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EU Territorial Impact Assessment: Under what Conditions?: Final report
No full textReport Commissioned by the Ministry of VROM. Since the start of the making of the ESDP, back in 1989, there has been interest in a ‘Territorial impact assessment’. This interest has been revamped now that the Territorial Cohesion green paper is out. Yet, at the EU level there is still little guidance on how a TIA might be done and on what it actually is or could be. This report aims to ask and answer a set of fundamental questions that need to be addressed before engaging into developing an EU TIA instrument. We start with an historic overview discussing early initiatives and pleas to carry out territorial impact assessment at the European level. We continue by addressing the question what can understood under the heading of territorial impact. The next section focuses on territorial impact assessment in a multilevel context. Section 5 addresses the EU’s impact assessment procedure in detail. Section 6 switches to the level of discussion by particularly raising the question how impact assessment could be carried out in a way that territorial issues come to the fore. Section 7 rounds off with conclusions.Urban and Regional DevelopmentOTB Research Institut
Dühr, Stefanie; Colomb, Claire; Nadin, Vincent (2010): European Spatial Planning and Territorial Cooperation
No full textBas-Relief Modeling from Normal Layers
No full textBas-relief is characterized by its unique presentation of intrinsic shape properties and/or detailed appearance using materials raised up in different degrees above a background. However, many bas-relief modeling methods could not manipulate scene details well. We propose a simple and effective solution for two kinds of bas-relief modeling (i.e., structure-preserving and detail-preserving), which is different from the prior tone mapping alike methods. Our idea originates from an observation on typical 3D models which are decomposed into a piecewise smooth base layer and a detail layer in normal field. Proper manipulation of the two layers contributes to both structure-preserving and detail-preserving bas-relief modeling. We solve the modeling problem in a discrete geometry processing setup that uses normal-based mesh processing as a theoretical foundation. Specifically, using the two-step mesh smoothing mechanism as a bridge, we transfer the bas-relief modeling problem into a discrete space, and solve it in a least-squares manner. Experiments and comparisons to other methods show that (i) geometry details are better preserved in the scenario with high compression ratios, and (ii) structures are clearly preserved without shape distortion and interference from details.Accepted author manuscriptMaterials and Manufacturin
Dühr, Stefanie; Colomb, Claire; Nadin, Vincent (2010): European Spatial Planning and Territorial Cooperation
No full textClosing the Gap: Territorial Cohesion through Polycentric Development
Get PDFThis article discusses and analyses national polycentric development policies aiming at cohesion. Due to its insertion in the 1999 European Spatial Development Perspective ‘polycentricity’ has become an important concept in discussions on Europe’s territorial and economic development. Its content remains however rather unclear. This paper contributes to the discussion on the meaning of polycentricity by looking at national polycentric development policies. These policies can be distinguished according to two types of disparities, or gaps, which they try to bridge. The first concerns the gap between different levels of the national urban hierarchy, the most common being the gap between a primate capital city and the next category of cities. The second gap is the one between cities located in regions with diverging rates of socio-economic development. On the basis of a conceptual and quantitative discussion of these gaps a basic definition is presented of what polycentric development policies are about: policies that address the distribution of economic and/or economically relevant functions over the urban system in such a way that the urban hierarchy is flattened in a territorially balanced way. A discussion of the polycentric development policies of France, Poland and Germany illustrates our findings. The article concludes that for the period 2007-2013 – the new EU budget period – a clear synergy is needed between EU and national policies and that without such synergy policies cannot be effective.Urban and Regional DevelopmentOTB Research Institut
FM Transceiver for Wireless Communication: Audio and Intermediate Frequency Amplifiers
No full textIn this bachelor thesis the design process of the audio and intermediate frequency amplifiers for a wireless FM tranceiver is documented and explained. The project was done using only descrete components for educational purposes.2019 Ivor Bas, Victor hoedemakerElectrical Engineerin
Inventory for a Reverse Journey. Photographic Image and Found Object - An investigation of travel and material transformation as a paradigm of artist's practice: Ed Ruscha, Douglas Huebler, Bas jan Ader, Jimmie Durham, Gustav Metzger, Kurt Schwitters & Cian Quayle.
Get PDFInventory for Reverse Journey is the title of a collection of photographic artefacts and found objects, which I have collected over the last twenty years. The title refers to one specific type of artist's journey, which is applicable to the `chronotope' of my archive, as a `metaphorical journey in space and time' (Bakhtin 1981, p. 81). The `city',`provincial town', `road', `threshold' and `interior' are recurrent motifs, which Bakhtin fused together to describe the historical evolution of the novel in relation to its different genres. Bakhtin's motifs are expanded as the basis of an evolutionary nomenclature of the artist's-journey, as a form of spatial mapping and identity formation. Alongside other sources from literature (Alain Robbe-Grillet), cinema (Michelangelo Antonioni), psychoanalysis (Kierkegaard) and critical theory (Walter Benjamin) I have developed a theoretical framework, which initially originated in an empirical process, that is reflected in the antecedents of this project. The research process, as a journey itself, has concretised this approach within a systems-based practice. This is mirrored in the work of the artists under investigation, as their differences and similarities are highlighted within a broad contextual analysis. Accordingly the tone of the writing shifts its register at different points in the thesis.
