The debate about the world wide web is of vital importance. Will it remain the democratic place of unconditional meeting and community building, or will it become a tool in the hands of governments, trillion dollar companies and the mafia, in order to secretly establish a dictatorship of control and …

Fraeylemaborg is a noble house in an earthquake-stricken area of the Netherlands due to the induced seismicity events in the region. The structure is located in the middle of the town of Slochteren which gave its name to the largest gas field in the world upon its discovery in 1959. The gas extraction …

Politics defines many aspects of people’s lives, even when most of them are not directly involved in political processes and have no chance to do so. Born 2500 years ago in Athens, for broader public democracy became the way to influence their societies’ lives: discussions that were previously held behind …

”Landscape as House” is about animating my families landscape through a new form of topographic living: a frag-mented house embedded into forests, meadows and the village. This house creates a life constituted of movement through landscape, on the scale of a farmers ground, with rooms inhabiting its …

The next generation fulfilment centres are large logistic properties that respond to the growth of business to consumer e-commerce. To respond appropriately, these custom-made properties have to provide an optimal environment aligned to the e-retail strategy to generate as much productivity, cost reduction …

This research was created as a contribution to the internationalization strategy of RAI Amsterdam. The company wants to bring more international conferences, and exhibitions to Amsterdam. One of the objectives of this strategy is to create an ‘international standard’, which complies with the basic services, …

Objective: The aim was to create a reliable information provisioning system in healthcare for both care and research processes, based on existing data standards and standardized electronic messages. The research question is: How can a Clinical Data Ware House (CDWH) be developed for standardized basic …

De vraag naar woon-, werk- en recreatiegebieden in de overstromingsgevoelige IJssel-Vechtdelta blijft ondanks de waterperikelen. De geplande bypass bij Kampen is niet geheel onomstreden. Het deelt het bestaande cultuurlandschap in tweeën. Door de minimale breedte zijn er hoge dijken nodig waarachter …

De Mars in Zutphen is een meer dan 125 jaar oud bedrijventerrein en is 200 hectare groot. Naast de bedrijvigheid van industrie, groothandel en dienstverlening, wordt een nieuwe woonwijk gepland: Noorderhaven. In 2011 is gestart met de bouw van de eerste woningen. Dit rapport borduurt voort op de huidige …

In de jaren ’60 van de vorige eeuw is een deel van de Drachtstervaart gedempt, waardoor boten niet langer het centrum van Drachten konden bereiken. Tijdens het dempen van de vaart is een kokerriool geplaatst die als berging dient voor de riool overstorten. Er zijn plannen ontstaan om de vaart weer open …