With urban restructuring one traditionally thinks of and works from areas that are to be restructured. Often, infrastructure is an essential, but costly and difficult to achieve part of this restructuring. This is an approach, that takes just that development of infrastructure as a point of departure, which produces innovative solutions to urban use of space, with a good chance of attaining a public-private partnership. In this paper, such an approach is illustrated by the North-South axis in the Dutch city of Deventer. This example makes clear that the approach, which takes away the barriers between traffic and urban development, and public and private tasks, can offer high quality solutions to structural problems that cities deal with. It may well be that the approach is a necessary condition to attain the so desired intensification of urban use of space. (A)
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