Nederland is door mensen gemaakt. In steden, polders, landinrichting, zelfs in natuurgebieden is de ordenende menselijk hand zichtbaar. De planmatige inrichting is even uniek als befaamd.

Dit boek beschrijft de intrigerende geschiedenis van de ruimtelijke ordening van Nederland, vanaf de late middeleeuwen tot nu. Waar komt de sterke neiging tot ordening en planning vandaan? Die duizenden plannen, ging dat altijd goed? Of sloegen de planologen en stedenbouwkundigen de plank wel eens mis?

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The thesis, titled ‘Towards the Integration of Additive Manufacturing for Freeform Steel and Glass Façade Construction,’ explores the transformative role of additive manufacturing (AM) in enhancing the design and construction of Freeform Steel and Glass Façades (FFSGF). These façades involve intricate components, necessitating collaborative efforts among designers, engineers, and fabricators to achieve complex façade geometries with good performance while ensuring efficiency in design...

The Taiwan Strait is a liminal space, and a natural incubator. These two conditions create a unique opportunity for implementing a future city-making process.

The Conscious City concept brings together all the challenges facing contemporary city-making. It is a concept for the urban curation processes required for future cities; for adapting to the impacts of climate change, emerging intelligences, a growing population, affordable housing, the need for a new pact with nature, as well as navi...

For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use - or could use - the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people.

Taking into account changi...