Required Literature – SWELL
Course week(s)
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Course subject(s)
1. Sun
2. Wind, noise and water
3. Traffic and Earth
4. Life and Living
5. Environment
6. Legends for Design
Jong, Taeke M. de ed. (2008) Sun wind water earth life living, legends for design(Zoetermeer)
Content and introduction
Sun, Energy and Plants
1.1 Energy
1.2 Sun, light and shadow
1.3 Temperature, geography and history
1.4 Planting by man
Wind, sound and noise
2.1 Global atmosphere
2.2 National choice of location
2.3 Regional choice of location
2.4 Local measures
2.5 District and neighbourhood variants
2.6 Allotment of hectares
2.7 Sound and Noise
Water, networks and crossings
3.1 Water balance
3.2 Civil engineering in the Netherlands
3.3 Water policy
3.4 The second network: Roads
3.5 Other networks: cables and ducts
Earth and site preparation
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Earth sciences
4.3 Engineering
4.4 Applications for designers
Life, ecology and nature
5.1 Natural history
5.2 Diversity, scale and dispersion
5.3 Ecologies
5.4 Valuing nature
5.5 Managing nature
Living, human density and environment
6.1 Adaption and accommodation
6.2 Habitat
6.3 Density
6.4 Economy
6.5 Environment
6.6 Soil pollution
Legends for design
7.1 Mapping
6.2 Child perspective
6.3 Composition analysis
6.4 Legends
6.5 Scales of separation
6.6 Boundaries of imagination
Literature, Key Words and Questions
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