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How King’s Day Stimulates Our Sense of Home
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...
Apr 8
A hole in the "market" (read: TOPOS timeline)
Dear readers, Some of you have noticed that the TOPOS website was offline between mid-December and the end of January. The reason for...
Feb 25
Future music
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...
Feb 6
The Netherlands as an indigenous practice
Column by Pim Buijs When thinking about indigenous practices, the image that pops into my mind is that of native tribes tending their...
May 14, 2024
Hedgerows: old treasures for a richer future
Column by Erik Mies The history of the hedgerows in the Netherlands spans centuries, with these features of the landscape telling a long...
Apr 23, 2024
The contrast between government and citizen
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...
Dec 19, 2023
The knip in the Weesperstraat: grand, premature and brash
Column by Tobias Arends The knip in the Weesperstraat in Amsterdam was an initiative of the municipality with the aim of making the city...
Sep 26, 2023
Invisible pressure: the stuffed subsurface
Column by Pim Buijs There are a lot of crises currently in the Netherlands: the housing crisis, the nitrogen crisis en refugee crisis are...
Sep 12, 2023
Revival of the Wageningse Berg
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...
Jun 13, 2023
Join the repair wave
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...
May 9, 2023
Hei brennt de lamp ('the lamp burns here')
Column by Wim Bosschaart Several Dutch cities are experiencing a revival, often to transform from former industrial cities into...
Apr 25, 2023
Razende Reporters – A Long Winter
Column by David de Boer. Since this year, Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning students report from a broad scope of places where...
Apr 12, 2018
Razende Reporters – Narva, a city on the edge
Column by Tim den Duijf. Since this year, Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning students report from a broad scope of places where...
Mar 6, 2018
Razende Reporters – The City of Steel
Column by Gerben Hartgerink. Since this year, Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning students will report from a broad scope of...
Dec 4, 2017
The Tragedy and Beauty of Being a Landscape Interventionist
Column by Maarten Jacobs. The idea that public trust in science and scientists in decreasing is frequently propagated in the media. Well,...
May 24, 2017
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