Reconnect Green and Blue Highways of Nature Flows: A new urban landscape for renewable energy systems and biodiversity in Rotterdam

Renewable energy is beneficial to human life. According to the International Renewable Energy Agency, renewable energy provides not only environmental benefits but also societal advantages, namely lower carbon emissions/ reducing air pollution and employment. However, these systems require a substantial scale of infrastructures which take up...

Working with Extremes: Hard or Soft approach? 2100 Vision for settlements on the southern bank of Rotterdam: The case of Pernis

Port city on the Dutch delta has a number of challenges from several factors such as climate change, decline of port economy and degrade spatial quality by the industrial harbour. In urban and regional planning, the future climate and port change are one of the great challenges because of their uncertainty. The port condition can be changed in...