The use of unmanned aircrafts, commonly known as drones, is developing at a fast pace worldwide. Drones are extremely versatile and capable of performing a wide variety of applications. However, applicable regulations are still lagging behind in technological progress and volume growth.

The authors provide an in-depth study on prevailing drone law and policy in order to achieve a seamless integration of drone technology into the legal order of civil aviation. The drone market largely depends ...

Via Twitter oefende Trump presidentiele macht uit, op een geheel eigen demagogische wijze. Twitter gaf Trump de mogelijkheid om direct met zijn volgers in contact te treden, waar hij dankbaar gebruik van maakte. Via tientallen tweets per dag strooide hij directieven, meningen, beledigingen, intimidaties en oordelen uit die zijn tachtig miljoen volgers gretig lazen. Hij schiep hiermee een parallelle realiteit en een vijandsbeeld. Tegengas van traditionele media werd consequent als ‘Fake News...

In Colonial Legacies, Gabriella Nugent examines a generation of contemporary artists born or based in the Congo whose lens-based art attends to the afterlives and mutations of Belgian colonialism in postcolonial Congo. Focusing on three artists and one artist collective, Nugent analyses artworks produced by Sammy Baloji, Michèle Magema, Georges Senga and Kongo Astronauts, each of whom offers a different perspective onto this history gleaned from their own experiences. In their photography an...

De Mexicaanse Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is zonder twijfel een van de bekendste en meest geliefde kunstenaars ter wereld. Door haar indrukwekkende kunstwerken, opvallende verschijning, roerige leven en bijzondere levensstijl is zij een wereldwijd icoon geworden.

Frida Kahlo heeft een onuitwisbare indruk achtergelaten met haar gedurfde gevoel voor schoonheid en haar idealen over gelijkheid voor iedereen. Hoewel haar leven grotendeels bepaald werd door tegenslag, wist ze haar pijn en emotionele st...

When cholera hit the small village of Scheveningen on the west coast of Holland in June 1832, it took everybody by surprise. It had been generally assumed that the deadly disease would come from the east. From India the pandemic had spread throughout Asia, reaching Russia, Poland, then Prussia…… Soldiers had fired their rifles to clear the air, ships had been quarantined, travellers had been stopped and questioned, all to no avail.

The first cases of cholera in the Netherlands were fierce...

Starting from informal cross-disciplinary conversations between colleagues, this volume is the result of an experiment in understanding the standpoints and methodologies of others in a multidisciplinary setting. At its heart are the core values of a liberal arts education: intellectual curiosity and the ability to communicate across borders. Written with the aim of communicating academic content to non-specialists, the essays interweave narratives about truth with various kinds of dialogue an...

"Nikos Salingaros is a mathematician who's also a brilliant thinker about architecture and urbanism. 'Solid' doesn't begin to hint at his virtues and talents, but isn't it nice when you encounter 'solid' in the world of the arts? Salingaros has worked closely with Christopher Alexander, and has become a major architecture theorist in his own right." -- Ray Sawhill.

"This is an interesting compilation of some of the important roots and evolutions of modernism and its latest development, the De...

Recently, Chinese Public Rental Housing (PRH) provision has witnessed a shift from ‘government’ to ‘governance’: policy making shifted from government steering to mixed forms involving government, market and civic actors to pursue effective and fair policies. In the meantime, this new-era PRH governance is credited with mixed results. However, the existing studies fail to describe the mechanisms underlying this new-era governance of PRH with the rising involvement of market actors and...