Due to climate change the frequency of extreme precipitation increases. To reduce the risk of damage by flooding, municipalities will need to retrofit urban areas in a climate-resilient way. To justify this investment, they need insight in possibilities and costs of climate-resilient urban street designs. …

The ‘Grand Challenges’ of our times, like climate change, resource depletion, global inequity, and the destruction of wildlife and biodiversity can only be addressed by innovating cities. Despite the options of tele-working, tele-trading and tele-amusing, that allow people to participate in ever …

La Prosperité is an old colonial timber plantation in the rural district of Para in Suriname, which was purchased by a group of former plantation workers after the abolition of slavery. It is occupied by the small village of Bersaba which consists primarily of descendants of those who passed it on as …