Van Lohuizen and Van Eesteren: Partners in Planning and Education at TH Delft

This small booklet contains the inaugural speeches of Th. K. van Lohuizen and Cor van Eesteren on their appointments as professors at the Technical College of Delft. The texts provide novel insights into their respective teaching programs, and appear here for the first time in English. An analytical reflection on their work by the architectural...

Commentary: The need for a high-accuracy, open-access global DEM

A Commentary on 'The Need for a High-Accuracy, Open-Access Global DEM' by Schumann, G. J.-P., and Bates, P. D. (2018). Front. Earth Sci. 6:225. doi: 10.3389/feart.2018.00225

Hydrogeology of an urban weathered basement aquifer in Kampala, Uganda

Weathered basement aquifers are vital sources of drinking water in Africa. In order to better understand their role in the urban water balance, in a weathered basement aquifer in Kampala, Uganda, this study installed a transect of monitoring piezometers, carried out spring flow and high-frequency groundwater level monitoring, slug tests and...

Overview - Emerging Urban Perspectives

Glancing into Future Cities—City Futures

Prologue - Future Cities - City Futures

Epilogue—Towards a Transdisciplinary Discussion on Future Cities and City Futures

Future Cities—City Futures: Emerging Urban Perspectives

The book is about future cities and possible scenarios for city futures. A question central to this book is how to face urban challenges while providing and safeguarding positive outcomes, concerned with the improvement of the quality of urban life: How can future cities be made more liveable, sustainable, and resilient? How can cities continue...

Additive manufacturing in cities: Closing circular resource loops

Cities are the core of social interactions and resource consumption in our current times. However, urban systems are still largely based on linear activities in which resources are discarded after usage. Current practices around waste reduce possibilities of circularity, mainly due to low percentages of sorting and recycling practices in high...