Twee jaar geleden zijn we gestart met de ontwikkeling van het Sprong consortium Greening Corridors. De focus van Greening Corridors richt zich enerzijds op het verduurzamen van achterlandverbindingen en anderzijds het ontwikkelen van een sterk consortium. Dit artikel laat zien hoe welke partijen in het …

As a full company, with corresponding overhead costs, the average cost to hire a designer working for Witteveen + Bos is €90 per hour. In comparison, an experienced self employed designer working from home with a yearly income of €100.000 will do the same job for roughly €60 to €70 per hour (€100.000 …

Hometown is dedicated to the economically homeless: the nest flyers, the singles on a low income, the pensioners, collectives, students, a wide variety of home seekers who hardly have a chance to succeed in the present housing situation. The whole spectrum of financial, legal, social, urban, and architectural …

Er is een tekort aan recreatiegebieden en natuur in de provincie Utrecht. De provincie Utrecht staat ook voor een verstedelijkingsopgave. Natuurbeleid zou meer verbonden moeten worden met andere sectoren, bijvoorbeeld de woningbouw. Een manier om natuur en landschap mee te laten ontwikkelen met de verstedelijking …

Population ageing has been a focus of research since the 1960s (Michael et al. 2006), and it has become a domain of international discussions, debates and research throughout a myriad of disciplines including housing, urban planning and real estate (Buffel and Phillipson 2016, van Bronswijk 2015, Kort …

The Dutch conservation area Oostvaardersplassen was initiated as a rewilding project within the Netherlands’ protected area network. It came under the spotlight when management strategies and practices were criticized by scientists, conservation practitioners, and the public, from a number of perspectives …

This article aims to supplement the three “golden rules” of rewilding – or three Cs – the Cores, Carnivores, and Corridors – by a fourth C – Compassion, in discussing the case of Oostvaardeplassen in The Netherlands. The cores refer to large, strictly protected ecologically intact areas, carnivores refer …

Fast charging is seen as a means to facilitate long-distance driving for electric vehicles (EVs). As a result, roll-out planning generally takes a corridor approach. However, with higher penetration of electric vehicles in urban areas, cities contemplate whether inner-city fast chargers can be an alternative …

Fast charging is usually seen as a means to facilitate long distance driving for electric vehicles and roll-out therefore often happens with corridors in mind. Due to limited charging speeds, EV drivers usually tend to charge at home or work when the car is parked for a longer period to avoid unnecessarily …

The Amsterdam Sensor Lab is part of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and its goal is to develop application specific sensor systems for applied research. In order to (anonymously) measure, for instance, traffic without influencing people’s behaviour, a pressure sensing sub-tile is …