Downtown is rising up! The revitalization of the city centre of Hengelo

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Abstract

Emptiness of retail floor space is a well known phenomenon in todays real life. In this thesis a programmatic intervention is suggested of how to reorganise the retail function of the city centre of Hengelo in order to diminish the amout of emptiness. Next to this new program typologies are introduced for the location so also suggestions are given of what can be done when changes are made in the main program element of a city centre.