City around the corner

City around the corner: Strategic design interventions to alter the urban rhythm in the peri-urban areas of Rotterdam

Brouwer, Juliette (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Hausleitner, B. (mentor)
Wandl, Alex (mentor)
Verheul, W.J. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

2022-06-24

In the current era of global warming and urbanisation, it has become imperative to change the urban rhythm. Our current mobility habits make human and nature unhappy and unhealthy. This problem is apparent in sub-urban neighbourhoods, that often experience low connectivity and low local vitality. The 15-minute city is a model that puts focus on vicinity in the city. In the 15-Minute city, all urban facilities needed to live, learn and thrive are within a 15-minute reach by foot or bicycle from home.
In my graduation project, I research how the neighbourhoods in the periphery of Rotterdam could be designed for slow traffic and local activity. I do this by implementing a certain concept, the 15-Minute City, in a multitude of environments, the peripheral neighbourhoods of Rotterdam, which results in an understanding of the stretch of the concept and the meaning for the city. Key themes are accessibility, density and diversity. Through scenario construction, two future 15-minute cities are explored, resulting in a design strategy for the future urban rhythm of peri-urban areas.

15-minute city
peri urban areas
Rotterdam
strategic urban project

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Student theses

master thesis

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