Vivir Juntos (Samen Leven) wil reflecteren op de architectuur en stedenbouw die de afgelopen decennia de kustgebieden van Spanje is gaan overheersen. De speciaal gebouwde projecten (voornamelijk stedelijke wildgroei) accommoderen honderdduizenden internationale pensioensmigranten - IPM - die, verleid …

De Olympische Spelen brengen veel publiciteit, bekendheid en investeringsmogelijkheden naar de organiserende landen en steden. Toch heeft deze Olympische medaille ook een keerzijde. Na de spelen is er vaak sprake van faillissementen en leegstand van de net gebouwde sport- en verblijfscomplexen, resulterend …

During the economic upturn after the housing collapse in 2018, recruitment agencies have seen their revenues increase. Companies are looking for suitable candidates to fill their staff vacancies, giving recruitment agencies the opportunity to do so with their service. However, Tempo-Team’s office in …

This research addresses the unsafety issue for transgender asylum seekers in asylum seek centres (Hereafter referred as ASCs), due to violence from other asylum seekers and inadequate support by employees in the ASCs as a result of transphobic attitudes. Literature shows a lack of insights of views, …

Coping with chronic or terminal diseases is a factor of permanent psychological stress, leading to negative subsequent stress symptoms; reflexology is a complementary medicine, based on the principle that specific areas of the feet, hands, andears are related to corresponding parts of the body and intends …

When everything is destined to be designed, design disappears into the everyday. We simply don’t see it anymore because it’s everywhere. This is the vanishing act of design. At this moment design registers its redundancy: our products, environments and services have been comprehensively improved. Everything …

This book discusses the way that a nature-driven approach to urbanism can be applied at each of the urban scales; architectural design, urban design of neighborhoods, city planning and landscape architecture, and at the city and regional scales. At all levels nature-driven approaches to design and planning …

Interconnecting cyber-physical systems in networks leads to the creation of cyber-physical system-of-systems. In a cyber-physical system-of-systems (CPSoS), systems communicate by exchanging and sharing data and information, which this chapter also refers to as interoperability of information. To ensure …

Although Grodzka Island is located in the heart of the city, many citizens of Szczecin have forgotten this piece of land. The island is surrounded by a very strong historical context of the popular cultural centre and an upcoming new hotspot in the city: the post-industrial harbour. Today, the city of …

Op 10 juli 2018 vond op Boerderij De Diek’n te Zeerijp in opdracht van Kenniscentrum Biobased Economy (KCBBE) van de Hanzehogeschool Groningen een schetsatelier plaats. Het atelier, dat onder leiding stond van landschapsarchitect Wim Boetze, was een pilot, beoogd om uitvoering te geven aan het Europese …