Repaving the path towards arrival: An alternative redevelopment strategy supporting migrants’ small business for urban villages in peripheral Shenzhen

This thesis proposes an alternative redevelopment strategy for urban villages in the peripheral districts of Shenzhen, China. It focuses on improving spatial conditions supporting migrants' small businesses, as a means to support their social mobility. Increasing the street integration, walkability and street use diversity are the key actions of...

Slowing Down ´Shenzhen Speed´

Shenzhen is only 30 years old, and was decided to be the first Special Economic Zone (SEZ) of China. This decision had great influence on the urbanization of Shenzhen, because it has seen one of the fastest growth rates of cities in the world, explaining the saying developing in ´Shenzhen Speed’. This thesis is a research about what it means for...

Cultivation of the urban village

Because of a failure to recognize the stepping-stone role of the villages for the migrants, the informally organized urban villages are not integrated into the urban structure of the municipal plan. In order to address this question the first section aims to develop a framework in order to understand and describe informal development in Shenzhen...

Is integration and empowerment of the excluded needed?

A review on the socio-spatial integration and empowerment of (arriving) migrants and other disadvantaged groups in urban restructuring plans in the Netherlands.