Towards a DiverCity

The ‘Arrival City’ (Saunders, 2010) describes a multicultural environment in Europe that creates opportunities and challenges at the same time (Wood, 2009). Sure enough, segregated, deprived neighbourhoods are a common outcome of this phenomenon. Often unplanned and uncontrolled social expansion characterised by primarily low-rent neighbourhoods...

Urban acupuncture: Creating a method to strategically apply and design small scale interventions

How can small scale spatial interventions in public space, by means of citizen participation, strategically contribute to regenerate a deprived neighbourhood in the Netherlands? The main objective of this project was to search for an innovative method for the regeneration of public space by strategically applied and designed small scale...