Cauliflower Revisited: The regeneration of cauliflower neighbourhoods using an environment -behaviour approach

This graduation research uses an environment-behaviour approach to regenerate cauliflower neighbourhoods (bloemkoolwijken). This was applied to Kesteren (part of compostie cauliflower neighbourhood the Haagse Beemden, Breda). The theoretical framework focusses on aspect such as: liveability, public space, environment-behaviour, spatial cognition...

Framed Space vs. Free Space

The graduation project ‘Framed space vs. Free space’ is about the differences between space free to plan by the user and controlled space by authorities in urban and landscape design. These are degrees of control on different scales. Scales in urbanism are assigned to get a grip on the complexity of the city, to understand the processes and...

Re-activating the inner-city fringe: Towards sustainable transformation of inner city neighbourhoods to reactivate urban core.

This study fundamentally intends to reflect the process of urban renewal during the period 1974-1993, based on the principle of ‘Building for the neighbourhood'.This was aimed at improving housing quality,living condition and providing affordable social housings to low-income groups.That is to say that not only enhancing physical conditions but...

Delfzijl 2030: WADerPROOF

Delfzijl 2030 WADerPROOF; A graduation thesis separated in two parts: [1] WADerPROOF; a spatial plan to combine the problematic of social decline and flood management in a spatial concept for the town of Delfzijl. [2] Zoet, Zout & Siel; a urban plan with the intention to use the identity of Delfzijl -the sea dike- for the urban regeneration of...

|RE|InfraStructured: Urban regeneration by integrating infrastructural residual space

This thesis holds a study on infrastructural residual space, space that is residual to the development of big scale infrastructure. By a desire to place these infrastructure as efficient as possible, meaning the trough flow and the building cost/time, these are constructed (location and dimension) without any concern to its adjacent context. The...

Campus for City / City for Campus

Connecting, among university campuses & between campuses and the city of Shanghai.

From Rotterdam Center to Good City Life