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Ye, Y.E. (author), Van Nes, A. (author)Many new towns are established in China with the intention of providing desirable places to live. Nevertheless, these new towns often lack the flourishing street life, small businesses, and variety of social activities that old towns have to offer. This paper explores the spatial reasons why old towns tend to perform socio-economically better...journal article 2014
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Tan, R.E. (author)An understanding of cities as open systems whose agents act on them simultaneously from below and above, influencing urban processes by their interaction with them and with each other, is replacing the simplistic debate on urban participation which asks whether cities should be organized bottom-up or top-down. This conceptualization of cities as...doctoral thesis 2014
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- Van Nes, A. (author), Ye, Y. (author) conference paper 2014
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Van Nes, A. (author), Ye, Y. (author)During the last decade, advances in software, spatial analyses methods, and improved capacity of computers have made it possible to quantitatively analyse morphological features of whole cities. This emerging trend of combining geographic information system (GIS) with traditional urban morphology brings some new insights into the evolving logic...conference paper 2014
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- Calabrese, L.M. (author) journal article 2013
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Van der Hoeven, F.D. (author)In the 20th century, the Dutch city of Rotterdam was radically transformed from a historic town into a modern city, becoming the selfacclaimed 'city of architecture', home to international architectural design offices, publishers and institutions. Although it is already 60 years after the destruction of the Rotterdam inner city, the city still...journal article 2013
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Gosseye, J. (author)This paper puts forth the hypothesis that notions such as ‘collectivity’, ‘play’ and ‘community’ – buzz words of the post-war discourse on architecture and urbanism – were often important elements in the design and conceptualization of post-war shopping centres in Western Europe. To investigate this hypothesis, the paper focuses on three...journal article 2013
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Beirao, J.N. (author), Duarte, J.P. (author), Stouffs, R.M.F. (author)The aim of the City Induction project is to develop an urban design tool consisting of 3 parts: an urban programme formulation module, a generation module and an evaluation module. The generation module relies on a very generic Urban Grammar composed of several generic grammars called Urban Induction Patterns (UIPs) corresponding to typical...journal article 2011
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Kleerekoper, L. (author), Van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author), Van Dorst, M.J. (author), Hordijk, G.J. (author)Urban Heat Islands in cities in the Netherlands are likely to increase due to a predicted climate change and the continuously increasing expansion and densification of cities, In contrast to rural areas cities are warmer because their paved surfaces retain heat, buildings block cooling winds and the lack of vegetation and water reduces...conference paper 2011
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Van Schaick, J. (author)It is important to know about peoples’ temporospatial activity patterns when making urban and regional designs and plans. Despite wide acknowledgment of this idea, knowledge about people’s activity patterns does not get full attention in day-to-day practice of urban and regional design and planning. This book makes the case that, with activity...doctoral thesis 2011
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Hooimeijer, F.L. (author)Climate change brings larger and more frequent rainstorms and Dutch cities are confronted with water nuisance. The urban water systems are unable to deal with this change in the hydrological cycle in spite of the fact that the Dutch are dealing with this condition for centuries. The question is: What is the tradition of building in wet and soft...doctoral thesis 2011
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Gil, J.A. (author), Almeida, J. (author), Duarte, J.P. (author)We have been witnessing an increased interest in a more holistic approach to urban design practice and education. In this paper we present a spatial data model for urban design that proposes the combination of urban environment feature classes with design process feature classes. This data model is implemented in a spatial database that becomes...conference paper 2011
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Nijhuis, S. (author), Van Lammeren, R. (author), Van der Hoeven, F. (author)Exploring the Visual Landscape is about the combination of landscape research and planning, visual perception and Geographic Information Science. It showcases possible ways of getting a grip on themes like: landscape openness, cluttering of the rural landscape, high-rise buildings in relation to cityscape, historic landscapes and motorway...book 2011
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Schuetze, T. (author)The existing water management in Dutch polders is based on independent water systems for each polder. These are featuring artificial stabilized ground and surface water levels. As a result of the local climate the water levels in the polders are not continuously at a constant level. To maintain a stable water table in the polders, the surplus of...journal article 2011
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- Kleerekoper, L. (author) conference paper 2011
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Van der Hoeven, F.D. (author), Brand, N. (author), Van der Burg, L. (author), Çal??kan, O. (author), Tan, E.R. (author), Wang, C.Y. (author), Zhou, J. (author)To ensure the quality of the Ph.D. research the Department introduced a special procedure for periodic evaluation: after a period of nine months the potential Ph.D. candidates are asked to present their research design, theoretical framework and methodological approach to the members of the Department and to an external review, drawn up by the...book 2009
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De Bois, P. (author)A group of 18 (inter)national master students have worked for 8 weeks on the subject of the MSc2 Urban Plan & Analysis Zoetermeer. The chair of Urban Design made this choice for the city of Zoetermeer because next to Almere this city became one of the most important New Towns of the Netherlands and also in Europe.book 2009
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Van der Hoeven, F.D. (author), Van der Spek, S.C. (author), Smit, M.G.J. (author)Pedestrian mobility and the regeneration of the European city centre. Cities can be chaotic and confusing places at the best of times – even for local people! Spatial Metro, a project largely funded by the EU, aims to make city visits more enjoyable for pedestrians by making cities easier to navigate, easier to walk around and easier to...book 2008
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- Van Bilsen, A. (author) doctoral thesis 2008
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Claessens, F. (author)The city as an architectural construction: The architectural discours on the city At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century a paradigm shift took place within German architectural thinking that can be identified as a turn to the city. Whereas throughout the 19th century architectural knowledge was primarily directed to questions of style of...doctoral thesis 2005