Learning from Darwin: What can the man who wrote ‘The Origin of Species’ teach us about a scientific attitude & academic writing skills?

By reading Darwin's introduction in the classic ‘The Origin of Species’, we learn about a scientific attitude and about text structure and style. This is an exercise on academic writing skills prepared for the methodology course of the Urbanism master track at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the TU Delft.

Diffusion of combined heat and power in Dutch greenhouses: A case study

This report presents the case study of the rapid diffusion of combined heat and power (CHP) units in the Dutch greenhouse horticulture in the period 2003-2009. The aim of the case study is to find explanations for this particular transition, and to generalize on the nature of technology diffusion processes. The study is carried out by means of a...