Recycling the woonerf: A testcase for a circular woonerf

Now almost 50 years old, the woonerf is challenged with social and technical deterioration, poor energy performance, misalignment of demographics and typology and an overall negative image. Because the housing stock consists of 20% of woonerf residents, there is considerable reason to seek for a solution to make this type of neighbourhood future...

Potential Economies using big data to analyse urban competitiveness of new urban communities: a case study on socio-economic indicators in Egypt

Orthodox economic models often linked the size of cities to their economies. However, this changed through the last quarter of the 20th century; cities grew bigger, side by side to unemployment, inflation and falling wages and productivity (Davis, 2006). In Egypt, urban migration was considered the root of the city’s density. In the seventies,...

Public space for livable neighbourhoods: How generic spatial interventions can realize conditions for the development of public space to accomplish a dureable living environment in specific urban living areas

The report is an investigation into the possibilities of using generic methods to achieve certain levels of quality for public space, to stimulate, regulate but most of all conditionate spatial, social and economical developments. These developments should result in a more livable living environment.