Tag: sustainability
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Groei en krimp in China
Gelezen in China City Planning Review nr 4 2016: Mao Qizhi, Long Ying en Wu Kang onderzochten de recente veranderingen die optraden in de dichtheid van de bevolking in China aan de hand van twee bevolkingstellingen, die van 2000 en 2010. Ze publiceerden er onlangs over in China City Planning Review. In ‘Spatio-Temporal Changes…
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Car-free Amsterdam
Read in Climate Home of 23 June 2016: Amsterdam is struggling with its crowdedness and popularity, people think the city centre is too busy. Of course they are right. They were never used to live in an urban condition. Politicians try to reduce tourism now, distribute activities, the mayor even proposes to move people to…
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Unsustainable Urban Delta
Read in Het Parool of 15 April 2016: Last week they forced me to move to another lecture hall at the University of Amsterdam. They told me the Dutch prime-minister Mr. Rutte was expected to come. He would give a lecture on ‘How the Netherlands is functioning’, and he needed my room. So I…
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Flanders 2055
Read in Het Parool of 3 October 2015: He was the last speaker at the conference last week, in the House of Lords (Eerste Kamer) in The Hague, just after me. The journalist who interviewed him was in the audience. Jonathan Holslag (1981) is professor at the Free University of Brussels, he’s an expert in…