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DASH" stands for Delft Architectural Studies on Housing Design. The series aims to make an international contribution to residential design from a Dutch perspective. This fifth issue of "DASH" is about the urban enclave: large-scale projects in the existing city that constitute an interruption of the urban fabric of blocks and streets, creating a specific internal world. The large-scale view of urban renewal is a hallmark of modern architecture that is often criticized. In practice, suburbanization and other modernization concepts meet with intense opposition, which has resulted in the 'makeability' ideal of the modernists being set in a bad light. Despite this resistance, several largescale developments have been realized over the last century, and recent projects in Amsterdam even indicate the emergence of a trend