Experience Amsterdam

Experience Amsterdam: A positive coexistence between the quality of life and the quality of tourism

Van der Burg, L.

Relats Torante, M. (mentor)
Calabrese, L.M. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Urbanism

2016-06-21

This thesis proposes an alternative way of urban transformation in Buiksloterham, Amsterdam. The city has gotten very popular in the last decades and attracts many new residents and tourists. It has created an imbalance between the two groups and it set the city for a task. In order to deal with the crowdedness the municipality tries to spread the tourists to its region and less visited neighbourhoods. In this thesis Buiksloterham is used as a site to develop a plan which makes a positive coexistence possible between resident and tourist. Through theoretical research in the quality of life and the quality of tourism spatial tools have been found to do this. The plan for the development of a part of Buiksloterham has been tied to the genius loci of the place and the city. The plan offers a high degree of individuality for its residents in a liveable area which enhances the social cohesion. The used urban typologies and cultural and recreational program provide the base for tourism in which the experience of the place is most important.

urban development
Amsterdam
tourism
happiness

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Student theses

master thesis

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