Prof.dr.ing. S. (Steffen) Nijhuis
Prof.dr.ing. S. (Steffen) Nijhuis
Profiel
Expertise
landscape-based urbanism, sustainable urban landscape development, design with natural processes, designed heritage landscapes & gardens, digital landscape architecture, and visual landscape research
Research Leader Department of Urbanism
Steffen Nijhuis is an internationally experienced academic, designer, project leader, and author of award-winning publications. By training, he is a landscape architect and a gardener. His work focuses on landscape-based urbanism, sustainable urban landscape development, design with natural processes, designed heritage landscapes & gardens and digital landscape architecture. He is Full Professor of Landscape-based Urbanism, Head of the Section Landscape Architecture and Research Leader of the Department of Urbanism at Delft University of Technology.
Nijhuis is an advisor to NGO’s, governmental and regional authorities across the world and serves on the boards of the TU Delft Department of Urbanism and the Chabot Museum Rotterdam. He is also Editor in Chief of the Research in Urbanism Series (RiUS) and the Springer Urban Studies Book Series.
Supervision of PhD, post-MSc and MSc graduation projects are core activities. Furthermore, he is Visiting Professor and Guest Lecturer at Universities in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North America.
More info: www.steffennijhuis.nl
Expertise
Publicaties
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2024
Advancements in smart cities, Internet of Things, and Internet of Nature
A brief overview of applications and best practices in the Netherlands
Steffen Nijhuis -
2024
Collective Memory, Urban Regeneration and Conservation of Historical Sites
ChaharBagh Street, Isfahan City, Iran
Mehdi Haghighat Bin / Sara Saghafi Moghaddam / Steffen Nijhuis -
2024
Comparison of Compact and Decentralized Urban Development Pathways for Flood Mitigation in Urbanizing Deltas
Guangzhou in the Pearl River Delta as a Case Study
Weibin Lin / Yimin Sun / Steffen Nijhuis -
2024
Conservation and development of the historic garden in a landscape context
A systematic literature review
Jingsen Lian / Steffen Nijhuis / Gregory Bracken / Xiangyan Wu / Xiaomin Wu / Dong Chen -
2024
Design knowledge of urban agriculture providing ecosystem services
A systematic literature review
Yu Huan / Steffen Nijhuis / Nico Tillie -
Media
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2024-06-12
Middeleeuwse vloeivelden kunnen ook nu helpen wateroverlast en droogte tegen te gaan
Verscheen in: Trouw
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2020-03-06
TV News-item about Sanibel-Captiva, Florida
Verscheen in: WINK TV Southwest Florida
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2019-05-31
Return of the Herring
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2018-11-23
Voyage Dans La Silicon Valley Chinoise
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2016-11-30
Begrip zoekt lading: ontwerpend onderzoek in de landschapsarchitectuur
Verscheen in: Dutch School of Landscape Architecture
Prijzen
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2020
Springer Nature 2019 Research Highlights in Urban Studies
The book chapter ‘Exploring Spatial Relationships in the Pearl River Delta’, by Liang Xiong and Steffen Nijhuis has been selected as Springer Nature 2019 Highlights in Urban Studies as it is among the top research that made an impact. Its affiliated book ‘Cities as Spatial and Social Networks‘ has been selected as one of the Top Books.
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2018-10-8
Reed & Mallik Medal 2018
Awarded for 'Teaching urbanism: the Delft approach'
ICE Publishing Awards 2018