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van Eeden, Paul (author)
One of the many challenges facing the Netherlands is the government’s<br/>goal of building one million homes by 2030, as a solution to the housing<br/>deficiency that’s plaguing the Netherlands. The intended method is to densify current urban areas rather than continuously expand outward into green areas to keep the natural environment open for...
master thesis 2022
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Licht Pradillo, Iris (author)
This thesis investigates the life of Charlotte Perriand. Specifically her ideas on design and architecture. At the beginning of her career being inspired by the industry and machines and later inspired by natural forms and materials.<br/>The primary source is the autobiography of Perriand, where she has explained first-hand her relationships...
student report 2022
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Avé, Tondan (author)
This thesis explored the contrast between the overarching category of entrepreneurship (from here on, “mainstream entrepreneurship” or ME) and the subset of technology entrepreneurship (TE) through a comparison of The Netherlands (low TE/high ME) and Japan (high TE/low ME), addressing the problem that currently no dedicated frameworks for TE...
master thesis 2022
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Vink, Femke (author)
In-between spaces are the gradual transition spaces between two opposites; between inside and outside or public and private. This research will investigate the motives and implementation of the concept within Dutch and Japanese architecture, as it is widely used within architecture of these countries. Because the in-between...
student report 2021
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Mujumdar, Gayatri (author)
The project aims at contributing to integrated emergency planning in hazardscapes. The research takes the case of tsunami scape of Otsuchi, a town in the Iwate prefecture of Japan. Learning from the 3/11 disaster about the dependency of decisions that affect the nature of recovery has led to the formation of a methodology and guiding principles...
master thesis 2019
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Panna, Praveen (author)
The current energy infrastructure, energy policy, and the business environment are designed to support the conventional power system. Hence, it is crucial to create a conducive business environment to accelerate the deployment and power generation through solar PV and wind power. This research has adapted the theory of the business environment...
master thesis 2019
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Mustaqim, Mustaqim (author)
The use of geotextile for slope strengthening was proven based on the investigation and report by Kuwano, Miyata, and Koseki (2014). Therefore, this research examines the impact of geotextile application on slope stability in newly-elevated area in Yuriage, Natori City, Japan. This project discussed the analysis of geotextile-reinforced slope by...
master thesis 2018
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Möhring, Robert (author)
This research focused on the sustainable design of a regional transport system, by considering the trends of the aging society and shrinking city into its design process. Most developed counties shrink and age, especially Japan, which has major impact towards transportation and land use. Applied is a backcasting approach, which includes these...
master thesis 2018
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Dorgelo, Gerjan (author), van der Reijden, Ineke (author), Spannenburg, Trevor (author), van Delft, Vincent (author)
At the Shonai River around Nagoya, Japan, several flood related problems occur. These problems occur at different locations, each with its own problems or limitations. The desired safety level as requested by the government is that the river should be able to have a discharge which has a probability of failure of once in 200 years. At many...
student report 2018
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Vafa, Nasiem (author)
This graduation plan set in Japan, focussing on the reconstruction of the Japanese east coast in the prefecture of Miyagi that has been struck by a devastating tsunami in 2011. Working in an interdisciplinary set we design future prospects in an intertwined matter. Representing a new regional design strategy for the affected region by...
master thesis 2018
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Areso Rossi, Ainoa (author), Grigoris, Xenofon (author), Moncrieff, Neil (author), Oosterom, Marieke (author), van Overstraten Kruijsse, Femke (author), Suijkens, Sven (author)
Japan and the Netherlands have very different physical, historical and cultural contexts but they share a vulnerability to extreme flood related events and have, in both their (relatively) recent pasts, had to recover from such events: be they the floods of 1953 in the Netherlands or the tsunami that hit Japan’s east coast in 2011. This paper...
student report 2018
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Löffler, Beate (author), Mager, Tino (author), Hein, C.M. (author)
report 2018
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Zijlstra, H. (author)
During earlier stays in Japan, in 2012 and 2014, I was struck by the great attention to detail, in the scale of the buildings, the streetscape, as well as in the clothing and the presentation of food. Life seems to be an accumulation of independent details that sometimes contrast considerably with one another. A city is made up of buildings, and...
book chapter 2018
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Esteban, Miguel (author), Bricker, J.D. (author), San Carlos Arce, Ricardo (author), Takagi, Hiroshi (author), Yun, Nam Yi (author), Chaiyapa, Warathida (author), Sjoegren, Alexander (author), Shibayama, Tomoya (author)
Awareness about the threats posed by different types of coastal disasters has increased throughout the world, as people are exposed to the nature of these hazards through media reports on events in distant countries. This has resulted in coastal residents being aware about the destructive power of tsunamis, despite no such events having taken...
journal article 2018
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Kadarman, Randy (author)
This graduation thesis is about finding a meaningful application for the emerging technology of 3D food printing within the cultural context of urban Japan. The method was based on Verganti’s Design driven innovation to (re)define the meaning of the product. The analysis phase deconstructed the product into its physical capabilities and its...
master thesis 2017
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Horsten, B.P.M. (author)
The inundation height of the Tohoku tsunami of 2011 exceeded the design levels of many coastal barriers and several structures collapsed. Hundreds of seawalls and breakers are (planned to be) (re)built in the Tohoku district. There is much debate about the conventional tsunami walls and it is therefore suggested to consider alternative tsunami...
master thesis 2016
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Hartmann, J.H. (author)
At this moment the global human wealth is getting to the next level, which means a growing amount of people is able to travel by plane and these growth figures are seen in the latest global annual passenger’s flows. These latest developments demand building new airports and extending the existing airports heavily around the world in the nearby...
master thesis 2014
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Fuchs, M.J. (author), Bouman, J. (author), Broerse, D.B.T. (author), Visser, P.N.A.M. (author), Vermeersen, L.L.A. (author)
The Japan Tohoku-Oki earthquake (9.0 Mw) of 11 March 2011 has left signatures in the Earth's gravity field that are detectable by data of the Gravity field Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission. Because the European Space Agency's (ESA) satellite gravity mission Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE)—launched...
journal article 2013
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Cui, H. (author)
This thesis has involved the development of an unstructured grid ocean model, H2Ocean, with accurate flooding and drying algorithms for tsunami studies. The research is co-funded by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany, as part of their contribution to the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System, which is installed...
doctoral thesis 2013
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Anonymous, A. (author)
The purpose of the guide is to provide guidance for determining the potential tsunami inundation, which becomes the basis for planning and implementing measures for developing tsunami-resilient communities. The guide summarizes the tsunami inundation simulation, an effective means of fulfilling the above purpose, and how to utilize it.
report 2012
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