Different genes of the same type of architecture: Waterfront dwellings in Amsterdam and Suzhou

In the 17th century, both Amsterdam and Suzhou were in a period of rapid social and economic development. When faced with similar water environment and social problems such as conflicts between population and limited land resource, the residents of the two places chose completely different ways to build their dwellings. In response to such...

Cross Culture Analysis to Reconstruct the Dimensions of Long-term Orientation and Uncertainty Avoidance

The cross cultural analysis has increasingly become an important research field. One of its merit is to facilitate understanding how the people from different cultural background make decisions differently. The most famous work is done by Hofstede, who introduce a powerful cultural model with 6 cultural dimensions. However, two of these...

The World-Café: A Promising Alternative of Policy Making in the Netherlands?

In recent years, the occasional ineffectiveness in policy analysis to support policy making in major infrastructure projects in the Netherlands has caught our attention in exploring the latent causes and proper tools to facilitate policy making in the Netherlands. Our client, Het Buitenhuis in the Netherlands, has been engaged in facilitating...