The Netherlands has a strong design tradition in planning for the built environment. After a
period of neglect, attention for the role of design studios has resurged, particularly for …

Urbanized sandy shores around the world suffer from coastal erosion due to a lack of
sediment input and sea level rise. These dynamics place new demands on coastal spatial …

Following the culverting of rivers and the implementation of flood control infrastructure on
riverbeds, people's perceptions regarding the ecological dynamics of rivers, as well as …

Abstract 'Delta Urbanism'is a common field of interest of different disciplines, which
discovered the need to work together in order to be able to develop fruitful strategies for the …

Faced with the highly overlapping factors of the external disturbances--natural disasters
caused by extreme climate change, and internal interactions--the contradiction between …

Sea level rise (SLR) is a serious consequence of climate change. SLR can cause severe
impacts which endanger landscape qualities. Yet, few landscape architecture studies focus …

This chapter seeks to show how the development of the spatial structure of the Randstad
can be regarded as the outcome of three processes: the dynamics of the landscape; the …

The Randstad metropolitan region encompassing Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and
Utrecht in the western Netherlands is regarded worldwide as a model of a …