In-Between Nature: Reconsidering Design Practices for Territories In-Between from a Social-Ecological Perspective

During past decades, Territories in-Between (TiB) have gained increased attention among researchers in the field of urban planning and design. TiB are often considered to be underused, lack spatial quality and are under mounting pressure of urban densification. However, the rich diversity of land uses and abundance of semi-open spaces in the TiB...

In Between Nature: Nature-based placemaking for Rotterdam's territories in-between

Territories in-between (TiB) have gained increased attention the past decades among researchers in the field of urban planning and design. These territories are identified as territories somewhere in-between the urban and rural. Typical land uses in the TiB are warehouses, sport complexes, allotment gardens and small-scale industrial activities....

La Petite Ceinture: Reanimating the Urban Fringe

With the constant urge for progress that characterizes our society, there are bound to be some casualties. Disused and forgotten by the people not immediately involved with them, post-industrial areas are often left vacated and are quickly falling into ruin. Old factories, empty shopping malls, abandoned villages and creepy hospitals litter the...

A New Image Between City and Land: Landscape Structures Reconnected in the Urban Fringe of East Utrecht

A Story of Three: A Narrative Approach to Reading Atmosphere and Making Place

This article explores a site-specific, narrative approach to placemaking in order to reveal ways of reading and reacting to spatial atmospheres. The contribution presents an MSc Architecture project that results in the design of three particular places on the fringes of the Dutch urban landscape by means of utilizing a<br/>narrative approach to...

Beyond the Edge: Complexity Approach to Urban Fringes

After Mumbai, Pune is the second largest city in the state of Maharashtra. With the city’s growing popularity its urban population is expected to double in coming 20 years; while the area governed by Pune planning authorities will double in next five years. The current planning approach is based on differentiated land use which focuses on...

The Patchwork metropolis

Adieu compact city As stated by Jan Neutelings, in a complex area like the Randstad conurbation the model of compact city based on the romantic polarity between a paradisal Arcadia and a megalomaniac metropolis has long been inadequate for interpreting the reality of the situation. The dissolution of the old European town seems to be...

The land-in-between

The land-in-between. A spatial investigation on the future transformation of the rural-urban fringe, (using the case of) the A4/Vlietzone, The Hague.