{"id":916,"date":"2010-07-01T18:57:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T22:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/?p=916"},"modified":"2016-11-11T08:04:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T16:04:35","slug":"professor-varady-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2010\/07\/professor-varady-in-the-netherlands","title":{"rendered":"Professor Varady in the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/leiden-148.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-917\" title=\"Leiden tram and bicycles\" src=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/leiden-148.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/leiden-148.jpg 480w, https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/leiden-148-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is something of a guest post by proxy. My father, <a href=\"http:\/\/daap.uc.edu\/academics\/planning\/sop_directory.html?eid=varadydp&#038;thecomp=uceprof_0\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. David Varady<\/a>, is on his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/sabbatical\" target=\"_blank\">sabbatical<\/a> and working at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Delft_University_of_Technology\" target=\"_blank\">Delft University of Technology<\/a> in the Netherlands. My mother, meanwhile, is working on visiting in person all the Dutch art she scanned from books during her tenure as the visual arts librarian at the University of Cincinnati&#8217;s Design School (DAAP) library.<\/p>\n<p>My father began preparing slideshows of his travels around the Netherlands, with a prominent urban planning perspective. He prepares these by using Microsoft PowerPoint and then exporting the presentation as a PDF. The presentations are too large to share as attachments to emails so he asked if I would kindly host them here at Aharon&#8217;s Omphalos. So here they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Poptahof.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Poptahof<\/a> (5mb)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Middleburg.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Middleburg<\/a> (23.5mb)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/kinderdijk.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Kinderdijk<\/a> (6mb)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Schilderswijk and Transvaal Den Haag_rev 6july.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Schilderswijk and Transvaal in Den Haag<\/a> (6mb)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Shopping and Fun in Delft-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Shopping and Fun in Delft<\/a> (1mb)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Oude Delft 75.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Oude Delft<\/a> (5mb)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Den Bosch_rev.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Den Bosch<\/a> (10mb)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/amsterdam docklands.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Amsterdam Docklands<\/a> (25mb)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/almere.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Almere<\/a> (15mb)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Bjlmermeer in Amsterdam revised.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Bjlmermeer in Amsterdam<\/a> (30mb)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More will be added as they are received.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_1070.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-918\" style=\"width: 480px; height: 360px;\" title=\"Public art in Middleburg, Holland\" src=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_1070.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_1070.jpg 480w, https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_1070-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>This is something of a guest post by proxy. My father, Dr. David Varady, is on his sabbatical and working at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. My mother, meanwhile, is working on visiting in person all the Dutch art she scanned from books during her tenure as the visual <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Continue reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2010\/07\/professor-varady-in-the-netherlands\">Professor Varady in the Netherlands<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,17],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-planning","tag-parental-units","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Professor Varady in the Netherlands &#8226; Aharon&#039;s Omphalos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2010\/07\/professor-varady-in-the-netherlands\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Professor Varady in the Netherlands &#8226; Aharon&#039;s Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is something of a guest post by proxy. 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