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This book is designed to be of interest to many different audiences due to its cross-sectoral and transdisciplinary content. It will appeal to those within architectural higher education as well as to spatial practitioners, students, civic and governmental organizations engaged in socio-spatial projects. The book is (1) an academic source of critical and practice-driven knowledge on experiential architectural design learning, (2) provides methods for other ways of learning in the form of design-build and live projects and (3) offers design inspiration for community-engaged spatial practices relevant to both educators and practising architects and designers.
Wat is er mis met het klimaat? Waarom trekken de wetenschapsmensen samen aan de alarmbel? Heeft het zin dat ik zelf de klimaatverandering probeer te verhelpen? Hoe kan ik anderen ervan overtuigen dat het de hoogste tijd is om de handen in elkaar te slaan? Dit boek maakt in kort bestek duidelijk wat er gaande is, waarom er nu moet worden gehandeld en hoe dat moet. Het biedt essentiële informatie en relevante gespreksstof voor iedereen die meer wil weten over de klimaatproblematiek. Meteen vormt het voor de enen direct discussiemateriaal en is het voor alle anderen een introductie in het klimaatthema. Op www.vub.be/klimaatlesmarathon staan presentaties die als basisinformatie kunnen fungeren.
De sociale huisvesting in Vlaanderen draagt bij aan de verwezenlijking van het grondrecht op wonen voor de zwakste huishoudens. Sociale woonactoren verhuren kwaliteitsvolle en betaalbare woningen aan een afgelijnde doelgroep. Tegelijk is het aanbod sociale huurwoningen sterk ontoereikend, wat resulteert in aanzienlijke wachtlijsten. Daardoor kan het grondrecht op wonen van de huishoudens die (nog) geen toegang tot de sociale huur hebben, in het gedrang komen. Het sociale woonaanbod moet dus dringend omhoog, maar de financiering van sociale huisvestingsmaatschappijen staat onder druk. Tegelijk wijzigen de uitgangspunten van het sociale huurstelsel: de doelgroep wordt via de tijdelijke huurove...
Hoe zien we een betere leefomgeving en vooral hoe werken we eraan? Rik Houthaeve vroeg het onomwonden aan enkele studenten aan wie hij de afgelopen jaren lesgaf aan de KU Leuven. De studenten in de opleiding ruimtelijke planning en stedenbouw worden immers danig uitgedaagd om te leren een duurzame en kwaliteitsvolle leefomgeving te ontwikkelen. Ja, antwoordde Marie, hoe zien we de toekomst en wat kunnen wij eraan doen? Dat is haast een onmogelijke vraag om te beantwoorden, maar één die mij wel aan het dromen brengt. Ik kan haast van een totaal andere stad dromen. Een stad met meer groen en water, goed om te wonen voor iedereen, voorzieningen op wandel- en fietsafstand en vooral meer toegan...
The Parisian magistrate Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) was a major figure in the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598) and their immediate aftermath. Best known for his magisterial History of his own times (covering 1546-1607), and his complementary Memoirs (covering 1553-1601), de Thou was a key political negotiator, a famous book-collector and an influential patron to scholars and writers, as well as a respected poet in his own right and a prolific correspondent. This is the first monograph on de Thou since Samuel Kinser's bibliographical study of 1966. In the course of five chapters, thematically arranged between a substantial introduction and a dramatic conclusion, Ingrid De Smet meticulously unpicks de Thou's strategies of self-fashioning and career enhancement as well as the conditions that led to his fall from grace. In doing so, this monograph not only rehabilitates de Thou as a creative (neo-Latin) writer of international allure, it also uncovers and contextualizes the complexities of de Thou's life, writings, and thought.
Challenges of sustainability and transition need innovative tools for the understanding, mapping, designing and governing of manmade sites and territories. Complementary to standard land use categories, such as housing and agriculture, this book of essays introduces eleven ‘interface categories’, labels for land use interactions, transitions, mixes, and spatial and temporal positions in between. Authors from different disciplines describe and illustrate how this set of interfaces resonates with their own projects, challenges and agendas, and how it sheds light on new land use agents, on unregistered forms of land occupation, and on opportunities for socio-economic and ecosystem services. The concept of interfaces encourages the development of adapted modes of planning and management for urban, rural or natural environments, and on different spatial scales.
This ambitious multidisciplinary volume assembles diverse critical-theory approaches to the current and future states of networked learning. Expert contributors expand upon the existing literature by analyzing the ethical aspects of networked learning and the ongoing need for more open, inclusive, and socially engaged educational practice. Chapters explore in depth evolving concepts of real and virtual, the processes of learning in, against, and beyond the internet, and the role of critical pedagogy in improving social conditions. In all, coverage is both realistic and positive about the potential of digital technologies in higher education as well as social and academic challenges on the ho...
These biographies of Canadians are arranged chronologically by date of death. Entries in each volume are listed alphabetically, with bibliographies of source material and an index to names.
The story of COVID-19 now seems so familiar: from the first reported case of a new respiratory infection in China in December 2019, to a pandemic that rapidly changed the world. Respiratory clinicians and scientists were at the forefront of delivering healthcare for people with COVID-19, leading efforts to understand this novel virus and disease, and developing and testing strategies to better prevent and treat it. These endeavours extended not only to the acute illness, but also to understanding the longer-term consequences. The pace of knowledge acquisition was rapid but is now maturing. This Monograph therefore provides a timely and valuable state-of-the-art summary for clinicians and scientists on our understanding of this virus and its consequences to date. It is essential reading for all those involved in the care of people who are or who have been affected by COVID-19.