Kei column. Het icoon moet maar even wachten, A5
    KEI
  • 2008
    Architektuur en dominee, twee handen op een buik, Deus et Machina
    Deus Et Machina
  • 2007
    De jury bleek allergisch voor cirkels, Mister Motley
    Mister Motley
  • 2007
    Transforming Tbilisi, A10
    Eurovision
  • 2007
    Unsolicited Architecture
    Unsolicited Architecture
  • 2007
    Do it Yourself, DIY-cultuur als inspiratie voor de projecten van One Architecture, Chepos 010
    Chepos
  • 2006
    DIY, Monu
    Monu
  • 2003
    Creativiteit en Stad, Archis
    Archis
  • 2002
    Ja! Ik hou van de Bijlmer, Nee! Ik hield van de Bijlmer, (…), Stichting Dummy
    Catalouge
  • 2002
    Le Medi in Bospolder, S&RO
    S+RO
  • 2002
    Tourette House, Gagarin
    Gagarin
  • 2001
    Corporate Avant-garde, Werk, Bauen und Wohnen
    werk, bauen+wohnen
  • 2001
    De toekomst van de architectuur, Op het breukvlak van twee millennia. Thoughts on Architecture
    De Toekomst Van De Architectuur
  • 1998
    Disneyland with Euthanasia, Crimson
    Crimson
  • 1998
    What used to be called a city, Siksi
    Siksi
  • 1997
    Losse stedebouw. Loose urbanism, Archis
    Archis
  • 1996
    Pornography from suburbia, Wiederhall
    Wiederhall
  • 1994
    Big Soft Orange
    Crimson

Books

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Building with Nature: Creating, Implementing and Upscaling Nature-Based Solutions

2021
Edited by Matthijs Bouw, Erik van Eekelen
Drawing upon lessons learned from a decade of Building with Nature (BwN) across Europe and SouthEast Asia, EcoShape selected ONE to co-develop a research publication, Building with Nature: Creating, implementing, and upscaling Nature-based Solutions (NAi/010 Uitgeverij). As a research compendium and call to action, this publication aims to capture and process knowledge of the different Building with Nature programs to communicate with a diverse audience, including decision-makers, professionals, scientists, and other interested groups.
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DEVENTER

2013
Matthew Stadler
Deventer (NAi/010 Uitgeverij) narrates the messy, compromised, human reality of architecture and planning through the checkered story of Matthijs Bouw’s attempt to make a better future for an obsolete building that had been slated for demolition. Written by the American novelist, Matthew Stadler, it tells the true story of a cross-disciplinary team of planners, financiers, artists, and politicians —led by an architect— trying to rescue a beautiful but obsolete Catholic hospital in Deventer (St. Jozef Health Center), rather than sacrificing it to the calculations of the real estate market.
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Four Corridors: Design Initiative for RPA’s Fourth Regional Plan

2019
Hatje Cantz
ONE and Only If co-developed a design proposal Triboro Corridor in 2017 as part of Four Corridors, a component of Regional Plan Association (RPA)’s Fourth Regional Plan (2017) and a special initiative launched by RPA to explore the future of four specific corridors in the New York metropolitan region. The resulting publication, Four Corridors: Design Initiative for RPA’s Fourth Regional Plan (Hatje Cantz), examines the evolving role of design in the first three plans and presents the Fourth Regional Plan’s design initiatives in depth.
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Managing the Climate Crisis

2022
Jonathan Barnett and Matthijs Bouw
In Managing the Climate Crisis, design and planning experts Jonathan Barnett and Matthijs Bouw take a practical approach to addressing the inevitable and growing threats from the climate crisis using constructed and nature-based design and engineering and ordinary government programs. They discuss adaptation and preventive measures and illustrate their implementation for seven climate-related threats: flooding along coastlines, river flooding, flash floods from extreme rain events, drought, wildfire, long periods of high heat, and food shortages.
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The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities

2020
Katharine S. Willis and Alessandro Aurigi
ONE’s Matthijs Bouw co-contributed with Marijn de Waal and Michiel de Lange for a chapter on Hackable City in the new publication: The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities (Routledge). Edited by Alessandro Aurigi and Katharine S. Willis, this book provides a critical and cross-disciplinary overview of the emerging topic of smart cities and explores it from a range of theoretical and empirical viewpoints.
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Design with Nature Now

2019
Named a best book of 2019 by the American Society of Landscape Architect’s The Dirt, Design with Nature Now (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy) celebrates the 50th anniversary of Ian McHarg’s seminal book Design with Nature (1969), which set forth a new vision for regional planning using natural systems. A team of landscape architects and planners from the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design have showcased some of the most advanced ecological design projects in the world today, including ONE’s The Big U.
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