This thesis has developed alternative methods of operationalising neighbourhoods at multiple spatial scales and used them to advance our understanding of spatial inequalities and neighbourhood effects. The underlying problem that motivated this thesis is that many empirical studies use predefined administrative units, and often this does not align with the underlying theory or geography. Despite the extensive literature on neighbourhood effects and, more generally, on sociospatial inequalitie...

Throughout his career, Herman van Bergeijk built his own unique expertise on the Dutch 19th and early 20th century architectural history. He has become an inspiration for scholars in the Netherlands, Europe and beyond. The extraordinary response of colleagues when asked to contribute a chapter in this Festschrift stands as an example of Herman’s widespread influence. Invitations for keynotes and lectures or courses keep reaching him, and he will continue to teach and write. He has an open i...

Jan De Vliegher’s (°1964, BE) paintings are a meeting of Abstract Expressionism and Impressionistic joie de vivre, joie de peindre pur sang. Since his debut in 1998 De Vliegher has been creating large-scale paintings based on his impressions of daily life. He finds beauty in the small such as paddling beachgoers and porcelain show-off crockery, but also in the large and luxurious such as the halls of Versailles and Venetian terraces. De Vliegher paints in series that have a fast, almost ob...

I am a re-born Christian who has seen much of the world's misery. I am a young man who, apart from kidnapping, has already experienced everything. A young man who has moved 64 times and sees his house as a place to sleep. Having difficulty recognizing it as his home. Who speaks different languages and is qualified in 11 subjects. I'm a boy who can do a lot, but keeps me in the background because of embarrassment. And even though I always look for people around me, and often look for confirmat...

I welcome you in this way of marriage. A marriage that comprises Chaos, beauty and structure. A marriage where desire is the natural thread within the desire to act from a personal experience.

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Organisations have long been dominated by the perspectives of the Good (quality) and the True (efficiency). The perspective of the Beautiful, an aesthetic lens on organisations, has largely been ignored or forgotten. The Beautiful includes stimuli in organisations that trigger aesthetic experiences through the presence or attribution of coherence, congruence, contact, completion, and curiosity in organisations. As the function of organisations changes, they become increasingly human-centred, ...

Creativiteit wordt geprezen als de drijvende kracht en de belangrijkste vaardigheid van de eenentwintigste eeuw. Het debat over de oorsprong en het potentieel van creativiteit speelt zich voornamelijk af binnen het domein van de natuur- en sociale wetenschappen, en weinig in de humaniora. Gebruikmakend van inzichten uit deze velden, puttend uit ideeën van Parmenides, Spinoza, Goethe, Emerson, Nietzsche, Freud, Benjamin, Bergson, Deleuze, Spivak en vele anderen, stelt Jeroen Lutters dat creat...