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Dalgiç, K.D. (author), Gulen, D. Burcu (author), Acikgoz, Sinan (author), Burd, Harvey (author), Hendriks, M.A.N. (author), Giardina, Giorgia (author), Ilki, Alper (author)Underground construction activities, such as tunnelling, cause local ground movements to occur. Nearby surface structures interact with the moving ground, potentially leading to building damage. Although it is understood that the severity of building damage is influenced by the façade opening ratio (OpR) and the stiffness of the floors,...conference paper 2021
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ten Bosch, Sofie (author)Land subsidence is a complicated phenomenon, relevant in the Holocene coastal-plain of the Netherlands, that can be triggered by many different mechanisms and components. To cope with the effects of land subsidence, detailed information on which mechanisms are causing subsidence and its variation over time and space are needed. Subsidence...master thesis 2020
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Elschot, Samantha (author)The former town hall of Winterswijk became vacant over the years. By choosing a new function for the town hall, the ensemble will be revitalized. The challenge is to make appropriate interventions in the building while at the same time maintaining characteristic elements of the ensemble with the requirements of today. The chosen function is a...master thesis 2020
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Raghunathan, Pavithra (author)The Netherlands has for long been witnessing problems due to subsidence. While urban infrastructure is mostly safeguarded from differential settlement by deep pile foundations, the same cannot be said about greenhouses. The greenhouses of the Netherlands has enabled the country to become the largest exporter of vegetables, second only to the...master thesis 2020
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van Aanholt, Levi (author)Procedural content generation (PCG) for architecture is widely used in a variety of digital media, most notably in games. However, such methods are often limited in their expressive range, and require considerable technical knowledge to create non-trivial architectural structures. We present a novel tile-based PCG approach for generating...master thesis 2020
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Subačiūtė, S. (author)Ethiopia alone is one of the most rapidly growing countries not only in the continent of Africa but also in the whole world. The country is populated by almost 110 million inhabitants and only 20% of the whole population is living in the cities. Over 65% of the population from rural areas have started to follow the migration patterns from rural...master thesis 2020
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Li, J. (author)With the interest of redesigning non-monumental heritage groups, the Architects worked on the district called Pecinan (the Chinese-Javanese quarter) in Semarang, Indonesia. The site problems require to improve district livability, to renovate cultural variety, and to enrich the old town's heritage quality. The research highly considered with...master thesis 2020
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Fong, Joyce (author)Like many other coastal cities, Semarang is facing many interconnected water-related issues that are exacerbated by climate change and rapid urbanization. Riverside kampungs, as the product of unregulated urbanization, are usually blamed for the water pollution and are regarded as the social outcast and burden to the society. Removing the...master thesis 2020
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Verloop, Rosanne (author)During the boring of a tunnel in soft soils with a slurry TBM, support pressure is used to achieve equilibrium at the face of the TBM. When this equilibrium is not reached, when the face support pressure is too low or too high, settlements will occur. In this research settlement and pore water pressure measurements are used to monitor the...master thesis 2020
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Landburg, Danique (author)On September 6th of 2017 Sint Maarten got struck by Hurricane Irma, which caused severe damage to the houses, especially to the informal settlements. Sint Maarten is a Caribbean island with a rooted past from its history that has caused severe economic difficulties. Along with, a high amount of migration that has been common among he islands,...master thesis 2020
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Vonk, Michiel (author)To fight increasing traffic in city centres, tunnelling can be used to move traffic under the surface of the busy city. However, to prevent damage to the surrounding buildings, the settlements induced by the tunnelling should be kept to a minimum. This thesis researches the influence of the TBM tail void and its grouting process on the...master thesis 2020
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Weenink, Noortje (author)This project looks at both the role of Gibraltar within the global ecology and the dynamics of the local ecology on the peninsula. It describes how Gibraltar’s geomorphology—a mountain surrounded by water, located between two water bodies and two continents—has resulted a unique local ecology that is vital for the global ecosystem. Carried by...master thesis 2020
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Stevens, Denise (author)This design focuses on the upliftment of the community in the settlement Zandspruit, which is located on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa. This is done by creating a community centre with a large program of requirements.<br/>Important is the creation of an innovative building structure, that the community members should be able to...master thesis 2020
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Schwake, G. (author)This paper focuses on Kochav-Yair and Oranit, two localities that exemplify the Israeli Suburban Settlement phenomenon. With the first being developed by a selective group of families and the latter by a single private entrepreneur, yet both with the full support of the state, they represent the selective privatisation of the national settlement...journal article 2020
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Zhang, Q. (author), Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (author)The 2014 hukou reform introduced by the Chinese central government was a turning point in China’s policies towards migration. Different from the previous hukou policies, which were largely exclusionary, the reformed policy encouraged migrants to permanently settle in their destination cities and make use of the public services available there....journal article 2020
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Guo, Y. (author), Wang, Jianxi (author), Markine, V.L. (author), Jing, Guoqing (author)With the train speed and axle load increasing, excessive stresses are produced and transmitted to the ballast layer, inducing rapid ballast degradation. To solve this issue, the under sleeper pads (USPs) have been widely applied between sleepers and ballast particles as the elastic layer. In this research, laboratory tests using half-sleeper...journal article 2020
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Fajardo, Sebastian (author), Hofstede, Gert Jan (author), de Vries, Martijn (author), Kramer, Mark R. (author), Bernal, Andrés (author)Studies of colonization processes in past human societies often use a standard population model in which population is represented as a single quantity. Real populations in these processes, however, are structured with internal classes or stages, and classes are sometimes created based on social differentiation. In this present work,...journal article 2020
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Fuchs, Armin (author)Praying for Water deals with several water related challenges in Bandung’s informal urban areas, first and foremost the lack of safe drinking water and proper sanitation. Although being based on the proposal for a decentralized water supply system, a rather holistic solution approach is followed. Beyond the use of appropriate technical...master thesis 2019
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Blankestijn, Rick (author)“Upwards along the pipes” focuses on the Tamansari subdistrict in Bandung, Indonesia, in which the Cikapundung river is a central physical element, dividing the highly dense informal settlements in two. The project tries to tackle several ecological and spatial issues occuring within the site, including a large amount of (organic) waste being...master thesis 2019
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Zain, N.H.M. (author)Organic soils and peat soils are widely distributed across the world, particularly in the Northern hemisphere in countries like Canada and Russia having 170 and 150 million hectares respectively and in tropical regions such as Indonesia and Malaysia, which contain 26 million and 3 million hectares respectively. Organic soils and peat are...doctoral thesis 2019