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1 september 2026

Integrated Infrastructure Design Guide

Infrastructure forms the backbone of our society – from roads and railways to waterworks and ports – as critical part of vital systems for mobility, water and space. But that backbone is under strain. Ageing systems, climate change and scarce resources force us to rethink fundamentally how we design, use and value infrastructure. This Design Guide starts with one urgent question: how can we make infrastructure future-proof in a world of uncertainty? It introduces integrated approaches in which design, engineering, policy and societal value come together through a wide range of inspiring examples related to urban and regional accessibility and development, spatial quality, flood protection, and ecological restoration. The book demonstrates how infrastructure can be more than merely a functional system. It becomes a driver of societal value and prosperity, and a strategic instrument that connects quality of life, sustainability and economic development. This Design Guide offers a clear conceptual framework to understand and design infrastructure that is not only more efficient, but also more sustainable, inclusive and meaningful. Drawn from thematical insights and lessons, and applicable methods, techniques and strategies by a broad range of scientists and professionals of practice with a background architecture, urban development and design, landscape architecture, civil engineering, economics, governance or policy. A substantial and indispensable guide for designers, engineers and policymakers committed to shaping the infrastructure and the society of tomorrow.

Open (Access) Tekst Boek

Hans de Boer, Mark Voorendt, Maurice Harteveld, John Baggen

2020

MOOC on Open Spatial Data Infrastructure

Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) have evolved from government-driven initiatives for data sharing among public authorities to important building blocks in the implantation of open data policies oriented towards users outside the public sector. With governments becoming more open and transparent, SDIs have also become more open so that also nongovernment data and actors are considered as a key to the performance of the infrastructure. This MOOC introduces participants to this holistic, multidisciplinary view on SDI in a series of 5 modules, each covering a different aspect of Open SDI and consisting of short video lectures, readings, assignments and quizzes for self-evaluation.

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Bastiaan van Loenen

2020

Development of new active teaching practices in Spatial Data Infrastructure

This report provides a set of newly developed active teaching practices on new topics related to Open SDI. These practices apply the methodologies on active teaching and learning on Open SDI that were developed in the SPIDER project.

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Bastiaan van Loenen, Frederika Welle Donker

2020

Showcase of Existing Active Teaching Practices

This report presents showcases of active teaching and learning in spatial data infrastructure education in the SPIDER partner universities. It includes detailed descriptions of the practices that have been implemented, as well as the results of the evaluation of the practices from an active teaching-learning perspective.

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Bastiaan van Loenen, Frederika Welle Donker, Ali Mansourian

5 oktober 2020

Heatwaves in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, have been experiencing an increase in negative effects caused by heat waves each year. The high temperatures are impacting the quality of life in the city, the local infrastructure and the environment. As temperatures are and will increase in the coming years, Rotterdam is and has been busy adapting by changing and planning in the urban infrastructure, by creating awareness through app and monitoring temperatures in and around the city. The sudden rise in high temperatures will mainly affect the more vulnerable in society and furthermore less income households will experience more negative effects as indoor cooling (e.g. air-conditioning) is costly. This report will present an overview of the shock heat waves in the city of Rotterdam, through: a problem statement, how it will impact the city, the development of the shock in the future and its solution strategies.

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Anita Tang

5 oktober 2020

Air pollution in Jakarta

In the recent years Jakarta has infamously reached the top 10 of most polluted cities in the world. Due to an increase in population, climate change, modernization and industrialization of Indonesia and Jakarta. The main sources of its pollution are vehicle emissions, heavy industry, burning of organic matter, construction and dust, and its citizens now have carry the burden. After large increases in disease, deaths and economic costs the cities regulators have finally accepted that measurements have to be taken and, together with NGO’s, taken action in the form of measurements and a roadmap to 2030. In the plan, vast infrastructural projects are proposed to improve connectivity in the city and encourage the use of public transport. Furthermore, plans to implement and enforce emission standards and regulations for private vehicles and heavy industry are proposed. Finally, they plan to handle Jakartas large waste crisis in the suburbs and informal housing, which is currently mostly burned, as citizens see no other way to dispose of it. The regulators plans are ambitious, and will certainly improve the standard of living for the whole city after completion. However, during its implementation it will have vast consequences for thousands of citizens as these infrastructure projects will require the demolition of thousands of houses. If new regulations and policies are too restrictive it can harm the lower-class citizens and economic growth. A final problem is finance, the plans are not only ambitious, they are also incredibly expensive. It will require the cooperation of the private and public sector, as well the intergovernmental cooperation between different branches to ensure these plans can be successful. Fortunately, the air quality is easy to measure, as the stations used in previous air quality monitoring studies, together with the enforcement of emission standards can be used to monitor how the air quality will increase as each phase of the plan is implemented. A careful balance and timeline has to be crafted to implement new regulations and infrastructure projects, but in the end, the citizens will reap the benefit.