My journey is just one example of several paradigmatic formations of `travel' as a strategy, which investigates the work of six different artists, as a voluntary or involuntary form of exile. A deskilled use of the photographic image is examined in the work of Ed Ruscha, Douglas Huebler and Bas jan Ader in the spatial mapping of their chosen locations. The work of these artists manifests travel, as a strategy, in a benign form of regional and expatriate exile. The investigation shifts its focus from the New World to Europe, where the work of Jimmie Durham, Gustav Metzger and Kurt Schwitters is analysed in relation to their transformation of found objects and materials, and their relationship with a former 'home'. Their position registers different degrees of the `impossibility of return' to a point of origin, which exists in the mind rather than as a physical location. The transience of their work, and use of disparate materials, is counterbalanced by their physical presence in the work. Conversely Ader, Huebler and Ruscha are linked by a scale of decreasing visibility, as they are sublimated within their work in the formation of, what is now construed as, a unique photographic presence. The starting point for which is a return to the formative years of conceptualism in the 1960's, which set the scene for Durham and Metzger from the 1970's onwards. The spectre of Schwitters practice of forming (Formung) and unforming (Entformung) is significant for my analysis of the dematerialisation of the art-work and artist, by processes of series and repetition, distance and proximity, movement and stasis. Although `travel' is a ubiquitous term, I continue to use it as a portmanteau, which carries with it the themes and `salient' features of a typology of artist's journeys. In a moment of perceived obsolescence as digital information systems engender a culture of `selective-amnesia', these thoughts have informed my work, which runs parallel to the artist case-studies, and the material transformation of the photographic image and found object
Evaluating the strategic capacity of collaborative spatial planning initiatives by the performance of its process, output and outcomes: The case of the southern Randstad Holland
No full textSpatial planning practices are constantly evolving to be more effective in a dynamic context. In the face of the latest developments, the practice of collaborative spatial planning through the formation of regional collaborations has emerged as the contemporary solution. The practice of working with a multitude of public actors that cooperate to formulate spatial strategies for issues that transcend their own planning capacity is relatively new and the ideal structure, organization and scope are yet unclear. The ability to of a region to successfully develop joint strategies is referred to as a region’s strategic capacity. As a means for comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of such collaboration projects an evaluation framework is proposed to assess a region’s strategic capacity. To this end, the paper further elaborates the concept of strategic capacity. And furthermore it develops an evaluation framework specifically designed for the evaluation of regional collaborations and the strategic capacity generated. It is shown that this framework has a high potential for meaningful evaluation of regional planning collaboration projects.Architecture and The Built Environmen
Retour d\u92expériences après la tempête Xynthia en France, leçons pour les Pays Bas; les dégâts suite à l\u92inondation
No full textLe 28 février 2010, vers 2 heures du matin, la tempête Xynthia atteint la côte occidentale de la France. A plusieurs endroits, les digues, dunes et d\u92autres ouvrages cédèrent, donnant lieu à des inondations du littoral. Plus de 50.000 hectares de terres furent inondées. Au total, la France compta 47 morts suite à la tempête, la plupart d\u92entre eux suite à la crue. Essentiellement les régions de la Vendée et de la Charente-Maritime endurèrent de terribles privations. Les dégâts et les victimes ne sont pas uniquement la conséquence du phénomène naturel, mais également des interventions de l\u92homme ou le manque de celles-ci. Les Pays-Bas pourraient tirer des leçons de ces inondations côtières françaises. Les circonstances aux Pays-Bas et en France sont, dans une grande mesure, comparables. La France, elle aussi, connaît des zones côtières à basse altitude sensibles aux inondations. Certes, le niveau de protection aux Pays-Bas est plus élevé, mais une inondation aux Pays-Bas est aussi bien concevable. Tout comme en France, une inondation du littoral néerlandais est causée par une combinaison de la marée, d\u92une tempête et d\u92une surcote. Les législations et les réglementations présentent des concordances ; leurs bases datent de l\u92époque de Napoléon. Ce livre décrit l\u92inondation par la tempête Xynthia et ses conséquences. Nous en tirons des leçons et nous formulons des avis pour les Pays-Bas. Nous cherchons à nous associer à une protection contre l\u92inondation à trois volets: la prévention, l\u92aménagement du territoire et la maîtrise des catastrophes
Het papieren Parkbos: tussen geïntegreerd denken en sectoraal doen
No full textsponsorship: research project 'SP2SP' (from Spatial Planning to Strategic Projects) funded by IWT, and Prospective Research for Brussels of the IWOIBstatus: Publishe
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