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Built Environment
  • From 'jungle gym' to logistics

    From 'jungle gym' to logistics

    ‘I didn’t see myself jump over the buck in a gym until I retire...’ I am talking to Leo Kemps, director of Logistics Community Brabant (LCB) for just...

    • Stories
  • All the way to Okotoks

    All the way to Calgary

    For the minor International Urban Redevelopment, Built Environment lecturers Paul van de Coevering and Ineke Spapé travelled to Calgary together with...

    • Student work
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    Innovative mobility solutions showcased in Brno

    Innovative start-ups from Czechia, Slovakia, Israel and Spain inspired representatives of Czech and Slovak municipalities and other urban mobility...

    • Expertise
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    Student Stijn wins CIVITAS Visual Story Competition

    Built Environment student Stijn is one of the winners of CIVITAS Visual Story Competition. In the competition, students were challenged to answer...

    • Student work
  • Freeing Our Future

    Freeing Our Future

    Why American children have become prisoners in their own homes and how a Dutch perspective can help.

    • Student work
  • Living in Cities LAB

    Living in Cities LAB

    The Living in Cities LAB is a first year practical LAB where the students work with a case study set in Bellville, Western cape, South Africa.

    • Student work
  • The interaction between land use and transportation

    The interaction between land use and transportation

    Professor Urban Intelligence, Paul van de Coevering, co-published an article with Kees Maat and Bert van Wee on the interaction between land use and...

    • Expertise
  • Smart and Healthy Cities: Tunnel vision

    Smart and Healthy Cities: Tunnel vision

    "How do cities transform twilight zones in their city into attractive places actually promoting active lifestyles instead of discouraging them?"

    • Expertise
  • Built Environment Industry Event 2023

    Built Environment Industry Event 2023

    On 27 January the first edition of the Built Environment Industry Event took place.

    • Student work
  • Changing the Last Mile deliverables for Eindhoven

    Changing the Last Mile deliverables for Eindhoven

    The first part of the minor Last Mile and the City: how to organise a sustainable last mile in an urban environment in 2030 ended with a presentation...

    • Expertise
    • Student work
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    I mainly tell them how not to do it! 

    ‘Retiring!? Who told you that!? Yes, in one year, nine months and two days...’ Oh dear, that almost sounds like Rien Smalheer, lecturer of Built...

  • Placement & Graduation overview

    Placement & Graduation overview

    Worldwide overview of placements and graduations of Built Environment and Logistics students.

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    Symposium International Urban Redevelopment

    Expert teams on car dependency, placemaking, social cohesion and urban design present their knowledge for retrofitting North American cities.

    • Expertise
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    Marine Spatial Planning Autumn School

    From the 31st of October until November the 4th 2022, 17 students from the second year of the international Built Environment course participated in a...

    • Student work
  • Tropical NL exhibited at International Architecture Biennale

    Tropical NL exhibited at International Architecture Biennale

    Luiz Carvalho, Lecturer Urban Design at BUas, and his team have been selected to exhibit their project Tropical NL at the International Architecture...

    • Expertise
  • BUas in lead again to organize “Mobility Powered by the Youth” conference

    BUas in lead to organize “Mobility Powered by the Youth” conference

    On 20 September 2022, the CIVITAS Conference “Mobility Powered by the Youth” took place as part of the Urban Mobility Days Conference in the city of...

    • Expertise
  • ABEL contributes to Catalogue on Education in Urban Mobility

    ABEL contributes to Catalogue on Education in Urban Mobility

    For the CIVITAS project, ABEL helped create an inventory of mobility training courses in Europe. 

    • Expertise
  • Professor Ineke Spapé joins board of Walk21 Europe

    Professor Ineke Spapé joins board of Walk21 Europe

    Providing leadership for walking in Europe

    • Expertise
  • Innovative urban mobility solutions showcased in Bucharest

    Innovative urban mobility solutions showcased in Bucharest

    Innovative urban mobility solutions inspired stakeholders from academia, public authorities, NGOs and industry at the Urban Mobility Incubation...

    • Expertise
    • News
  • PhD thesis Paul van de Coevering: ‘The Interplay between Land Use, Travel Behaviour and Attitudes.’

    The Interplay between Land Use, Travel Behaviour and Attitudes

    This PhD thesis of Paul van de Coevering revolves around the question to what extent compact city policies such as ‘transit-oriented development’ and...

    • Expertise