Column by Jol Abels The apartment we slept in was right in the city center, and when I looked out from the kitchen window over the courtyard, I recognized it immediately. The peeling walls barely three meters away, the poorly maintained window frames, and instead of seeing the ground, I saw the roofs of the lower floors. It felt as if I were looking out again from my old student room further down the road in Antwerp, where I had stared at the bare walls outside for an entire

Column by Pim Buijs Figure 1: The Moreelsebrug (Source: Jannes Linders in Cepezed, n.d.) When I work at the city office in Utrecht, I...

Column by Jol Abels On King's Day, the Dutch take over public space en masse. What started as a royal tradition grew into a folk festival...

Dear readers, Some of you have noticed that the TOPOS website was offline between mid-December and the end of January. The reason for...

Column by Pim Buijs As I write this column, we are approaching 2025. The end of the year is a time for reflection, but also for looking...

Column by Pim Buijs When thinking about indigenous practices, the image that pops into my mind is that of native tribes tending their...

Column by Erik Mies The history of the hedgerows in the Netherlands spans centuries, with these features of the landscape telling a long...

Column by Pim Buijs As I am writing this, the elections for the national government are in full swing. Election time is always a time...

Column by Tobias Arends The knip in the Weesperstraat in Amsterdam was an initiative of the municipality with the aim of making the city...

Column by Pim Buijs There are a lot of crises currently in the Netherlands: the housing crisis, the nitrogen crisis en refugee crisis are...

Column by Jens den Boer Like a castle on the hill, at the summit of the Wageningse Berg lies a football stadium fittingly nicknamed the...

Column by Pim Buijs A tumultuous time has come for the spatial domain; there is a nitrogen crisis, a housing crisis, an energy crisis, a...

Column by Wim Bosschaart Several Dutch cities are experiencing a revival, often to transform from former industrial cities into...

Column by David de Boer. Since this year, Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning students report from a broad scope of places where...

Column by Tim den Duijf. Since this year, Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning students report from a broad scope of places where...

Column by Gerben Hartgerink. Since this year, Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning students will report from a broad scope of...

Column by Maarten Jacobs. The idea that public trust in science and scientists in decreasing is frequently propagated in the media. Well,...