Making Space for Light Industry: An Examination of Light Industry Integration through Mixed-use in Amsterdam's Transformation Areas

The presence of industry within the urban environment is gaining significant traction in a number of cities around the world. It’s growth and importance is fuelled by technology advancements that support both traditional local industry and advanced manufacturing. However, there is a lack of a vision and clear approach regarding industry in...

Microproduction Habitat

In recent years, microproduction has been gaining more and more attention. Microproduction is form of contemporary craftmanship which is focused on the local production and global connectivity. Changing consumer trends and the emergence of new technologies, in particular additive manufacturing, are starting to shape the new production economy...

Bridging the gap between different perspectives on climate change adaptation: Exploring the effects of a stakeholder dialogue on the acceptance between public and private stakeholders to take measures that reduce waterlogging in The Hague

Climate change is affecting the urban environment in the Netherlands, which increases the risks of droughts, floods, waterlogging, and heatwaves. Consequently, the cities we build many years ago are not resilient to climate change in the long run. In response the national government created the Delta Plan on Spatial Adaptation (DPRA) to adapt to...

Automatic detection and characerization of ground occlusions in urban point clouds from mobile laser scanning data

Occlusions accompany serious problems that reduce the applicability of numerous algorithms. The aim of this work is to detect and characterize urban ground gaps based on occluding object. The point clouds for input have been acquired with Mobile Laser Scanning and have been previously segmented into ground, buildings and objects, which have...

Where ambiguity interferes: An exploration of stress, in the city of Amsterdam

This graduation project is the result of researching problems concerning the growing number of people in the inner city of Amsterdam and this project especially explores the topic stress in the city. The proposed approach is created from thorough analysis of the problem and the location. The places in-between the hotspots is the location where...

Quality of life: The role of heritage

Since the 19th century, the effect of the urban environment on the quality of life has been increasingly researched by spatial environment related disciplines. The discipline of urban planning has particularly focused on the negative values and the discipline of heritage on the positive values of the existing urban environment. Over the years...

To adapt or not to adapt: A study into the adaptability of the urban environment

The climate and the urban systems are changing, leading to new challenges and opportunities in the urban environment. Adaptation to these challenges is needed, using the vulnerability assessment areas that are vulnerable can be identified. Vulnerability is the likelihood a system experiences harm and is the combination of both risks and...

Cycling to a Railway Station: Exploring the influence of the urban environment on travel resistance

Urban Objects Classification With an Experimental Acoustic Sensor Network

This paper proposes feature extraction methods for object classification with passive acoustic sensor networks deployed in suburban environments. We analyzed the emitted acoustic signals of three object classes: 1) guns (muzzle blast); 2) vehicles (running piston engine); and 3) pedestrians (several footsteps). Based on the conducted analysis,...

Hyperdomes

The development of new shapes in architecture has deeply influenced the current perception of the built environment. The analysis of the processes behind this evolution is, therefore, of great interest. At least two well known factors, influencing this development, may be pointed out: the great improvement of digital tools and the tendency...

Living in Valsesia: Art in the urban room

De stedelijke plekken van Varallo Sesia worden doorgetrokken over een locatie. Op deze locatie staat een door krimp leegstaand ziekenhuis die op deze manier nieuwe betekenis krijgt. Kunst word als kathalyserende factor gebruikt midden in deze locatie. Hierdoor worden bestaande krachten van Varallo Sesia verbonden maar ontstaat er ook een nieuw...

Measure, understand and improve cities: Visualizing pedestrian flows to improve inner-city quality in Delft using GPS-tracking technology

We all have walked on a street when suddenly someone comes over to you asking for directions. Sometimes, people do not know where they are and they do not know how to reach their destination. They are lost. However, people should not depend on others to find their way. The urban fabric should be legible enough to find one’s way. The problem...

Electric Mobility & the Urban Environment: The Schiphol Case

The introduction of electric mobility is one of the promising options to create a more sustainable mobility system for the future. Electric vehicles offer the promise of major reductions in local CO2, NOX and particulate emissions. In addition, electric vehicles are silent, easy to service and have high ‘well-to-wheel’ energy efficiency. However...

Electric mobility & the urban environment; the Schiphol case

The introduction of electric mobility is one of the promising options to create a more sustainable mobility system for the future. Electric vehicles offer the promise of major reductions in local CO2, NOX and particulate emissions. In addition, electric vehicles are silent, easy to service and have high ‘well-to-wheel’ energy efficiency. However...

The availability of GNSS in urban environments and the effects of receiver acquisition time reduction

A computer simulation model is developed to investigate the urban availability of GNSS and to determine the effects of receiver reacquisition time reduction on this availability. On the basis of the obtained simulation results basic ideas for an GNSS-based urban positioning system are given