Een heel huizenblok met historische gebouwen weggevaagd voor een parkeergarage. In de jaren ’70 is dit gebeurd in het centrum van Groningen, op steenworp afstand van de Vismarkt. Een tijd waarin automobiliteit erg hoog op de agenda stond. Tegenwoordig is dat wel anders. Binnensteden zijn steeds meer …

In deze paper verkennen we de rol van creatieve broedplaatsen als puntbronnen van stedelijke vernieuwing. Broedplaatsen voorzien in toegankelijke werkruimte en leveren daarmee een belangrijke bijdrage aan de culturele infrastructuur van de stad. Maar broedplaatsen zijn meer: hun kleinschalige, lokale …

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During the New Energy Forum, we will have a climate café. Our urban and rural environment are becoming increasingly vulnerable for climate change and there is an urgent need to become more resilient. ClimateCafé is a field education concept involving different fields of science and practice for capacity …

Within European cities, entrepreneurs engage in private and public collaborative initiatives that work towards reducing local solid waste streams (Futurium, 2019). Furniture and interior design products account for nearly 50% of these waste streams, making them a key priority on the EU agenda to prevent …

There are over 1400 age-friendly cities and communities worldwide, and the efforts to create a better quality of life for older people progressively intersect with sustainability goals. The intentions and behaviours concerning sustainability among older are, however, not yet well understood. Therefore, …

While the optimal mean annual temperature for people and nations is said to be between 13 °C and 18 °C, many people live productive lives in regions or countries that commonly exceed this temperature range. One such country is Australia. We carried out an Australia-wide online survey using a structured …

Whereas different aspects of teaching and learning in Higher Education are often discussed within an academic community, teaching the EU seems to receive less attention. Especially in recent years we testimony the decreasing interest to EU studies in universities, including some signs of disappearing …