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A.D. Brand
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Building with Nature as a cross-disciplinary approach
The role of hybrid contributions
The incentive for this publication was to expand the realm of enquiry around the topic of Building with Nature (BwN), for two main reasons. First to gain an interdisciplinary, and therefore deeper, understanding of BwN as an object of study. Secondly, but no less important, is an
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Towards developing a new model for inclusive cities in China
The case of Xiong'an New Area
Along with unprecedented urbanization in the last few decades, cities have experienced rapid social and economic transformation in China. A major challenge facing urban authorities in the immediate future is how to plan and govern cities such that they can serve as inclusive syst
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The Eastern Scheldt Survey
A concise overview of the estuary pre- and post barrier - Part 2: SURVEY
The aim of this survey is to give a concise overview of the pre- and post-barrier functioning of the Eastern Scheldt estuary. The survey builds upon the Eastern Scheldt Memo (dated March 2016), which explored possible sources and shortlisted leading publications, key institutes a
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The Eastern Scheldt Survey
A concise overview of the estuary pre- and post barrier - Part 1: MEMO
The aim of this survey is to give a concise overview of the pre- and post-barrier functioning of the Eastern Scheldt estuary. The survey builds upon the Eastern Scheldt Memo (dated March 2016), which explored possible sources and shortlisted leading publications, key institutes a
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Hurricane Harvey Report
A fact-finding effort in the direct aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in the Greater Houston Region
On August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Rockport, Texas as a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of approximately 200 km/hour. Harvey caused severe damages in coastal Texas due to extreme winds and storm surge, but will go down in history for record-
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Education for Water Resilient Cities
A one-day symposium for teachers and students for the City We Need
This report is the result of a symposium organised by the department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the TU Delft on May 14 2018. with the objective to discuss ideas, methodologies and challenges of a planning and design education for water
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The Impact of Urban Planning and Governance on the Historic Built Environment (PICH)
Final Report of the JPI-JHEP funded project
This report summarises the findings of the JPI Heritage Plus PICH Project’s nvestigation
of the impact of the reform of urban planning on the historic built environment. The project team conducted twelve in-depth case studies in Italy, the Netherlands,
Norway and the UK covering
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Plan evaluation for flood-resilient communities
The plan integration for resilience scorecard
Planning for land use and the built environment is critical for flood resilience. Communities that acknowledge and plan for hazards throughout an integrated network of plans are generally more resilient than those where guidance conflicts and hazards are downplayed. Through the s
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Plan evaluation for flood-resilient communities
The plan integration for resilience scorecard
Planning for land use and the built environment is critical for flood resilience. Communities that acknowledge and plan for hazards throughout an integrated network of plans are generally more resilient than those where guidance conflicts and hazards are downplayed. Through the s
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Making Room for the River
Applying a Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard to a Network of Plans in Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Problem, research strategy, and findings: In this study we analyze plan integration for flood resilience in the city of Nijmegen, the site of the largest Room for the River project in The Netherlands. Little is known about the degree to which local and regional plans are coordina
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Spatially evaluating a network of plans and flood vulnerability using a Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard
A case study in Feijenoord District, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Rising damages from hazard events have led to calls for innovative research on resilience. Consistent integration of mitigation policies throughout a community's network of plans is increasingly seen as essential for effective resilience planning. To better understand coordinatio
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Adapting a systems perspective for sectoral coordination
Approaching flood resilience in Houston and Accra
Increasing resilience to flooding is a complex process that requires horizontal and vertical coordination between institutions in policy making and implementation. This paper explores the effect of institutional coordination on managing flood risk in two cities plagued by floodin
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Urbanism
PhD. research 2008-2012
This book is a collection of recent PhD papers from the Department of Urbanism, TU Delft. Urbanism is the academic discipline concerned with understanding the spatial organisation and dynamics of urban areas. The quality of the urban environment is a determining factor in the soc
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Governance and planning as boundary conditions for flood risk reduction in Texas
Galveston Island’s flood risk challenge
Galveston Island is a barrier island with a population of approximately 60,000, located between Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico on the Texas coast. Due to its location, Galveston is not only on the front line of hurricane-induced storm surges coming from the Gulf, it is also
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When the
MFFD program took off in 2012, its general goal was to gain a deeper
understanding of multifunctional flood defenses, in order to provide a solid
foundation for their design, assessment and management. As a point of
departure, it assumed that a new generation of explicit
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HOUSTON, we’ve got a problem
Introduction program case Houston Galveston Bay Region, Texas (USA)
Various interesting tools were used and/or developed to stimulate knowledge integration in the Multifunctional Flood Defenses program. This chapter will present a diverse collection of these tools, hopefully stimulating others to consider using some of them in future.@en
Everything is bigger in Texas
Reflection program case ‘Houston Galveston Bay, Texas’
The saying goes that
‘Everything is bigger in Texas.’ This holds true for both the flood risk in the
Houston-Galveston Bay Area, and for the complexity of issues that need to be
dealt with in order to reduce it – assuming there is agreement that the current
risk is unacceptable.
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An exploration of Landscape Identity and Flood Safety, a delta dilemma?
On the reconciliation of the anthropogenic and natural flux in the peat pasture delta landscape through Building with Nature
A sectoral flood safety approach has been the critical condition for Delta Urbanization in the Netherlands until now. But does this have to be the case for future urbanization as well? In the Dutch approach to flood safety, a dilemma appears to exist between (sectoral) flood safe
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Building with Nature perspectives
Cross-disciplinary BwN approaches in coastal regions
This publication offers an overview of the latest cross-disciplinary developments in the field of Building with Nature (BwN) for the protection of coastal regions. The key philosophy of BwN is the employment of natural processes to serve societal goals, such as flood safety. The
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