Creating Safe Space: Enhancing neighborhood safety in Hillesluis, Rotterdam South through spatial design

Several areas in the Netherlands are considered vulnerable. These areas have poor livability and safety. Creating safe space is about improving the perceived safety and livability in neighborhoods by designing spatial interventions. One of these vulnerable areas is Rotterdam South. In Rotterdam South, Hillesluis is perceived by the inhabitants...

The Power of Imperfection: China-Ethiopia Industrial Parks as the Medium for Local Vitalization: The Case of Eastern Industry Zone, Dukem, Ethiopia

Exchanges between China and Africa involving political, economic, scientific and cultural aspects have a long history and are constantly updated according to the practical needs of both sides. The high degree of complementarity has led to China-Africa deepening cooperation, which has been accompanied by the emergence of new industrial clusters,...

Building Individuals: Rethinking Urban Design in light of the Digital Transition

Our world is going through several transitions at the time of writing. One of them is the digital transition. The digital transition changes the way we interact with each other, it gives us new ways to learn, new ways to work. It changes how society functions on a global scale. The digital transition makes people more individualised. It means...

Juxtaposition of realities in transformation areas: Case NDSM Amsterdam

The shortage of housing stock and the deindustrialization of cities have rendered many areas prone to severe transformations. Many sites across the<br/>country have been characterized as transformation areas. In an effort to battle the housing crisis, urban redevelopment processes have been initiated or are under examination for a plethora of...

THEIR FORTRESS: The regeneration of migrant laneways from both social and spatial perspectives

<br/>The main object of this study is the migrant laneway, which refers to the old community in the city center that attracts migrant workers because of its low rent and good location. This kind of community in urgent need of renewal contains three aspects: spatial, social and the process of renewal. This study regards these three aspects as the...

Reimagining the New Density in Apartment Urbanism: The conflicted social and economic space of Apartment Complexes in Seoul, Korea

Seoul, the capital city of Republic of Korea, has gone through rapid and compressed growth since 1960s as a response to reconstructing the city after the devastating crisis of Korean War. In part of facilitate the development, the national government has actively adopted the form of apartment under supportive national policies and planning...

Migrated Space Contrasts

Space for possible interaction in Matonge, Bruxelles.

Democratic landscape, an adaptive collaborative approach to regional urban planning

This graduation project focuses on one of our government's important tasks: spatial planning. Recent events have shown us that our current planning system has become insufficient: it is unable to cope with our rapidly changing society. Research on new and adaptive forms of collaborative planning is conducted. Forms that can be used alongside...

Street Smart: A Social Learning Perspective on the Restructuring of Oud-Charlois

The graduation process Street Smart focuses on the problems prevalent in problem neighbourhoods, particularly those that affect young people. By creating a link between the social sciences and urbanism, this projects aims to create socio-spatial interventions that target both the social and spatial dimension of the problems at play. This...

Research on how to diversify microrayon: A pattern language for user-control facilitating urban design in large postwar estates