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Jasper Krijn

5 oktober 2020

Pluvial floods in Rotterdam

This present report contains an overview of the effects and future adaptation strategies for a potential fluvial flood in the city of Rotterdam. To begin with, the presence of the river Nieuwe Maas through Rotterdam added up with the expected intense climate change effects in the future, pose a threat for a fluvial flood to occur. In this case, the mostly affected areas would be the unembanked ones such as Kop van Feijenoord and Noordereiland. Critical infrastructure such as dikes and railways while also properties, houses and the road network would face a great threat in a possible river flood. Until 2050, with the increased climate change implications such as extreme rainfalls and augmented river discharge, a probability of a fluvial flood will not remain at the low levels it is today. Furthermore, this kind of shock in the city of Rotterdam would have serious consequences on the society and create serious ethical dilemmas. Questions such as how equally would compensations be distributed or would the people just abandon their homes before the actual flood occurs, are only few from the ones that would rise. Nevertheless, essential adaptation strategies are already applied or being planned in order for Rotterdam to be able withstand these disastrous effects. Floating houses and reinforced dikes are some of the technical measures mentioned while there are specific governance arrangements that can be decided. These measures, can also have both a positive and negative effect on society, something that is also analysed. Moreover, some suggestions regarding the monitoring of the effects of the reported strategies and measures are included. In the last part of the report, understanding and discussion questions are added for readers.

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Nikos Bias

27 september 2017

Introduction to the Water Chain

Dr. Ellen van Bueren defines “Urban Water Chain” and provides an overview of what it entails, including infrastructure, collection, and treatment of wastewater.

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Ellen van Bueren

21 augustus 2021

Japanese Cities: Critical infrastructure design for extreme resilience

HOW TO NAVIGATE THIS CASE STUDY: First, please refer to the Teacher's Guide using the yellow "View Materials" button on the left pane. The teacher's guide outlines the purpose, contents, approach, case structure, and technical information of this case study. This case study was curated from other independently published open educational resources and from existing materials on this platform. These resources are also organized by domain. At the bottom of each resource's page, you can see both the city case study and SURF Resilience domain to which it belongs. Click on the case study or the domain name to navigate to the case study homepage or SURF Resilience collection, respectively. OVERVIEW: This set contains a teaching guide, seven thematic foci, and gaming simulations. In this set, you will discover the challenges and opportunities provided by the concept of urban resilience on mitigating and preventing flooding. Examples of design considerations of hydraulic structures and spillways will show you how resilience can be integrated into urban planning and management. Then, you will dive into the topic of large waves, typhoons, storm surges, and tsunamis. You will see how one natural disaster can pose potential downstream risks for society, as exhibited by the 2011 tsunami and the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant failure. Moreover, you will see how tsunamis impact multiple urban subsystems such as transportation, buildings, sanitation, and environment. You will have the opportunity to think about solution strategies and their ethical considerations. Then, you will look into the process of post-disaster reconstruction after a disaster has uprooted existing systems. Lastly, you will see how man-made climate change has created alternative urban climates. You will also look into how to design for a better, more comfortable urban microclimate. End by playing related resilience games.

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Eunice Koid, Claudia Rot, Martine Rutten

5 oktober 2020

River flooding in Jakarta

Since 1949, Jakarta is facing massive industrial and urban growth due to new colonisations at the Ciliwung River’s mouth. As Jakarta became one of the most important industrial centres in Indonesia, devastating effects of river floods also increased. These two factors may seem irrelevant at first sight, but actually urbanization stimulates river flood events to increase. With changing land use due to rapid urbanization, soil permeability decreases, retention time of water in the environment decreases, deforestation occurs. Also, when changes in precipitation patterns are combined with these factors, Jakarta faces catastrophic effects of river flooding. One of the most important factors that increases the damage of these natural disasters is the lack of infrastructure with appropriate legislations. Applicable solution strategies to decrease the damage of flood on Jakarta includes; institutional measures such as new legislations and public education and technical measures such as infrastructure installation, watershed planning, wastewater management, natural resources management. From an environmental perspective, this study emphasizes river flooding problems of Jakarta and brings solutions on increasing the resilience of the city for a sustainable future.

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Elif Basli