74 research outputs found
Creating value for citizens through citizen participation in urban regeneration: A case study on the value created for citizens through citizen participation during the regeneration of the Lodewijk van Deysselbuurt in Amsterdam
No full textThe use of citizen participation in urban regeneration projects in Western European cities is increasing. Particularly in Amsterdam, participation with regards to regeneration projects is stimulated by the city government. Although the literature shows that not all such participatory processes are of value to citizens, there is a lack of research on how value can be created for those participating through the process of citizen participation. This thesis aims to (1) develop a theoretical understanding of the values that can be created for citizens through citizen participation, and (2) identify whether and how these values of participation are created for citizens in a real-life case of citizen participation in urban regeneration in Amsterdam. Through a review of urban planning literature, four values that can be created for citizens through citizen participation are found, namely: “power and empowerment”, “social cohesion and inclusion”, “social justice and equity”, and “democratic citizenship and skills”. To explore the importance of these values for citizens at the individual level, they are studied through the lens of the basic personal values as defined by social psychologist Schwartz (2012).Using case study research on the participatory process during the regeneration of the Lodewijk van Deysselbuurt in Amsterdam Nieuw-West, it is explored whether and how the values found in urban planning literature were created for residents. Since 2016 the Municipality of Amsterdam and housing association Rochdale have involved residents of the Lodewijk van Deysselbuurt in the making of regeneration plans for their neighborhood. Up until now (2022), this participatory process consisted of activities with different participants, and levels of participation ranging from informing, to consulting residents, to letting residents give advice on the plans. Furthermore, residents were involved through a neighborhood platform that looked at the regeneration plans at the neighborhood level and through residents’ committees that discussed the plans for each housing block. The findings of the case study suggest that through this participatory process the values of “social inclusion and cohesion” and “democratic citizenship and skills” were created for residents that participated. However, based on the results it is also suggested there was limited creation of the value of “power and empowerment” and that further research is necessary to explore whether the value of “social justice and inclusion” was created for residents of the Lodewijk van Deysselbuurt.Metropolitan Analysis, Design and Engineering (MADE
Beeldenstorm hoort bij Nederlandse geschiedenis
No full textInterview naar aanleiding van de herdenking van de 450ste verjaardag van de Beeldenstorm uit 1566.status: Publishe
Bandwidth coverage of niobium based superconducting tunnel devices
No full textThe Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an astronomical observatory that is being built on a 5000 m altitude plateau in Chile to perform heterodyne measurements in the frequency range of 30 to 950 GHz. These measurements will reveal the presence of characteristic molecules that tell us more about the evolution of the early universe and the formation of stars and planetary systems. Because of the limited atmospherical transmission of radiation at these frequencies, ALMA is divided into 10 frequency bands with a sufficiently high transmission. This thesis describes the research that has been done to develop superconductor - insulator - superconductor (SIS) tunneljunctions as detectors for Band 9 of ALMA (602 - 720 GHz). To realize these devices, a tuning circuit has been developed that optimizes the coupling of electromagnetic radiation from the antenna to the SIS junction. Further, a new method has been developed to create SIS junctions with aluminum nitride (AlN) as the insulating material. This method uses a remote plasma from an inductively coupled plasma source. Junctions that have been grown with this new method show a much better uniformity in transmissivity of the tunneling barrier at high critical current densities. Using the new method, SIS devices with AlN tunnel barriers have been developed that have a record low noise temperature over the full bandwidth of Band 9.Applied Science
"Ever had an extraterrestrial experience?" ; interview with first Dutch-born astronaut Lodewijk van den Berg
No full textAerospace Engineerin
Medical and Care Compunetics 6
No full textThis volume contains the proceedings of the seventh annual Event of the International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics (ICMCC), which will be held in London, UK, from 8-11 June 2010. ICMCC is an international foundation which acts as the knowledge centre for medical and care compunetics, i.e. for the field of social, societal and ethical implications of computing and networking in health. Contrary to conferences addressing technology, dedicated scientific domains or specialized professionals, ICMCC follows a multidisciplinary approach by nature. Therefore, it is addressing all entities involved in health issues such as health professionals, politicians, supporting specialist, administrators, researchers and developers, but first of all the subject of care – the patient or the citizens before becoming a patient. In this bridging and embracing functionality, ICMCC is unique in the global scene.
The theme of the 2010 annual event is “Personal Health – Intelligent solutions to serve empowered patients”. The seventh ICMCC annual event addresses the active participation of the citizen in his or her health and care pathway with the interactive use of Information and Communication Technologies, or in other words Patient 2.0 Empowerment as defined by ICMCC in 2008. The 2010 Event intents to combine ontology-driven health information system design for advanced interoperability with the paradigm change towards pervasive person-centric care including prevention, home care and wellness, together forming adaptive distributed health information systems solutions. Important issues to be considered are virtual Electronic Health Records and Personal Health Records acting as semantically interoperable communication and cooperation platform for personalized ubiquitous health services in a trustworthy environment.
