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Hemel, M. (author)Amsterdam faces the challenge of maintaining a domain of 200 km historic quay walls, which is a vital part of the city’s historical landscape. Many quays are currently in poor condition and require renovation or replacement in the near future, significantly impacting the city. The quay walls can be up to 300 years old and their structure...doctoral thesis 2023
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Oorschot, L.M. (author)Many educational buildings still do not have proper ventilation systems, are not sustainable in use, and contribute to the spread of Covid-19 viruses. The biggest challenge for the future is to provide attractive, useable, healthy, and sustainable educational buildings in the Netherlands. But is this challenge realistic? Old buildings are...journal article 2022
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Janssen, C. (author), Basta, Claudia (author)Social sustainability is a multidimensional concept sensitive to the contexts of its application. This study explores how it is interpreted and applied in urban planning practices in which general social sustainability goals are translated into specific urban design interventions. Building upon Sen’s Capability Approach (CA), we analyse the gap...journal article 2022
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Arciniegas Lopez, G.A. (author), Wandl, Alex (author), Mazur, Marcin (author), Mazurek, Damian (author)Advancing circularity in metropolitan areas involves planning, co-designing and implementing spatially explicit interventions with a multitude of stakeholders who are required to work with waste and resource management information. For the stakeholders, understanding information on these flows of resources and materials, and the spatial...book chapter 2022
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Van den Berghe, K.B.J. (author), Louw, E. (author), Pliakis, F.A. (author), Daamen, T.A. (author)Within the majority of port city literature, the evolution of port cities is still explained as an inevitable or ‘logical’ process whereby maritime land-uses gradually migrate from city centres towards waterfront zones with deep water access. Between the 1950s and 2000s, obsolete port areas around the world have surely become waterfront...journal article 2022
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Veeneman, Wijnand (author)This chapter introduces governance as the ruleset that stakeholders work with when making decisions, in this on how to deal with COVID crisis in public transport. This chapter looks at several countries and the way in which their decisions, shared between authorities (health and transport) and operators, have shaped the effects on ridership. In...book chapter 2022
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Psyllidis, A. (author), Duarte, Fábio (author), Teeuwen, R.F.L. (author), Salazar Miranda, Arianna (author), Benson, Tom (author), Bozzon, A. (author)As cities resume life in public space, they face the difficult task of retaining outdoor activity while decreasing exposure to airborne viruses, such as the novel coronavirus. Even though the transmission risk is higher in indoor spaces, recent evidence suggests that physical contact outdoors also contributes to an increased virus exposure....journal article 2021
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ten Caat, P.N. (author), Graamans, L.J.A. (author), Tenpierik, M.J. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author)The municipality of Amsterdam has set stringent carbon emission reduction targets: 55% by 2030 and 95% by 2050 for the entire metropolitan area. One of the key strategies to achieve these goals entails a disconnection of all households from the natural gas supply by 2040 and connecting them to the existing city-wide heat grid. This paper aims to...journal article 2021
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Pintossi, Nadia (author), Ikiz Kaya, Deniz (author), Pereira Roders, A. (author)The conservation of cultural heritage through its adaptive reuse contributes to the transition towards circular cities enhancing urban liveability and tackles challenges such as resource scarcity (UN SDG target 11.4) and waste prevention (UN SDG target 12.5). By regenerating heritage resources and maintaining their values over time, adaptive...conference paper 2021
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Uyttebrouck, Constance (author), Remøy, H.T. (author), Teller, Jacques (author)This paper addresses the governance of the ‘live-work mix’. This concept refers to the renewed intertwining of living and working activities in new housing and urban development in the context of welfare state restructuring, development of the knowledge economy and globalisation. Implementing live-work goals can be difficult because a...journal article 2021
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Pintossi, Nadia (author), Ikiz Kaya, Deniz (author), Pereira Roders, A. (author)Cultural heritage drives and enables sustainable urban development. The adaptive reuse of cultural heritage creates values while prolonging the lifespan of heritage. Similarly, circular economy creates value while extending the useful life of materials and elements through their reuse. Existing studies on adaptive reuse challenges seldom...journal article 2021
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ten Caat, P.N. (author), Tillie, Nico (author), Tenpierik, M.J. (author)Amsterdam aims to bring down its carbon footprint by 55% in 2030 and by 95% in 2050. For the built environment, plotted pathways towards carbon neutrality primarily revolve around the reduction of fossil based energy demand and the transition towards renewable energy production strategies. The consumption of food resources, and its significant...book chapter 2021
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Van den Berghe, K.B.J. (author)In 2016 bracht de Raad voor de Leefomgeving en Infrastructuur (RLI) het rapport ‘Mainports voorbij’ uit (RLI, 2016). In het rapport wordt gesteld dat de twee belangrijkste ‘mainports ’, de haven van Rotterdam en Schiphol Amsterdam, in tegenstelling tot wat ze zelf en vele anderen beweerden, niet de ‘motoren’ zijn van de Nederlandse economie....report 2020
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Kuijper, J.A. (author)Maps represent reality in a consciously filtered and scaled way. We—not only designers but anyone who wants to interfere with the built environment—need maps to get a clutter-free overview of space. Moreover, we can project and infer very specific data of a location on a map creating a model and providing information that could never be...book chapter 2020
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Cavallo, R. (author)The relation between infrastructures and urban transformations is a complex matter. When we look at the Randstad, this part of the Netherlands is characterized by not only its urban development in the last 150 years, but also by the fact that the territory changed; herein geomorphology, waterways, and railroads play an important role. Since the...book chapter 2020
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van Zoest, S.P. (author), Verheul, W.J. (author)The extensive growth of urban tourism is influencing the living environment of urban citizens worldwide, which is among others due to changes in the range of commercial amenities. For example, the existing supply of retail and hospitality services is gradually changing from a focus on inhabitants to the tourist. As a result, the call for...journal article 2020
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At TU Delft, in the interdisciplinary MSc II Design Studio Architecture & Urban Design, students of the master tracks Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment work closely together. The integrative approach of this graduate course setting allows the students to examine urban...book 2020
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- Cavallo, R. (author), Harteveld, Maurice (author), Kuijper, J.A. (author) book chapter 2020
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Ersoy, A. (author), van Bueren, Ellen (author)Finding new approaches to overcome complex urban problems such as climate change has always been of interest to policymakers and academics. The changing dynamics of urban development result in the diversification of new practices during which experimentation is used to inform urban practice. Amongst these approaches, urban living labs (ULLs)...journal article 2020
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Which approaches and scenarios of smart (multimodal) mobility can be tested and applied to the future urban development of Haven-Stad, Amsterdam?<br/>This is the main question the participants of the 2019 Summer School started working on. Included in this book are the results of this intense week of work done by 41 professionals, academics, and...book 2020