Integrating Environmental Sustainability in Construction and Real Estate Management Education

It is recommended to integrate specific management competencies in academic education to support the transition towards environmentally sustainable practices, particularly in the construction and real estate sector. This paper explores how architectural management education can integrate environmental sustainability within its current university...

Cities of the Future: Towards Sustainable City Economies

It goes without saying that cities of tomorrow face numerous challenges that will change their appearance drastically. We only now begin to notice a gradual change towards climate-adaptive cities, inner-city renewable energy production, and more healthy urban environments by re-naturing our public realm and buildings as well as accommodating...

Cities of the Future: Control in Times of Acceleration

'The architect who proposes to run with technology knows now that he [sic] will be in fast company, and that, in order to keep up, he may have to emulate the Futurists and discard his whole cultural load, including the professional garments by which he is recognized as an architect. If, on the other hand, he decides not to do this, he may find...

Cities of the Future: On Nature and the Grammar of Design

In his book, 'The sense of style', the cognitive scientist Steven Pinker argues that the categories of grammar reflect the four building blocks of thought: time, space, causality, and matter. Coincidentally, these building blocks are the same ones that dictate the grammar of spatial design. In them being absolute categories, they describe well...

Cities of the Future: A Mobile and Sustainable Society

My research career started with a publication about externalities of mass motorization. Academic researchers are producing an endless stream of paper. Unfortunately, only a few of these publications have practical relevance. Even if they do, their recommendations are frequently butchered, mitigated or ignored in the political arena. Such...

(Re)-positioning Spatial Planning History and Historiography

Since its emergence in the 19th century, modern spatial planning has served as a tool to address public health issues, to organise infrastructure, or to structure cities and landscapes. Throughout this period, planning has been both praised and challenged by the different actors involved. Governments and corporations have historically used...

Cultivated landscapes as new cathedrals

Cornelis van Eesteren plays an instrumental role in the history of urbanism education in the Netherlands. He is regarded as a modernist, as a counterpart to the more traditional M.J. Granpré Molière. His expansion plans for Amsterdam earned him a reputation even before World War II, but as well as focusing on the IJsselmeer polders, his post-war...

The International Course in Hydraulic Engineering

The history of the international courses (IHE) and the role of NUFFIC; overview of participation in the courses, international perspective.