This study investigates how externally initiated development projects and the role of the architect may influence the self-reliance of a local community. The development aid for rural communities aims to improve the living quality, but often does not persist in the long run.

This book contains five views and architectural proposals for Cape Town, South Africa. The design project is a 3rd year project (P5) at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. Two lecturers and five students visited Cape Town in 2014, The metropolitan region of Cape Town has grown rampant for decades. …

This article describes a European project which was aimed at improving the situation of persons with psychiatric or learning disabilities with regard to social participation and citizenship. The project took place in three countries (Estonia, Hungary and the Netherlands) and four cities (Tallinn, Budapest, …

With regard to the increasing global competition for highly-skilled labour, the group of mobile international students is becoming more and more prominent in the considerations of national policy-makers. One concrete idea is to develop policies in order to bind international students and foreign knowledge workers …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how strategic vision of change is communicated by managers and how this affects the discourse behavior of service engineers. The case study describes the consequence of variations in professional discourse of managers and employees (mostly engineers) working …

Although minorities make up only 5-10% of the population in Europe, they receive a lot of negative attention in the media. Minorities are blamed for issues that range from a country's economic problems to cultural disharmony. As a result, the ethnic minorities feel as though they are on the outer edge …

This article presents a social analysis and a spatial outline of this quarter. On the basis of two cross-sections it is possible to study the social and spatial effects of industrialisation on this neighbourhood. Petrus Regout founded glassworks and a pottery there in the 1830’s. The demographic pressure …