Cities are in a constant process of change and are the theater of interaction among people and their complex, historically multi-layered, culturally diverse living environment. Therefore, various interests, needs, and values affect these dynamics of interaction and urban change, which bring challenges and opportunities for the development of cities. Particularly, when urban development deals with such complex living environment and the management and conservation of both listed and non-listed...

Begin 21ste eeuw landt een golf Afrikanen op de zuidkust van Sicilië, in wrakke bootjes en zonder verblijfspapieren. De Arabische Lente heeft hun landen in chaos gestort en zij zoeken hun heil in dit meest dichtbije stukje Europa. Europese politici spreken van ‘pech’, een gevolg van de geringe afstand tussen Sicilië en Afrika. Toch gold die nabijheid lang als gelukkig.

Liefst twee duizend jaar profiteerde Sicilië van zijn centrale ligging in de Middellandse Zee en zijn nauwe banden met...

Begin 21ste eeuw landt een golf Afrikanen op de zuidkust van Sicilië, in wrakke bootjes en zonder verblijfspapieren. De Arabische Lente heeft hun landen in chaos gestort en zij zoeken hun heil in dit meest dichtbije stukje Europa. Europese politici spreken van ‘pech’, een gevolg van de geringe afstand tussen Sicilië en Afrika. Toch gold die nabijheid lang als gelukkig.

Liefst twee duizend jaar profiteerde Sicilië van zijn centrale ligging in de Middellandse Zee en zijn nauwe banden met...

A History of Suriname presents the first comprehensive overview in English to cover the distant past as well as current events in the former Dutch colony located on the Wild Coast of South America where Spanish and English adventurers once presumed El Dorado. This study concerns original Indigenous inhabitants, the arrival of enslaved Africans who toiled away on plantations, the colonial economy with its trade relations with both Europe and North America, the immigration of Asian indentured l...

Cities are in a constant process of change and are the theater of interaction among people and their complex, historically multi-layered, culturally diverse living environment. Therefore, various interests, needs, and values affect these dynamics of interaction and urban change, which bring challenges and opportunities for the development of cities. Particularly, when urban development deals with such complex living environment and the management and conservation of both listed and non-listed...

A History of Suriname presents the first comprehensive overview in English to cover the distant past as well as current events in the former Dutch colony located on the Wild Coast of South America where Spanish and English adventurers once presumed El Dorado. This study concerns original Indigenous inhabitants, the arrival of enslaved Africans who toiled away on plantations, the colonial economy with its trade relations with both Europe and North America, the immigration of Asian indentured l...