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Quito blog 2: The mobility challenges of an Andean city
_ARTICLE_ by Abel Coenen With almost 2 million inhabitants Quito is a big city. Its dense historical centre proves to be the perfect location for a tourist visit. Many people move around through the city by car or taxi but, as Dutch as I am, I’d rather go for a walk. When one day I almost got run over by a car I realized that the culture of car driving is rather special here.
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Farming the sun
_GRADUATION WORK_ by Fan Yang The involvement of the landscape architect is needed in the process of renewable energy transition in order to achieve a sustainable development. The spatial arrangement of these new technologies is a relatively new subject to landscape architects. It is important to study how to make new technologies fit into the landscapes by designing. Solar Photovoltaic is one of these new technologies. In this thesis, the design strategy and principles of fitting solar parks into the landscape are studied.
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More attention to spatial qualities in M.E.R.’s
The council of state counsellors plead for more attention for the development of spatial qualities in environmental impact assesments. Especially now society becomes more articulate when it comes down to spatial problems. In the advice, given by the state counsellor of Landscape and Water Eric Luiten, attention is being asked for alternatives which do not […]
