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Prokopiuk, Katarzyna (author)This research investigates the importance of leisure practices in bringing rivers back to cities. It explores the historical and present significance of water-based recreation and its role in urban ecosystems. The paper analyses the development of waterfronts from centres of social activity, through their industrialization and neglect, to a...student report 2024
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Seis, W.A.A. (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author), Rouault, Pascale (author), Steffelbauer, D.B. (author), Medema, G.J. (author)Short-term fecal pollution events are a major challenge for managing microbial safety at recreational waters. Long turn-over times of current laboratory methods for analyzing fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) delay water quality assessments. Data-driven models have been shown to be valuable approaches to enable fast water quality assessments....journal article 2024
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Jansen op de Haar, Carmen (author)This graduation project explores the implementation of integrated and sustainable land use planning as a crucial strategy for transforming the BPL MD region into a thriving and biodiverse area that benefits both humans and nature. By emphasizing landscape identity, water storage, the livability of meadow birds, and balancing recreational...master thesis 2023
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Pasdar Yazd, Baahar (author)Netherlands urban canals are not designated as official bathing sites for recreation, and their water quality is not monitored routinely. The municipality of Breda has ambitious plans to ensure the recreational water quality in the Breda canals during the bathing season. <br/><br/>The purpose of this study was investigation of microbial water...master thesis 2023
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Litjens, Thomas (author)The aim of this research is to develop a transport model that is able to identify potential conflicts and bottlenecks for nautical recreational activities in the IJburgbaai, an open-space water area in the eastern part of Amsterdam.master thesis 2022
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Feng, Zhenduo (author)The city itself serves as a stage for major sports events and as a sports space for individual and not organized sports such as running, biking and skateboarding. The scale of sports spaces ranges from large sports parks for professional competition and narrow allies for informal jogging. People’s movement brings energy to urban life while the...master thesis 2022
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Fang, David (author)A building complex, including a kayak clubhouse and a hostel, is proposed on the former industrial terrain of the Sappi paper factory. This project is contextualized in an urban proposal that aims to regenerate the south part of the Sappi factory, by creating new connections and bringing the isolated site back to the city. The building, situated...master thesis 2022
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Jääskeläinen, Juulia (author)Exploration on the peri-urban transition zone between Trieste and its hinterland Karst through housing, recreation and transportation infrastructure. The design proposal consists of system of small interventions that take into account the land management problems of the peri-urban hills.master thesis 2022
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van der Sanden, Eveline (author)In the current moment in time, the interest in sustainability is growing. Companies need to transition towards a more sustainable business model. One of the ways to do this is to become more circular. <br/><br/>The circular economy is an economic system aimed at eliminating waste and on the continuous reuse of resources. The end goal is to get...master thesis 2022
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Oshinusi, Fola-Sade Victoria (author)The ways in which we harness biomass for biofuels are inextricably linked to water management, food security, waste management, and societal well-being. Whilst the increased use of biomass for biofuel within the Netherlands is considered a positive move, external factors known as indirect land-use change make current practices more unsustainable...master thesis 2022
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van der Meulen, E. S. (author), van Oel, P. R. (author), Rijnaarts, H. H.M. (author), Sutton, N. B. (author), van de Ven, F.H.M. (author)Urban surface waters are used in many different ways. With increasing demand for human use functions, improved insight is required into the functional quality of these waters. A method to assess this functional quality in a systematic way and for a wide variety of use functions is not available. We propose to use suitability indices (SIs) for...journal article 2022
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Boot, Sophie (author)Over the last decade, summer recreation in urban green-blue open spaces has become increasingly popular in Amsterdam, but so has the amount of reported nuisance because of summer recreation. In this thesis, the nuisance that has been reported by citizens during the summer recreation season from 2020 has been analysed by coding the reports in...master thesis 2021
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Gary Gilson, Gary (author)The Rotterdam urban fabric is built in an area of amalgamation of very interesting landscape conditions surrounding it. Defined by the rich natural and cultural history, this structure has been home to different habitats for a variety of flora and fauna. However, the urban core disconnects these areas due to the lack of diverse ecological green...master thesis 2021
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Gentenaar, Tom (author)Zeewolde is het jongste dorp uit de Flevopolder, desalniettemin kent het een interessante geschiedenis. Lange tijd was de stichting van het dorp, vanwege teruglopende werkgelegenheid in de landbouw, onzeker. Door Zeewolde te situeren nabij het recreatiegebied aan het Wolderwijd kon zij zowel een verzorgende rol spelen voor de agrarische...student report 2021
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Bobbink, I. (author)The course AR1LA051, which is part of the landscape architecture master of the TU Delft, explores the water system of the Dutch lowlands. In a collaborative effort 15 students, split in seven teams, work together to transform a “boezem”-system on the fringe of Rotterdam. The individual efforts of each group and the overall group strategy are...report 2021
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Smith, Marcus (author), Miller, S.R.M. (author)Genomic data is growing in importance as scientific knowledge and technology develop, and in availability, as direct-to-consumer genomic health testing and recreational genealogy services become more widely utilized. Access to genomic data needs to be considered in light of individual privacy. Cross-sector use of genomic health and ancestry data...journal article 2021
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Liu, Huiying (author)Estate landscapes are vulnerable to climate change. Especially regarding water management, these landscapes face severe challenges regarding shortage and abundance of water, which affects the gardens, ecosystem, forestry and agriculture of these estates. Also, many estates are still inaccessible and remain unknown to the broader public. This...master thesis 2020
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Mankutė, Aistė (author)During thirty years of independent Lithuania, numerous iconic modern and postmodern buildings from the Soviet period had been demolished. Only in recent years architects and preservationists have started to protest and communicate the message of opposition to such activities but in most cases, it is too late to save an artifice.<br/>In the rich...student report 2020
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van Lochem, Jelmer (author)In thedynamic world we live in, the transportation of people and goods in a reliable,efficient and timely manner has grown to be more important than ever. Roads andcities are becoming more congested and the impact of greenhouse gasses canalready be observed. The need for controlling transportation systems, andspecifically fleets of vehicles,...master thesis 2019
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Mouter, N. (author), Cabral, Manuel Ojeda (author), Dekker, T. (author), van Cranenburgh, S. (author)Environmental effects of transport projects have a weak position in Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) which might be rooted in the valuation approach adopted in the dominant style of CBA. This conventional valuation approach has been criticized for not valuing positive and negative impacts of transport projects in relation to each other and for not...journal article 2019