International Saxion Student Runner-Up For Zuiderzeeland Award
13 Mar 2009
Esti Pramesti from Indonesia has taken second prize in the Zuiderzeeland Award. Esti is a former student of the International Master Programme taught at Saxion University at Deventer, the Netherlands. The Zuiderzeeland Award is a yearly award in the Netherlands to students for an outstanding achievement in the field of Spatial Planning and Water Management.
Esti won this prestigious award with her thesis ‘Connectivity in Urban Waterfront Spatial Planning in Developing Countries’. Waterfronts are important areas of urban development. A well-known example in The Netherlands is the former harbour area of the city of Rotterdam, where recently main large-scale developments took place. Esti combined several examples in Zanzibar; Toronto en Dalian (China) and applied them to Jakarta (Indonesia). Many cities throughout the world find themselves in a similar position: shifting harbour activities away from the city(centre). Esti’s thesis can serve as a source of inspiration for many other major cities situated at open waterfronts, being ambitious to create something special out of this regarding urban planning. Esti took her bachelor degree in Indonesia. For a follow-up course she came to Saxion to study the international Master of Science programme ‘Urban and Regional Planning.’ Meanwhile Esti is back home again. In her homeland Indonesia she has obtained an interesting job in the field of Urban and Regional Planning.