The scientific topics presented in the proceedings comprise System Design and Evaluation, Computer-Assisted Learning, Knowledge Representation and Ontologies, Electronic Health Records and Patient Empowerment. 81 researchers, residing in 17 different countries from Europe, North and South America, and Asia, have reported their results in this volume (double author entries have not been eliminated). A comprehensive overview and in-depth, first hand information on new developments, advanced systems, technologies and applications will be introduced to an international audience.
The ICMCC has been supported by the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI), notably by the EFMI Working Groups “Electronic Health Records”, “Security, Safety and Ethics” and “Personal Portable Devices”.
The editors would like to thank the scientific board for their assistance, all the authors for their excellent work as well as the reviewers for lending their expertise to the conference, and last but not least the local organizers, thereby contributing to the final achievements.
Lodewijk Bos (Event Chair)
Bernd Blobel (Scientific Chair
Panorama Paquetá: Sense of place for a vulnerable island community
No full textThe current take-make-dispose economy, resulting in resource pressure and environmental problems, calls for circular economics. Islands are perfect living laboratories, because of their clearly defined boundaries and vulnerability to external factors. In this graduation Project, Ilha de Paquetá in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is taken as a case study. It suffers from the external pollution of the Guanabara Bay in both ecological and economic terms (due to a tourism decline), but the island’s metabolism itself is as linear as the system that causes the bay pollution. For successful implementation of circular interventions, a system-level perspective, based on a Material Flow Analysis for energy, water and materials, is combined with a hyper-local and pragmatic approach to get a real ‘sense of place’. The result is, firstly, a long-term strategy for Paquetá to improve the environmental state of the island. And, secondly, an architectural design for a beach pool that forms an alternative for the polluted beaches to enhance tourism. The pool regenerates and utilizes polluted bay water, purified via the wetlands that are integrated part of the design. The impact of the building on the island’s metabolism lies in the integration of a biodigester to reduce the organic waste outflow, and value to the local society and culture is added with adjacent spaces that accommodate room for community events and small-scale, conscious tourism. This way, the project shows how the Circular Economy system-level perspective can be combined with a hyper-local and pragmatic approach to achieve social inclusion.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
Soil-grout interface friction for HDD installed heat transport pipes
No full textThe soil-grout interface friction was measured to be in between 0.0 [kPa] and 14 [kPa]. To measure this friction, a special research method was invented that enabled a tunnel to be recreated. With this setup, any formation could be used. The formation could be created with a hole in the middle which simulated a borehole. Next, by filling and pressurising this hole with a bentonite-water suspension, a stable borehole could be simulated. This borehole was then filled with drillgrout to recreate a tunnel filled with grout. This grout column could then be pulled out of the soil formation so that the friction between the drillgrout and soil could be measured. In this setup, no normal forces were present. Due to the absence of normal forces no friction angle could be deducted which made it impossible to estimate the effect of the friction at the depth where a pipe laid by HDD would generally be found. It was concluded that based on the data found, it is not recommended to use grout as a borehole filling around heat transportation pipes. Although the friction would be mainly determined by the filter cake strength, which is comparable to a weak clay, effects like irregular borehole diameters and large soil stresses at the depth of the pipe, would create a frictional force that is large enough to cause buckling or failure of the insulating PUR layer.Applied Earth Science
Designing an ecosystem to transform the lease car to a shared modality
No full textWith a fleet of 1,9 million vehicles, LeasePlan is the largest player on the lease and fleet management market in the Netherlands as well as worldwide (LeasePlan, 2021). They believe in their Car-as-a-Service strategy that unburdens users with the hassle that comes with the ownership of a car. The fleet of cars and light commercial vehicles is allocated for 73% at corporate client (companies with a fleet >25 vehicles). There is continuous movement in this market segment due to developments such as mobility budgets and total mobility solutions. During the last years, there was much talk around these subjects. However, it was mostly talking without concrete action leading to change. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was felt around the world. The restrictions to our daily lives to contain the virus had far-reaching consequences on how we moved around the last 1,5 years. The number of kilometres driven for business purposes decreased in 2020 by 26% in comparison to the year before (NZMO, 2021). With the lease cars sitting on the driveways, companies were looking to update their mobility policy to facilitate the ‘new normal’ after the pandemic. In the first part of this report, the mobility trends, market movement towards total mobility solutions, LeasePlan and the changing mobility needs of the employer and employee are analysed. The call to create more sustainable and flexible corporate mobility solutions were present in the different analyses. The market is rapidly moving in the direction where the employee chooses between different modalities to travel the needed business kilometres. The direct competitors of LeasePlan are working on total mobility solutions that, next to the traditional lease car, include shared car services, public