Le Corbusier’s modernist vision: creating a universal city plan: A Comparative Evaluation of Le Corbusier’s Urban Designs for Paris and Chandigarh

This study compares Le Corbusier’s urban plans for Chandigarh with Paris, highlighting the mod-ernist principles he applied and the design concept’s universality. This study aims to investigate the degree to which the architect’s concept of universal urban planning may be implemented in various metropolitan settings, while examining the ways in...

A Multifunctional Experiment on Newly Built Land: Construction of a multifunctional centre within the historical context and developmental aspirations of Flevoland

This thesis aims to delve into the historical connections between the establishment of Flevoland, the unique imperative for a multifunctional centre, and the architectural marvel that is “De Meerpaal” in Dronten. The exploration seeks to understand the motivations behind Flevoland’s desire for such a centre, how it led to architect Frank van...

The study of development of public-participation in housing practice under changing socio-economic, political and urban environment in Amsterdam, from Dutch Golden Age to contemporary period: AR2A011 Architectural History Thesis (2022/23 Q3)

Public-participation in housing practice not only happens with architectural participatory notion, instead it was already exercised differently in the history of Amsterdam according to the governmental urban planning visions. To provide more insight for contemporary participatory practice, instead of interpreting architectural public...

The Housing Rehabilitation of the 1922 Asia Minor refugees in Athens and Piraeus

The fragmented urban landscape of the metropolitan area of Athen and Piraeus with its local specificities is strongly related to demographic flows. The arrival of more than 220.000 refugees in the metropolitan area of Athens and Piraeus after the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the population exchange that followed the Treaty of Lausanne posed the...

Stacking Stories to Upgrade the City: The Role of High-rise Buildings in Rotterdam

With the exponential growth of high-rise buildings in Rotterdam over the past decades the city is now the 10th highest city in Europe. The role that high-rise plays in the city of Rotterdam has been developing throughout the years and started becoming more important. Through literature and municipal archival research, the significance of high...

Context, birth and regeneration strategies for distressed urban areas: four case studies on global parallels and differences

Marginalised, dilapidated, deprived, often centres of crime, poor living conditions and even poorer life prospects. It is common knowledge that this is the reality of many urban areas in numerous mega cities and not only. Each developing country has struggled with uncontrolled urban sprawl in the rapid urbanization processes that commenced with...

How to explain sustainability: the future of urban planning researched through health

The attempts made in history to design livable sustainable neighborhoods, have created dependency instead on motorized transportation and have increased the pressure of the city, leading to unsustainable environments and causing global climate change. To accomplish sustainability we introduce a new vision to explain what sustainability means in...