The form and format of a ‘teaching case’ implies ready-to-use teaching material that can be easily integrated within a module and/or curriculum. This is why we created (and tested across three pilots and with more than 250 students) ‘Researching the city: Mapping imaginaries’ teaching case accompanied by teachers’ training materials, sensory toolkit, all accessible through an online platform, the ‘Knowledge hub’ that further showcases the works of our students, their walks through our cities and the arguments why we all have to understand and connect in meaningful ways with urban areas that are often seen as in the so-called ‘periphery’ (or further away from the city centres).
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In this paper, we discuss the pedagogical approach of two lessons that are aimed at learning domain knowledge and systems thinking simultaneously using qualitative representations. Next to understanding basic cause-effect relationships, these lessons focus on the notion that systems can move through different states of behavior. An additional focus concerns system boundaries and distinguishing between what is part-of and not part-of a system.
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Als studieboek is dit werk vooral bedoeld voor studenten en docenten van zowel bachelor- en masteropleidingen Nederlands van universiteiten als masteropleidingen van hogescholen. Delen van dit boek kunnen voor bachelor-opleidingen van die hogescholen gebruikt worden. Als naslagwerke is het bedoeld voor de specialisten. Het boek geeft een breed beeld van de materie door met het ontstaan en de groei door met het historisch-vergelijkend taalkundig onderzoek te beginnen en via het Indo-Europees en de taalveranderingen daarna, uit te komen op het zeventiende eeuws Nederlands. Maar waar ansdere handboeken dan ophouden, geeft dit boek een vervolg met drie hoofdstukken over de geschiedenis van het Nedersaksisch, het Brabants, Limburgs Vlaams en Zeeuws, en het Fries. De uitbreiding maakt het boek bijzonder ongeacht de doelgroepen. Het werk bevat tien hoofdstukken waarvan sommige voorzien zijn van vragenmateriaal. Ver is het boek rijk geillustreerd en is er aan het eind niet alleen een zeer uitgebreid trefwoordenregister opgenomen maar ook een verklarende lijst gebruikte taalkundige termen.
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Supermarkets are essential urban household amenities, providing daily products, and for their social role in communities. Contrary to many other countries, including nearby ones, the Netherlands have a balanced distribution of supermarkets across villages and urban neighbourhoods. However, spatial supermarket patterns, are subject to influential developments. First, due to economies of scale, there is a tendency for supermarkets to increase their catchment areas and to disappear from peripheral villages. Second, supermarkets are now mainly located in residential areas, although the urban periphery appears to be attractive for the retail sector, perhaps including the rise of hypermarkets. Third, today, online grocery shopping is still lagging far behind on other online shopping products, but a breaks through will dilute population support for in-store supermarkets and can lead to dramatic ‘game changer’ shifts with major spatial and social effects. These three important trends will reinforce each other. Consequences are of natural community meeting places at the expense of social cohesion; reduced accessibility for daily products, leading to more travel, often by car; increasing delivery flows; real estate vacancies, and increasing suburban demand increase for retail and logistics. Expected changes in supermarket patterns require understanding, but academic literature on OGS is still scarce, and does hardly address household behaviour in changing spatial constellations. We develop likely spatial supermarket patterns, and model the consequences for travel demand, social cohesion and real estate demand, as well as the distribution between online and in-store grocery shopping, by developing a stated preference experiment, among Dutch households.
