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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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- Thompson, R.J. (author) journal article 2009
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Susilo, Y.O. (author), Stead, D. (author)Using National Travel survey data from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (UK), this paper examines how passenger transport emissions are divided across society and how similar this distribution is across these two countries. By looking across a series of data over time, the paper examines the extent to which the socio-economic...conference paper 2009
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Van der Spek, S.C. (author)The Spatial Metro project brings together a transnational group of partners enabling them to co-operate in order to improve city centres for pedestrians - Discovering the City on Foot. The project is receiving European Regional Development Funding through the INTERREG III/B Community Initiative. A group of ten organizations participate in...conference paper 2008
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- Van Nes, A. (author) journal article 2008
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- Read, S.A. (author) journal article 2008
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Van der Hoeven, F.D. (author), Van Schaick, J. (author), Van der Spek, S.C. (author), Smit, M.G.J. (author)Tracking technologies such as GPS, mobile phone tracking, video and RFID monitoring are rapidly becoming part of daily life. Technological progress offers huge possibilities for studying human activity patterns in time and space in new ways. Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) held an international expert meeting in early 2007 to...book 2008
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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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Zagare, V.M.E. (author)En la ciudad de Buenos Aires, el modelo de movilidad urbana y sus mutaciones a lo largo de la historia han dejado su impronta en la expansión territorial, y sobre todo, en el proceso de metropolización. En este artículo se analizan esas mutaciones desde varias ópticas. En un primer apartado se estudian algunas de las características relevantes...journal article 2008
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Kennedy, J. (author)The design of refugee camps presents an extreme form of urban architectural practise. Despite the large numbers of those who are forced to live in such camps, their vulnerability, and the emergency nature of the camps’ construction, relatively few texts to date have been focused upon camp design, and the state-of-the-art type commonly used by...doctoral thesis 2008
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Guney, A. (author)I think it is better to summarize some cognitive issues in relation to this subject; how we learn, how we should organize learning (instructions), knowledge, etc. before treating creativity and rationality. Is it, really, possible to consider creativity without any kind of involvement of the ability of problem solving? Do designers not solve a...conference paper 2008
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Roosmalen, P.K.M. van (author)This chapter, an abridged version of Van Roosmalen's dissertation, describes the development and professionalization of Dutch Indian (Indische) town planning between 1905 and 1950, the simultaneous modernisation of the Dutch East Indies and the emergence of modern day Indonesia. A Dutch version of the chapter was published in 2004 ('Voor kota en...book chapter 2008
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Van der Hoeven, F.D. (author), Hobma, W. (author)This guide to good practice underground space is developed within the framework of the EU-funded INTERREG IIIC project ‘Connected Cities’. It focuses on how a strategic use of underground space can facilitate sustainable modes of transportation and mobility in urban and rural areas. Twelve strategic European projects are evaluated for their good...book 2007
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Faludi, A.K.F. (author)European planning has gone through a number of metamorphoses from the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) to an, albeit tentative, policy to achieve territorial cohesion. The first section of this paper discusses developments since the turn of the century. The second section focuses on the renewed Member State initiative to produce...journal article 2007
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Meijers, E.J. (author), Waterhout, B. (author), Zonneveld, W.A.M. (author)This article discusses and analyses national polycentric development policies aiming at cohesion. Due to its insertion in the 1999 European Spatial Development Perspective ‘polycentricity’ has become an important concept in discussions on Europe’s territorial and economic development. Its content remains however rather unclear. This paper...journal article 2007
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Lopez, M.J.J. (author), Van Nes, A. (author)At this moment, more knowledge is available on the physical characteristics of the built environment and their relationship to criminal opportunity rather than the spatial characteristics of potential targets and the public and private space between them. To improve this situation, a research project was started in the Dutch cities Gouda and...conference paper 2007
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Read, S. (author), Bruyns, G. (author), Van den Hoogen, E. (author), Plomp, M. (author)The Flat City space syntax model (Read, 2005), has been developed to extend the functionality of the space syntax method into the ‘periphery’ (the metropolitan) of the contemporary metropolitan city, and to provide a method for describing and evaluating the form of contemporary urban landscapes. The Flat City model proposes that the environment...conference paper 2007
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Read, S. (author), Bruyns, G. (author)The Flat City space syntax model (Read, 2005) has been developed to extend the functionality of the space syntax method into the periphery of the contemporary metropolitan city, and to provide a method for describing and evaluating the form of contemporary urban landscapes. The Flat City model proposes that the built environment is structured...conference paper 2007
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Van Nes, A. (author), Lopez, M.J.J. (author)Research on urban environment by means of space syntax theory and methods tends to focus on macro scale spatial conditions. However, micro scale conditions should not be neglected. In research on street life and dispersal of crime in urban areas, it became inevitable to pay attention to the interdependence between the macro as well as the micro...conference paper 2007
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Van Nes, A. (author)In urban research, spatial and social concepts of centrality are being distinguished. From a spatial point of view, metrical centrality implies that something is located in the middle of an area. However, metrical and topological centrality are not equivalent. In research where space syntax methods are applied, topological centrality implies...conference paper 2007