From Dichotomies to Dialogues: Connecting Discourses for a Sustainable Urbanism

Urbanism is a way of thinking and acting needed for sustainable development; urbanists are becoming inter- and transdisciplinary, bringing science, technology, and design into their field. As the world is in a cascading of crises related to, e.g., health, energy, food, and water, as well as issues of, e.g., traffic, housing, and services,...

Circular Communities: The circular value flower as a design method for collectively closing resource flows

In Circular Communities, pioneering, collectively supported initiatives that are aimed at closing resource cycles at neighbourhood level take a central position. They are all examples of initiatives that contribute to the transition to a circular economy. For the analysis of these different circular initiatives, the researchers – urban designer...

Measuring Safety Culture Using an Integrative Approach: The Development of a Comprehensive Conceptual Framework and an Applied Safety Culture Assessment Instrument

An exponential amount of academic research has been dedicated to the safety culture concept, but still, no consensus has been reached on its definition and content. In general, safety culture research lacks an interdisciplinary approach. Furthermore, although the concept of safety culture is characterised by complexity and multifacetedness, the...

Heritage management and urban development in Iran, case study of Shiraz

Purpose: Large-scale interventions are still the dominant approach in dealing with historic cities in Iran; however, during the last decade there has been a shift towards integrated and decentralised policies and a series of locally based projects were initiated across the country. Political and ideological forces, population growth as well...

Numerical Modeling of the Macroscopic Behavior of a Crowd of People under Emergency Conditions Triggered by an Incidental Release of a Heavy Gas: an Integrated Approach

In the present study, we focus on modeling and simulations of macroscopic behavior of a crowd of people under emergency conditions. We present a newly developed integrated numerical approach, which combines the time-dependent RANS method in predicting the temporal and spatial evolution of a heavy gas turbulent dispersion with the macroscopic...

Social-Ecological-Technical systems in urban planning for a circular economy: an opportunity for horizontal integration

The Circular Economy (CE) is receiving interest worldwide as a way to overcome the currently dominating linear and wasteful production and consumption models of our society. Currently the implementation of CE thinking into practice is still in an early stage. As the main hubs of consumption and to a more limited extent also, production,...

An integrated approach to flood risk management and spatial quality for a Netherlands’ river polder area

Ships Maneuvering Simulations in a Seaway: How close are we to reality?

This paper provides overview of the currently available theoretical methods and their capabilities in relation to simulations of the maneuvering behavior of displacement type of ships in a seaway. It has been considered that the ships are engaged in typical type of maneuvers such are for example Zig-Zag and Turning maneuvers according to IMO...

Managing urban development processes in the Netherlands and implication for Chinese context

Urban development has become increasingly complex in recent times. This is not only because of the multiplicity of actors involved and the complexity of social developments, but it is also because the scope of the implications of urban area development has significantly enlarged: they often significantly transgress the area concerned and even...

Design of an integrated fermentation crystallization process for the production of L-phenylalanine