Designing cycle-attractiveness

This study responds to cities in the world focussing more and more on implementing a bicycle infrastructure. The bicycle infrastructure is often envisioned to make the city more attractive for the people (again), however a lot of the criteria to design for the bicycle infrastructure are left vague and (too) open for interpretation as ...

Bridging Rotterdam: A bridge is more

From Infrastructure to Flowscape: The Houtribdijk as an operative landscape structure

The theme of the landscape architecture graduation lab is “Flowscape”. It states the landscape infrastructure is not only a technical structure but also a carrier of natural and urban processes. It is proposed to solve the environmental problems and adapt to the surroundings as well as providing the appropriate environmental conditions for the...

Inclusive Infrastructure: Large-scale projects and the consequences for urban development and social justice in the city of Fortaleza

Looking Through the “Other” City: How to activate the socio-spatial connection within an heterotopic framework looking through the case of Durban’s Warwick Junction

The specific context of Durban touches global issues like the crowded, inconvenient shanty towns, the degradation of the suburbs and the implications of the urban sprawl in the cities. The same situations when neighborhoods turn upside down, city centers get abandoned or even the constant shifts of the social functions are happening everywhere...

Infrastructure - Connecting barriers

Urban design and planning is a profession that requires looking at different scale levels and how these interact with each other. Urban designers or planners often try to connect different areas with each other because they believe that this makes the connected areas stronger. This connection on the large scale is made by large-scale...

Los Angeles: The metropolis and five stages of modernity

‘the metropolis and five stages of modernity’ is an explorative research on contemporary ecologies and the historic (re)-emergence of public domain, infrastructure and urban form in Los Angeles

Bucharest 2025: A new paradigm

Bucharest is an urban palimpsest, its spatial characteristics bearing the trace of all ideological changes within its urban fabric. Its accelerated development in two stages (1850s- 1930s and 1950s-1989) generated a superposition of fragmented urban projects (signs of various stages of modernity) that were never finished. These stages in its...

Landing on the coast: Infrastructure and urbanisation

Over the road pattern of the Roman Herculean Road, that ties Carteia and Malaga with Rome, the old national N340 road has allowed to conduct and distribute a constant flux of investments that arrived with the opening of the airport of Malaga and the possibility of arrival of massive sun and beach tourism. In a few years, due to the omission of...

Unfolding urban publicness

The research focused on the identification of alternative public places in the contemporary city, especially regarding their possible connections with the urban mobility system and the urban domains constituted by mobile people that continuously cross the contemporary city with a multiplicity of flows coming from the most different scales. The...

MILE END CIRCUS: Exploring A New Centrality For East Enders towards Social Integration in the Post Olympic Age

The Project is started with the doubt whether the Olympic Games will bring benefits not only to the city but also to the locals. In order to promote the urban development towards social integration to achieve the mayor's vision of London that a global city with economic growth, social inclusivity and improved environment in the five deprivest...

The Case of Jakarta: A City with an Isolated Bus Rapid Transit: formulating a design strategy to establish an integrated transit oriented development in Jakarta using the existing bus rapid transit system

Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia, a developed country in the Southeast Asia. With the population of 23 million, Jakarta and the surrounding area is the 4th largest urban area in the world. As the result, Jakarta suffers from inadequate facility such as severe traffic jams caused by too much commuting from areas around Jakarta, and air...