Spatial planning and urban resilience in the context of flood risk: A comparative study of Kaohsiung, Tainan and Rotterdam

Spatial planning is increasingly being considered as an important mechanism in coping with flood risk due to climate change. One of the reasons for this is that engineering approaches are increasingly expensive and cannot provide complete certainty of protection against climate-related floods. The thesis examines whether and how spatial planning...

Strategy as Force: Towards Effective Strategies for Urban Development Projects: The Case of Rotterdam CityPorts

In European urban development practices, there is a recurring need for new perspectives that provide insight into the complexity involved in the realization of projects. This need exists particularly around prestigious projects, where the tension between planning ambitions on the one hand, and the reality of conflicting interests and tight...

De transformatie van het Hollandse bouwblok in relatie tot het publieke domein: Model, regel en ideaal, The transformation of the Dutch urban block: model, rule and ideal

The research focuses on the transformation of the urban block in relation to the public realm of the two great Dutch cities Amsterdam and Rotterdam throughout the last 400 years. In order to analyse the process of transformation, Dutch urban blocks are selected that can be considered paradigmatic for different historical periods . The time span...

Computation of gravity currents in estuaries

A great deal of literature has been devoted to gravity currents in estuaries. However, more or less detailed theoretical models of these phenomena are scarce. This is partly due to the fact that the equations have been difficult to solve if they describe the situation with some generality. This difficulty is surmounted by the use of digital...