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Participate! Portraits of Cities and Citizens in Action is een inleiding tot de complexe wereld van de stadsontwikkeling, identiteit en participatie. In het boek wordt uitgelegd hoe in het zelfbeeld van steden resoneert in hun benadering van de stadsontwikkeling. De basis van het boek bestaat uit zes portretten van Europese steden: Berlijn, Hamburg, Parijs, Lyon, Amsterdam en Groningen.

Het boek voorziet in een behoefte door een algemene inleiding tot de genoemde steden,...

Heritage—natural and cultural, material and immaterial—plays a key role in the development of sustainable cities and communities. Goal 11, target 4, of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasizes the relation between heritage and sustainability. The International LDE Heritage conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development Goals, which took place from 26 to 28 November 2019 at TU Delft in the Netherlands, examined the theories, methodologies, and practices of heritage and SDGs....

The 17th International Architecture Exhibition, in Venice from 22 May to 21 November 2021, is titled How will we live together?. As curator Hashim Sarkis explains, "the theme of the Biennale Architettura 2021 is its title": organized into five different scales, the Exhibition presents the Participants who will compete for the Golden Lion and also includes a series of research stations developed by researchers from universities around the world.

Volume I of the Catalogue is dedicated to the In...

Twelve one-hour video lectures are archived online, and can be accessed for free. These lectures apply cutting-edge mathematical techniques to architectural and urban design. The course material is original, and includes innovative topics such as algorithms, fractals, cellular automata, complexity, emergence, information theory, symmetries, scaling, codes, and networks, here introduced into architecture and urbanism for the first time. Students from around the world can now learn the intellig...

The richness and diversity of Dutch contributions to the built environment of South Africa remain little-known in the study of twentieth-century architectural history. Between 1902 and 1961 more than seventy Dutch-born émigré architects were active from the Cape to the Highveld, both in major towns and remote areas, and they designed hundreds of buildings and neighbourhoods. A sequel to the acclaimed Eclectic ZA Wilhelmiens: A Shared Dutch Built Heritage in South Africa, Common Ground reve...

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Platform Urbanism beschrijft de toenemende mate waarin baanbrekende technologie wordt toegepast in de stedelijke omgeving.

Het gaat hierbij om veranderingen die niet alleen worden veroorzaakt door de technologie, maar ook door de interactie tussen technologische innovatie en sociale en culturele behoeften. Digitale platforms zoals Facebook, Uber, Airbnb en Amazon zijn niet alleen nieuwe soorten ondernemingen, maar staan ook voor een compleet nieuwe manier van leven – v...

The Writingplace journal for Architecture and Literature is an international, open-acces, peer-reviewed journal on architecture and literature. Each issue of the journal focuses on themes central to the fruitful relationship between architecture and literature.

This Writingplace journal issue Meaningfulness, Appropriation and Integration in/of City Narratives is developed in context of the EU COST Action “Writing Urban Places”. From an inter- or a multidisciplinary theoretical perspecti...

To speed up residential energy retrofitting in the Hot Summer and Cold Winter(HSCW) zone, the barriers to retrofitting projects need elimination. Energy retrofitting contributes to improving building quality and living comfort, but has not been accepted by the public. It stems from poor project performance in quality, time, costs, etc. The risk is an essential factor hindering such project objectives and project success. Residential energy retrofitting in China is exposed to various risks due...