Wist U dat de beroemde zwarte Amerikaanse vrijheidsstrijder Sojourner Truth als slavin van een Nederlandstalige slaveneigenaar werd geboren en tot haar tiende jaar Nederlands sprak? Of dat de Nederlanders tot slaaf gemaakte Afrikanen naar Noord Amerika brachten in schepen van de West Indische Compagnie? Deze verrassende gids toont de sporen van Nederlandse aanwezigheid in New York, de stad en de staat. Het accent ligt op het Nederlands bewind in Nieuw Amsterdam en Nieuw Nederland in zeventien...

In 2016, the CISG Advisory Council celebrated its fifteenth anniversary. On this occasion, the current members of the CISG Advisory Council decided to publish a book containing all CISG Advisory Council related documents. For the first time, the original versions of all Opinions and Declarations, their annexes, and the text of the CISG are published in one book.

This book is designed to facilitate the work on and with the CISG. It enables the reader in gaining an overview of the CISG Advisory...

The enormous growth in the world population, the ever-increasing difference in welfare between rich and poor countries and the rapid progress in mass communication and mass transport have caused peoples and

cultures to mingle more than ever before. We cannot get around it any longer: the cultural diversity of society is an indisputable fact. In interactions between people with different cultural norms and values (intercultural contact), there is a greater chance of misunderstanding, miscommun...

A E I OU Articles, Essays, Interviews and Out-takes. The name itself says something of the nature of Tony Fretton's collected writing.

As an architect he has said 'Words, the most collective form of communication, thread their way through the projects, in explanations to clients and constructors, and as my means, along with drawings, of explaining the projects to my collaborators, to myself and to the wider world.'

As Professor of Architectural Design-Interiors at TU Delft, he wrote: 'Interi...

Archieven zijn collecties documenten die voor historische en culturele doeleinden, en vanwege hun bewijskracht, bewaard worden. In die hoedanigheid behoren archieven in feite tot het verleden; het zijn plaatsen die sporen bevatten van het collectieve geheugen van een natie, een volk, of een groep mensen. Digitale archieven zijn veranderd van stabiele entiteiten naar flexibele systemen, die soms aangeduid worden met de term 'Living Archives'. Hoe heeft deze verandering onze relatie tot het ver...

Make Your City geeft een fascinerend beeld van twintig jaar pionieren in de stad, aangevuld met de lessen die daaruit te trekken zijn. In 1999 trok een bont gezelschap van skateboarders tot theatermakers en bijstandsmoeders in de toen verlaten scheepsbouwloods op de NDSM-werf in Amsterdam-Noord. Op eigen kracht ontwikkelden zij een toekomststrategie voor het gebouw en zijn omgeving: geen sloop maar herbestemming; een plek voor kleine maakindustrie en kunstenaars; geen tijdelijke invulling maa...

This book tells the unbelievable story of "Master of Disaster" Frank Krake, and his experiences after becoming the director of the struggling patio furniture giant, Unimeta. In his ambitious attempts to make the company a success, he is continuously plagued by setbacks: A firework disaster destroys the company's entire inventory when the resulting massive explosion blows the warehouse and its contents to smithereens. Resulting in the death of 23 people and the injuries of over 1,000 others, t...

In 2002, Gunawan Tjahjono opened his inaugural speech at University of Indonesia with a reference to Vincent Van Romondt, the last remaining Dutch tutor of architecture in Indonesia, who had pioneered an approach that challenged Indonesians to think about the relationship between architecture and 'nationbuilding'. Since independence, the topic of 'towards an Indonesian architecture,' has received various interpretations, with numerous references to Van Romondt. Josef Prijotomo, one of the mos...

This issue of A+BE sets out to contribute to filling the current knowledge gaps concerning the recent socio-spatial transformation processes and their consequences in Lithuania. The thesis aimed to contribute answers to the following questions:

- What are the main features and drivers of socio-spatial change in post-socialist Lithuania?

- Why, despite the growing economy and improvements in the standard of living, Lithuania is facing major challenges related to extreme population decline and...