Revisited Composition: Implementation Strategy for Mobility Based Development in Bandung City, Indonesia

As of today, most of the world’s population is living in urban areas. A lot of people is either migrating or commuting to the city every day. Urban sprawl in many cities in the world tends to trigger severe urban mobility challenges because the development is rarely supported by adequate infrastructure. In addition, the monocentric...

An adaptive framework for the Houston Galveston Bay Region

Plant of plants - Making green space multifunctional in urban and landscape areas of Amsterdam Noord

This paper is a Master thesis that investigates the potentials of spatial design in the battle against accelerated climate change. As such, it aims to solve related global issues (deterioration of resources, overconsumption, wasteful consumption) with tools that are in strong physical, functional or habitual connections with their natural and...

Height references of CityGML LOD1 buildings and their influence on applications

The geometry of the LOD1 block model of CityGML may be represented in a multitude of valid variants, e.g. it may represent individual buildings or aggregated blocks. The geometric representations within each of these, such as the reference of the footprint of a building, are not standardised in CityGML and are not informed in the metadata. The...

Reclaiming open space in New Belgrade: A case study of designing for local demands via means of landscape architecture.

Open space are not defined their users as the residents in New Belgrade in socialist and market-driven urbanism. So there’s a disconnection between people’s real demands and the space. The portion of landscape architecture will be focused on public interests to make a livable urban environment. An urban landscape framework will be established to...

Integration Across Railway: Integrate the Backside Surrounding of Xi'an Central Station to the City as a Whole and Towards the Historic Urban Center

The aim of this thesis is to improve the central station area in Xi'an, China, by crossing the barrier of railway, the busy road and the city wall, to connect the two sides that having specific identities in different parts.

The new life in old town Surabaya: Preserving the Urban Heritage through Space Revitalization

Old Town Surabaya is deteriorating due to the decentralization policy in 1920, where it had shifted the center of Surabaya from Old Town. Thus the economic activities in areas were declining and it triggered peoples to move out from Old Town. In addition, the Industrial Zone Allotment Policy in mid of 70’s had limited the industry expansion in...

Measuring and observing pedestrian activity; tracking pedestrians in Norwich, Rouen and Koblenz

In Toronto and Melbourne I presented the development of a method to track pedestrians using GPS. Finally, in June and October 2007 pedestrians visiting the historic city centres of Norwich, Rouen and Koblenz were monitored. In total over 1300 pedestrians were observed using GPS technology. With a questionnaire we were able to collect additional...

Etnisch ondernemerschap en de stadsvernieuwing

Dit rapport is het resultaat van een onderzoek naar de invloed van stadsvernieuwing op de ontwikkelingen binnen het etnisch ondernemerschap in de Haagse Schilderswijk. Het blijken met name turkse en marokkaanse ondernemingen te zijn die getroffen worden door een proces van (koude) sanering, veroorzaakt door een stadsvernieuwingsbeleid en de...