Multiscale Contextual Poverty in the Netherlands: Within and Between‑Municipality Inequality

Contextual poverty refers to high proportions of people with a low income in a certain (residential) space, and it can affect individual socioeconomic outcomes as well as decisions to move into or out of the neighbourhood. Contextual poverty is a multiscale phenomenon: Poverty levels at the regional scale reflect regional economic development,...

The theory of the natural urban transformation process: The relationship between street network configuration, density and degree of function mixture of built environments (paper)

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...

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Redefining the border between public and private in ambiguous modernist areas: The case of Amsterdam Nieuw West

Modernist areas represent the ambivalent idea to live in a green city, which can provide light and air of open landscapes, and on the same time host facilities of an urban environment. Modernist areas as the Western Garden Cities in Amsterdam are also ambiguous spaces, their form shaped mainly by flowing open space. The ambiguity of space is...

Betrokkenheid: Onderzoek naar situationele en instrumentele kwaliteiten in de gebouwde omgeving: Modernistische en Postmodernistische vormgeving in een existentialistisch perspectief

Modernistische architectuur heeft, door haar nadruk op functionaliteit en wetenschap, geen verweer tegen depersonalisatie; Postmodernistische architectuur heeft door haar nadruk op de beleving en op het spel en de illusie, geen verweer tegen de postmodernistische leegte. Zo kunnen beide benaderingen aanleiding geven tot problemen op het vlak van...

WAYS to study and research urban, architectural and technical design

This methodological book describes eight forms of study and research as they relate to design: 1) naming and describing; 2) design research and typology; 3) evaluating; 4) modelling; 5) programming and optimising; 6) technical study; 7) design study; 8) study by design. It includes the views, design related research projects and research methods...