Sustainable and Resilient Coastal Cities (SARCC): Interdisciplinary Flood Protection Strategies for Southend-on-Sea (UK)

In a world influenced by climate change and consequently sea-level rise, extreme floods are expected to become more frequent in the future, representing a serious threat for riverine and coastal settlements. Therefore, flood protection is a large component of climate adaptation and should be closely related to other measures of climate...

Drawing the subsurface: an integrative design approach

The sub-surface, with its man-made and natural components, plays an important, if not crucial, role in the urban climate and global energy transition. On the one hand, the sub-surface is associated with a variety of challenges such as subsidence, pollution, damage to infrastructure and shortages of space for new urban systems. On the other hand,...

Poldering between control and laissez faire: The example of harmonizing subsoil management and spatial planning

The purpose of this contribution is to look at different planning contexts into which decisions about subsoil engineering presently need to be integrated. There are many ways of doing as well as theorizing spatial planning; and planning practice is constantly changing. Next to that, soil legislation and management has become more important to...

Visie wordt wakker! Verkenning van de grondvesten van visie in stadsontwikkeling

De hedendaagse verandering in de water- en energiebalans door de klimaatontwikkelingen en het opraken van fossiele brandstoffen vraagt om een andere manier van – en een andere visie op en voor - stadsontwikkeling. Door de duurzaamheids- en klimaatopgave wordt hoe de stad “gemaakt” weer belangrijker omdat er aansluiting gemaakt moet worden met...

The Fine Dutch Tradition

Publication of the exhibition and symposium on water adaptive urban planning and architecture in Bangkok. The Urban Fine Dutch Tradition is a dynamic tradition of making urban designs using the parameters of the natural system – incorperating in an efficient way the hydrological cycle, the soil and subsurface conditions, technology and urban...