Voting with one's feet: Unraveling urban centers attraction using visiting frequency

Urban and regional areas worldwide exhibit a complex and uneven distribution of activities with certain areas attracting more people during different time periods. In this study we systemically classify different parts of the urban area which are most attractive as measured by their ability to attract visitors. A weekly visiting profile is...

Identifying Urban structure based on transit-oriented development

The fast development of urbanization has led to imbalances in cities, causing congestion, pollution, and urban sprawl. In response to the growing concern over the distribution of demand and supply, a more coordinated urban structure is addressed in comprehensive planning processes. In this study, we attempt to identify urban structure using a...

Exploring Bluefields: Designing the Banter See as an operative landscape structure

During my study of landscape architecture, I am always looking for opportunities how landscape infrastructure as the strongest approach to RE-activate the potential of derelict areas. Fascinated by existing precedent projects which are using a landscape approach to transform derelict areas into operative landscapes such as High Line Park,...

Experimental Modelling for Allocating Recovery Facilities in the Metropolis: Integrated research between Circular Economy and Urban Spatial Structure

The primary aim of this project is to investigate an approach to integrate the study of CE with urban spatial structure, then form a tool to assist the procedure of decision-making by analyzing empirical data.

Building Bangalore’s Competitive Advantage: A case for collaboration between Corporations and the City

Cities are the backbone of the economy in most countries, serving the corporations they house and enjoying the benefits of their business. They are also a beacon for many who flock to these urban areas in the hope of better employment opportunities and quality of life. Cities are thus constantly growing and evolving in an effort to create a...

‘A valuable contrast, Paraisópolis - Morumbi. A search for a cohesive socio-morphological urban structure to strategically reinforce the municipal urbanization process of Paraisópolis.’

Central places and modality environments: An historical architecture of urban places

Creative with History: Creative industry in the inner-city of Delft

Problem statement: In Delft is a high demand for living and workspace for the creative industry. Between 2014 and 2020 2,400m² workspace must annually be realized to meet the demand of the creative industry, this is not achievable without business centres or incubators (Louters Bureau, 2008). According to Florida's theory is creativity and...

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...

Reshaping Banda Aceh: Planning a better city in coping with future hazard of tsunami

In 26 December 2006, a magnitude 8.9R earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean at South of Sumatra island of Indonesia. The intense earthquake lasted for several minutes, triggering a tsunami that swept most of the coastline of the Aceh province in Indonesia, as well as other countries such as India, Sri Lanka and Thailand. It’s believed to be...

Spatial Justice for an Open City

The main objective of this project is to combat social exclusion in Greater Paris urban area, while the French government is keen on new strategies for transportation and densification to make a Greater Paris. This project turns its orientation to the social question. An important question that is either scarcely been put into consideration by...

Measuring the degree of street vitality in excavated towns: How can macro and micro spatial analyses tools contribute to understandings on the spatial organization of urban life in Pompeii?

The aim of this contribution is to show how it is possible to indicate degrees of street life and economical attractiveness in excavated towns through micro and macro spatial configurative analyses. When applying these tools on excavated sites, socio-economic empirical knowledge from a present urban context are required. Combining these with the...

Acting across scales: Describing urban surfaces as technical 'fields of action'

The relation between the global and the local is the traditional concern of space syntax. A ‘form’ and a ‘structure’ of urban fabrics can be represented in images and graph measures using space syntax techniques and these images and measures correlate with observations of how people use and organize those urban fabrics. The implication is that...