Elastic Slicing in Programmable Networks

The concept of network slicing enables operators to provision multiple virtual networks on top of a single (shared) physical infrastructure. Adding elasticity to slicing, i.e., the ability to on-demand provision/release dedicated network resources, improves resource utilization. However, efficiently allocating and scaling slice resources,...

ShoreScape: Nature-Based Design for Urban Coastal Zones

Since the 1990’s the Netherlands has changed its coastal defence system from hard to sediment-based measures, compensating coastal erosion by adding sediment to its sandy shores. In order to keep pace with sea level rise, more nourishments will be needed in the future, including the ‘Building with Nature’ (BwN) technique: large scale...

Digital methods for mapping landscape space

Context dependence of project management competences

Higher Education is incorporating project management in their curricula, but literature on project management education, higher education practice and practitioner needs show little agreement (Nijhuis, 2017a). Guidance for curriculum design in Project Management is available (Task force on PM curricula, 2015), but also stresses that the...

RTD in landscape architecture: a first State of the Art

The discussion regarding the relation of design and research in landscape architecture started somewhat later than in other design disciplines. But the past decade has shown a sharp rise of publications on ‘research through/by design(ing)’ (RTD). The literature has now reached a level of richness that enables a review of the State of the Art and...

GIS-applications in landscape design and research

There is evidence that the potential of GIS is still underutilized in landscape design and research due to a lack of awareness and prejudice. This paper explores some concepts of GIS-based analysis which link to the very heart of landscape design in a natural and intuitive way. Hence the possibility to break down barriers of using GIS in...

Applications of GIS in landscape design research

Nature in the metropolis: Mapping biodiversity using metropolitan landscape characterization tools

Cities can be planned and designed to reduce their effect on biodiversity loss and may even be able to sustain biodiversity levels in some instances, due to ‘beta-diversity’. The heterogeneity of metropolitan regions can be expected to have a strong impact on beta-diversity. Tools such as landscape characterization can assist in the...

Generalisation of a 1:10k map from municipal data

This paper reports about the feasibility study carried out by the Dutch Kadaster to automatically generalise the largest scale topographical data set maintained by the Kadaster (i.e. TOP10NL) from the 1:1k topographical object oriented data set, which is currently being collected and structured by organisations that need to maintain public space...

Generalisation of 1:50k roads centrelines from 1:10k road polygons in an automated workflow

This paper reports about on going developments in the map production process of the Dutch Kadaster (who also hold the mapping agency). In March 2013, the Dutch Kadaster will produce the 1:50k map series fully automatically from 1:10k data for the first time. From that moment on, this new product will replace the existing 1:50k map. It is the...

Metropolitan landscape characterization: A typo-morphological approach

Dispersed urban regions are characterized by blurred boundaries between urban and rural areas resulting in complex new configurations of urban tissue and landscape space. These new hybrid landscapes challenge existing tools for landscape characterization, which are based on a traditional separation of urban and non-urban realms. This paper...

Research and Design in Landscape Architecture

This paper aims to introduce the particular methodology of the author's and their colleagues at TU Delft Chair of Landscape Architecture. This approach is characterised by theories, methods and techniques converging towards design and research and research by design. The relation and interaction between these research domains is illustrated with...

3D-models in landscape architecture

Landscape architecture consists of a basic attitude that involves four principles of study and practice. These are: anamnesis (palimpsest), process, three-dimensional space and scale-continuum (relational context). The core of landscape architecture as a design discipline is the construction and articulation of three-dimensional outdoor space....

Feasibility study on an automated generalisation production in line for multiscale topographic products

Automated generalisation of land cover data in a planar topographic map

Towards agile projectmanagement and sopcial innovation in the construction industry

Is project management developing towards a more human- or culture-oriented discipline? Two recent studies of the Dutch construction industry dealt with this issue, and the results of these studies have led to the conclusion that project management has developed in the opposite direction over the past few years, towards a 'harder', more...