By 2005 most of the recommendations of the 1971 Delft Report had been implemented.

The Gold Coast City Council then committed to completing a review of beach management practices to update the Delft Report.

( 2003 ) ( ed ) ‘ Virtual water trade: Proceedings of the International Expert Meeting on Virtual Water Trade ’ Value of Water Research Report Series No. 12, UNESCO-IHE, Delft, the Netherlands

* Vergragt, Ph., Strategies Towards the Sustainable Household, SusHouse Project Final Report, Delft University of Technology, NL, 2000.

By then Delft was one of the leading cities of Holland and it was equipped with the necessary city walls to serve as a headquarters.

After the Act of Abjuration was proclaimed in 1581 Delft became the de facto capital of the newly independent Netherlands, as the seat of the Prince of Orange.

Therefore, he was buried in the Delft Nieuwe Kerk ( New Church ), starting a tradition for the House of Orange that has continued to the present day.

The university was the second of its kind in the Netherlands, only Delft University of Technology existed previously.

It was the second institute of its kind in the Netherlands, preceded only by the Delft University of Technology.

One of the most high-profile cases was the brutal evictions of squatters in the N2 Gateway homes in the suburb of Delft, where over 20 residents were shot, including a three-year-old child.

And in September, Stieltjes was asked to substitute at University of Delft for F J van den Berg.

Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek ( in Dutch also Anthonie, Antoni, or Theunis, in English, Antony or Anton ;, ; October 24, 1632 – August 26, 1723 ) was a Dutch tradesman and scientist from Delft, Netherlands.

Eventually, in the face of Van Leeuwenhoek's insistence, the Royal Society arranged to send an English vicar, as well as a team of respected jurists and doctors, to Delft, to determine whether it was in fact Van Leeuwenhoek's ability to observe and reason clearly, or perhaps the Royal Society's theories of life itself that might require reform.

He died at the age of 90, on August 26, 1723 and was buried four days later in the Oude Kerk ( Delft ).

In 1907, van Meegeren, compelled by his father's demands, left home to study at the Technische Hogeschool ( Delft Technical College ), as it was called in those days, in Delft, the hometown of Johannes Vermeer.

Tromp, a " sea hero ", was immensely popular with the common people, a sentiment expressed by the greatest of Dutch poets, Joost van den Vondel in a famous poem describing his marble grave monument in Delft showing the admiral on his moment of death with a burning British fleet on the foreground:

His father Huib Luns was a versatile artist and a gifted educationalist, who ended his career as professor of architectural drawing at the Technical University of Delft.

The success which followed his labors not only in the city of Utrecht, but also in Zwolle, Deventer, Kampen, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Gouda, Leiden, Delft, Zutphen and elsewhere, was immense ; according to Thomas à Kempis the people left their business and their meals to hear his sermons, so that the churches could not hold the crowds that flocked together wherever he came.

His body was moved to the Dutch Royal Family crypt in the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft on 29 April 1958.

Declared an outlaw by the Spanish king in 1580, he was assassinated by Balthasar Gérard ( also written as " Gerardts ") in Delft four years later.

Rarely was any thought given to the artistic heritage of these cities, though families were sometimes able to protect the church monuments of their ancestors, and in Delft the syndics of the painters ' Guild of Saint Luke were able to rescue the altarpiece by Maarten van Heemskerck, which the guild had commissioned only 15 years earlier.

She was embalmed ( unlike her mother, who chose not to be ) and on 30 March 2004 interred beside her mother, Wilhelmina, in the royal vaults under the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft.

Much of the finer work was produced in Delft, but simple everyday tin-glazed pottery was made in places such as Gouda, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Dordrecht.

In 1654 a gunpowder explosion in Delft destroyed many breweries and as the brewing industry was in decline they became available to pottery makers looking for larger premises ; some retained the old brewery names, e. g. The Double Tankard, The Young Moors ' Head and The Three Bells.

* How Delft blue faience or ' porcelain ' was produced in the delftware potteries

Delft Outlook is published in English, while the same content is published in Dutch in Delft Integraal magazine.

* Also published in the Delft Hydraulics Select Series ( No. 7 / 2005 ).

A recently published research thesis, Genetic sequence alignment on a supercomputing platform from the Computer Engineering department at Delft University shows an analysis on FPGA-based Smith – Waterman acceleration.

Sander Kleinenberg () ( born 1971, Delft ) is a Dutch disc jockey, VDJ, and record producer.

Nuna 5, from a series of Nuna solar-powered cars that won the World Solar Challenge four times, constructed by the students of TU Delft.

After 1870 Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint abandoned historical romance for the modern society novel, but her Delftsche Wonderdokter (" The Necromancer of Delft ", 1871 ) and Majoor Frans (" Major Frank ", 1875 ) did not command the success of her earlier works.

In works such as Carl Andre in Delft ( 1968 ) or, later, Protective Custody ( 1978 ) Polke used a canvas made of furnishing fabric, thus elevating it to the status of a visual motif.

van Bohemen ( 2004 ), Ecological Engineering and Civil Engineering works, Doctoral thesis TU Delft, The Netherlands.

Delft is primarily known for its typically Dutch town centre ( with canals ); also for the painter Vermeer, Delft Blue pottery ( Delftware ), the Delft University of Technology, and its association with the Dutch royal family, the House of Orange-Nassau.

However, the Delft merchants had decided to keep the discovery secret and returned in 1615 to hunt for their own profit.

In 2008, the Delft University of Technology applied for a patent on the molybdenum-98-based production of molybdenum-99

* ( VEW04 ) " Using a Decompiler for Real-World Source Recovery ", M. Van Emmerik and T. Waddington, the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, 9 – 12 November 2004.

He nevertheless proved to be an apt architect, and in fact designed the clubhouse for his rowing club DDS in Delft ( see image ).

On 8 January 1913, he received the prestigious Gold Medal from the Technical University in Delft, for his Study of the Interior of the Church of Saint Lawrence ( Laurenskerk ) in Rotterdam.

In 2012 Leiden entered into a strategic alliance with Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam in order for the universities to increase the quality of their research and teaching.

* Laga, a student society for rowing at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands

Delft University of Technology was founded on January 8, 1842 by King William II of the Netherlands as Royal Academy for the education of civilian engineers, for serving both nation and industry, and of apprentices for trade.

In 1917 Proof Garden for Technical Plantation () was established by Gerrit van Iterson, which today is known as Botanical Garden of TU Delft.

Because of the increasing number of students, in 1974 the first Reception Week for First Year Students (, OWEE ) was established, which became a TU Delft tradition since then.

In the course of further expansion, in 1987 Delft Top Tech institute was established, which provided a professional master education in management for people working in the technology-related companies.

TU Delft botanical garden dates back to 1917, where Proof Garden for Technical Plantation () was established by Gerrit van Iterson Jr., TU Delft graduate and assistant to Martinus Beijerinck.