Yvonne van Mil

Delft University of Technology | TU · Department of Architecture

The Atlas was created within the LDE PortCityFutures research group and the Faculty of Architecture TU Delft. It is part of the series on the Urbanization of the Sea, and the kick-off of a sub-series on Mapping Port Cities > An analytical study on the complexity of port cities in Europe A multitude of port cities dots Europe’s coastline, all servin...

Port cities around the world have long facilitated trade and the exchange of people. They have developed as part of a network with mirroring facilities for storage, trade and housing in each location. Many of these cities have developed over centuries and share long histories and extensive heritage sites. In this chapter, we argue that while it is...

Contemporary urbanization patterns around the North Sea can only be understood by looking at their long-term development and studying how these patterns arose and evolved over the centuries. If we look no further back than the Industrial Revolution, we get a distorted picture. The fact is that urbanization patterns were for the most part already es...

Review of a book written by Herman van Bergeijk

Centuries of trade have left their traces in the culture and society of port cities. This paper explores the usefulness of the concept "maritime mindset" to recognize these traces, and analyses it from different disciplinary perspectives. In the second part, it proposes the practice of "deep mapping" as a methodology of identifying and documenting...

Ports are clearly demarcated structures on land and water. They are fenced in, easily recognizable on satellite and ortho‐photo images, and they have specific functions. This apparent clarity of ports, their function and outline, in relation to nearby urban and rural areas, becomes more complex when explored through the lens of land use, that is th...

Around the North Sea, how have port cities and cities in the hinterlands of port cities influenced one another in the past? What possible links are there between population trends in various urban areas and time periods? Is it possible to identify the origin of the urbanization patterns around the North Sea? To understand the current era of urbaniz...

book review of Mapping Landscapes in Transformation: Multidisciplinary Methods for Historical Analysis by Yvonne van Mil

In de 17e eeuw kenden een aantal steden in de Republiek der Vereenigde Nederlanden een grote bloei. In 1652 brachten de Amsterdamse kaartuitgevers Joan en Willem Blaeu de atlas Toonneel der Steden van de Vereenighde Nederlanden uit. Behalve in de steden was er ook een grote ontwikkeling in het omliggende land: nieuwe vormen van infrastuctuur, groot...

Many megacities around the world are located in deltas where the possibilities of shipping and the availability of flat fertile lands have attracted large numbers of people, industries and businesses. These areas also face multiple water-based challenges: the provision of clean drinking water, the cleaning of sewage water, subsidence, delivery of w...

Politicians, planners, and mapmakers have long used mapping to depict selected spaces, to document natural and humanmade changes within them, and to identify spaces where planning intervention is needed or can be helpful. Recent innovations involving big data, GIS-based research and digital datasets offer opportunities for maps and mapping that can...

Researchers from multiple disciplines study ports and port cities using various forms of visualization. To better understand port cities' challenges and opportunities, some use mathematical modeling of economic flows or shipping, while others use geo-spatial mapping of land and water territories. In the visualization of port city regions, economic...

How to survive as a company in a global economy that is a constant state of flux? That question is central of Driven by Steel - From Hoogovens to Tata Steel 1918-2018. The history of Ijmuiden iron and steel works was unquestionably an eventful one. Established in 1918 as NV Koninklijke Nederlandsche Hoogovens and Staalfabrieken, today the company i...

It is impossible to study the history of Dutch public housing and urban planning in the twentieth century without repeatedly coming across the name Pieter Bakker Schut. From 1904 onwards, he was chairman of the Sociaal-Technische Vereeniging van Democratische Ingenieurs en Architecten (STV, Social-Technical Society of Democratic Engineers and Archi...

Het gebied rond de Schie, tussen Delft, Schiedam en Rotterdam, is het resultaat van een eeuwenlange wisselwerking tussen mens en natuur. Dat is de rode draad van de Atlas van de Schie, een publicatie van Erfgoedhuis Zuid-Holland en de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed. De ondertitel is dan ook ‘2500 jaar werken aan land en water’. De Atlas ver...

Het Westland staat bekend als een met kassen bebouwd gebied in de zuidwesthoek van Holland. Als greenport levert de regio een belangrijke bijdrage aan de Nederlandse economie, maar wat heeft ‘de glazen stad’ in cultuurhistorisch opzicht te bieden? De Atlas van het Westland – 10.000 jaar ruimtelijke ontwikkeling toont hoe het landschap, de inrichti...

The Netherlands is the most densely urbanized country in Europe. Its crowded landscape of larger and smaller, older and younger towns was formed in the course of a millennium. What were the roots of this urban landscape, and how did it develop? What do the urbanization histories of the Netherlands and the rest of Europe have in common, and how do t...

In het voorjaar van 1929 werd in Den Haag het Gewestelijk plan Zuid-Holland-West tentoongesteld. Anders dan de titel suggereert toonde de expositie geen ontwerp, maar een voorstudie; een verzameling van gegevens die nodig waren bij het opstellen van een gewestelijk plan. Niet eerder waren de resultaten van een dergelijk vooronderzoek in Nederland m...

Dit katern geeft een overzicht van ruim duizend jaar verstedelijking in Nederland. De kaartenreeks toont niet alleen de chronologie van het verstedelijkingsproces, maar ook hoe dit samenhangt met de landschappelijke ondergrond en de infrastructuur. Dit kaartkatern vormt het pendant van hoofdstuk 2, ‘Stadswording in Nederland’, waarin de kaartbeelde...

Alexander Jacobus Kropholler played a remarkable role in a very eventful period in Dutch architectural history. During the first half of the twentieth century discussions started between traditionally oriented architects and modern architects. As a conservative traditionalist, Kropholler played a fanatic role in these discussions. In spite of the r...