Climate change and continuous urbanization contribute to an increased urban vulnerability towards flooding. Only relying on traditional flood control measures is recognized as inadequate, since the damage can be catastrophic if flood controls fail. The idea of a flood-resilient city – one which can withstand …

This research paper explores the role of women talk (schmoozing) and the gender gap in urban sociology. In the discussions concerning the changing face of the Dutch inner cities, there is an increasing tendency for attention to be paid to ethnicity, without a concomitant analysis of the impact of gender …

De Mars in Zutphen is een meer dan 125 jaar oud bedrijventerrein en is 200 hectare groot. Naast de bedrijvigheid van industrie, groothandel en dienstverlening, wordt een nieuwe woonwijk gepland: Noorderhaven. In 2011 is gestart met de bouw van de eerste woningen. Dit rapport borduurt voort op de huidige …

In de jaren ’60 van de vorige eeuw is een deel van de Drachtstervaart gedempt, waardoor boten niet langer het centrum van Drachten konden bereiken. Tijdens het dempen van de vaart is een kokerriool geplaatst die als berging dient voor de riool overstorten. Er zijn plannen ontstaan om de vaart weer open …

After decades of being deemed the idealistic hobby of a niche group of fanatics, Green has finally entered the mainstream of the architectural service industry. However, most architects and urban planners are not yet adequately equipped to translate the challenges of climate change and resource and energy …

This research has been done on behalf of Eosta, a leading international distributor of fresh organic fruits and vegetables. Eosta is concerned with the situation of the earth's soils and wants to start an awareness campaign about soil. The central question of the research is: how can Eosta communicate …

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 …

Exposure data available to developers of earthquake loss models are often very crudely aggregated spatially, and in such cases very considerable effort can be required to refine the geographical resolution of the building stock inventory. The influence of the geographical resolution of the exposure data …