This thesis deals with urban art serving as an umbrella term for artistic practices taking place in cities, including graffiti, street art, and murals in combination with its utilization for city branding. The research ...

The purpose of this research was to investigate the social, societal and political role of urban public space in and prerequisites and sensibilities needed for addressing the city’s colonial slave trade history in the ...

Cities are increasingly being recognised as both actors in and subjects to European policy making. They use city networks to share their knowledge and to be able to represent their interests with a united voice in the ...

Beer Sheva is a city in the Negev desert, which was planned to be a living and leisure area, to make the desert bloom (Wiley, 2008) The immigrating settlers from Europe, the middle East and Russia, pushed the Bedouins, who ...

This thesis studies the influence of urban gardening initiatives in Detroit on the lives of its participants and the neighborhoods that it takes place in. It does so by comparing different urban reinvention initiatives ...

While over the last decade planning for climate change adaption has gained more attention in the Netherlands, climate change adaptation remains predominantly a water issue. Apart from some frontrunner cities, most ...

Introduction Land subsidence is an underrated problem which is causing worldwide devastating effects in urban areas. Large parts of the Randstad are occupied by peat land which cause land subsidence. Being such an important ...

Rural-to-urban migration is a common-known feature of the South African „socioscape‟. Mainly as a result of the deagrarianization of the countryside and the (perceived) greater chances on the urban job market, many young, ...

The recent completion of the Verkehrsprojekt Deutsche Einheit nr. 8 has enabled the High-Speed Train (HST) to travel between Berlin and München in under four hours. This development has revived the public debate on the ...

Het werkstuk gaat over de ervaringen van de Ursulinen van de Romeinse Unie in Indonesië tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog en in hoeverre zij hun missie in deze tijd nog konden voortzetten.