transport and e-bikes. LeasePlan is currently moving in the same direction with the development of a total mobility solution. The employees are divided in their view towards the lease car. There is a growing group that is actively avoiding the lease car choosing for a cash option even though they are eligible for a lease car. They do not want the rigidity of a four-year contract. The counterpart is the group that uses the lease car for personal mobility needs. When the lease car was stationary for corporate kilometres during COVID-19, it was still regularly being used to drive privately. Using the current strengths of LeasePlan and the insights from the analyses, an ecosystem was designed to transform the lease car into a shared modality. SharedLease is a new proposition that LeasePlan integrates within their future total mobility solution. The new proposition allows colleagues without a lease car to make business kilometres in an appropriate car. The lease car drivers will receive credits when they make the car available to their colleagues. With these credits, they can purchase a vacation car. Solving one of the main reasons employees do not want an electric lease car is range anxiety (Crothers, 2020). In this report, SharedLease is elaborated and the horizon before and after is presented. SharedLease allows LeasePlan to venture towards shared car services while staying within their current Car-as-a-Service strategy. Meanwhile, the changing mobility needs due to the ‘new normal’ after the COVID-19 pandemic are met, giving the employee the needed flexibility
Effect of movement on the settlement of fluid mud: None
No full textThis thesis describes the research about the effect of movement on fluid mud. This was done by exposing several samples of fluid mud from the port of Hamburg to different types of movement for an extended amount of time. It was found that when fluid mud is exposed to kinetic energy of the type used in this experiment, particles will arrange themselves. Dense material and larger particles can be found lower than less dense material and smaller particles. The amount of kinetic energy has no effect on the settling velocity once fluid mud settles. In this research energy level 6 created waves with a frequency of about 3 to 4 waves per second with an amplitude of 1.5 cm. This is the least amount of kinetic energy needed to keep the fluid mud homogenised. A lower density fluid mud will settle faster than a higher density fluid mud. It is not yet clear if this is caused by the density, or that the relation of the difference in density and settling velocity is coincidental
Reassess of the transition zones: Providing places in the Lodewijk van Deysselbuurt that enable the residents to appropriate, modify and participate in their built environment
No full textThis graduation arises from the urgent need to revitalize a problematic post-war neighbourhood in Amsterdam-West. There is a lack of places for residents to connect with each other and with their built environment. The zones between the private and public domain, the transition zones of the ‘General Expansion Plan’ aren’t enabling or encouraging residents to appropriate, modify or participate in them. This graduation focusses on finding out what conditions enable the use of and give quality to the transition zones and will be the starting point for revitalizing a neighbourhood. The design question was: ‘How could the design of new transitional zones between the private and public domain of the infill, support and tissue level, enable and encourage appropriation, modification and participation in the Lodewijk van Deysselbuurt, in order to improve the solidarity between current and new residents and their attachment with the built environment?’ The research was oriented towards Open Building projects. The focus was on the participation of residents on various levels of the design process and the measures that are integrated to enable residents to change parts of the building to their preferences and also the process of enabling this and processing it up till today. How were the residents involved in the design process and after the completion? Did the residents make use of this possibility to change? And how was this managed? The research question was: ‘How is the Open Building concept over time enabling and encouraging residents to appropriate, modify and participate in the transition zones of the support and tissue level?’ The result of the research paper together with a project site analyses created conditions for the design phase. The relation between research and design can be found in the physical and non-physical elaboration of the project. The outcome of the research created both physical and non-physical conditions to use in future Open Building projects, of which this project is one. The translation was done by relating it to the specific site. The conditions for transition zones of future Open Building projects are: 1. Create predestined transition zones with pre-designed frameworks that are subject to policy. 2. Early involvement and participation on multiple levels will clarify ones responsibilities and possibilities within that framework. 3. Communication between owners, users and committees lead to a shared valuation and affinity of collectiveness. This will result in a balance between privacy and interaction that origins from the users themselves. My role as an architect was to create a framework with boundaries and regulations in which users can participate, appropriate and modify. A framework is, a space or zone, in which regulations, rules for certain actors and factors apply. At the same time it is important to give freedom to the users, but also create a coherency for the building and its community. Four different zones can be distinguished: the collective, circulation, entrance and outdoor spaces. These spaces are housed in a basic wooden construction. To visualize the responsibilities and possibilities of the various actors related to the various phases of a project, from the pre-design up to the future, a scheme was created.One million homesArchitecture, Urbanism and Building Science
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