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den Haan, Bernice (author)
Limited quantitative research exists on the effects of individual traffic management on four liveability aspects: travel time, air quality, noise, and accident risk. The aim of this research is to get an insight in how these effects on liveability can be improved using ITM, given road users willingness to comply with given advice. Literature...
master thesis 2020
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Suresh, Kavya (author)
Chennai, a historical seaside city on the southern coast of India, has undergone extensive urbanisation ever since the postcolonial economic reform of the nineties. Mismanaged urban growth that predominantly prioritises economic development has led to a situation of congestion, lack of public space and forgotten ecological networks in the city....
master thesis 2020
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Reinink, Sebastien (author)
This research focuses on the relation between the compact city and urban life. Literature suggests that a holistic approach to further compacting a city means also integrating urban life qualities. This is currently lacking in Western European practice due to pragmatism, decentralisation and neo-liberal plot-led development. This while both...
master thesis 2020
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van Genuchten, Eva (author)
The Dutch government has decentralised many welfare state tasks to municipalities, because social support is best given at a local level, close to the people who need the support (Rijksoverheid, n.d.). However, for Dutch municipalities this means more responsibilities with less resources and consequently a different, more collaborative way of...
master thesis 2018
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Speulman, Manon (author)
Food is a vital part of our lives and throughout history it has shaped our cities. However, our current agricultural practices exhaust our natural environment and are threatened by climate change. Next to that, the design of our food system is highly susceptible to global instabilities. With the population only increasing and more people living...
master thesis 2023
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Huang, Wanying (author)
How to improve the residents living quality while developing tourism in a historical inner city neighbourhood? With its profound historical development and events, Paris has been shaped as a super glorious political centre, the most attractive tourist destination and the most beautiful city in the world. The tourism industry promised the...
master thesis 2019
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Badu-Sampene, Malcolm (author)
It is no secret that (asset)managers are currently dealing with a difficult task to maintain and improve the quality of their assets. The main reason for this urgency is the change of use and the end of lifespan of these assets. This is especially the case regarding the inner-city quay walls. These quay walls are usually owned and managed by...
master thesis 2019
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Dieleman, I.M. (author)
It is expected more cities in Europe are going to encounter shrinkage because of changing demographics. Shrinkage can also occur because of a negative migration balance. When a city shrinks, municipalities take measures on the urban hardware, software and mindware in order to maintain the liveability for the remaining residents. This research...
master thesis 2016
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Ling, Wenqian (author)
The general problem of the thesis project is the issue of declining liveability of old neighbourhood area and the lost place identity of Shao City. To be more specific, the problem focus is the fractured social-spatial network between the old neighbourhood and the area for new social class like Kuanzhai Alley & gated communities with...
master thesis 2019
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Stuyt, Mae-Ling (author)
What is the future of urban industrial land? This is a challenge urban design and planning field has only just started to undertake. Currently, the differentiation between the urban core as the front stage zone for human residence and entertainment versus the rural periphery as the backstage zone for production, logistics and energy harvesting...
master thesis 2020
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Leltz, Anne (author)
This project answers the research question “How can we design with climate adaptation measures in existing neighborhoods in the Netherlands while respecting other aspects of sustainable development?” The methods used to carry out the research are mixed methods. Both deductive and inductive research is done. Theory describes the problem, and...
master thesis 2021
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Enneking, Guusje (author)
This project tries to, inspired by the heavily quantified and confined ways of assessing "liveability" in policy documents, come up with a different way of reading the city. In this project, I aimed to explore this reading within the unit of the street, to see how focusing on a single street, a section of the city, could result in valuable broad...
master thesis 2022
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Dillon Peynado, Thomas (author)
We have entered the epoch of the Anthropocene. Now with humanity itself being a sizeable force of nature, we can no longer ignore the impact we have on the planet’s systems, as it is also increasingly impacting our societies, through climate change. This is occurring while major cities are still experiencing an increase in population. Amsterdam...
master thesis 2020
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Ruijter, Rada (author)
This thesis studies the reasons why certain areas in the city of Almere Haven are described by inhabitants as 'unliveable' en researches strategies to make them 'liveable'.
master thesis 2020
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Maassen, Denise (author)
Many neighbourhoods that comprise the Western Garden Cities of Amsterdam are struggling with a low liveability. Their spacious layout however, offers great potential for densification within the city borders. My project, the Garden-Fresh City, shows an approach that both tackles issues with liveability and fulfills this densification potential...
master thesis 2021
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Boendermaker, Joaquim (author)
The neighborhood of Nieuwland, located in Schiedam, Zuid-Holland is one example of the many post-war neighborhoods the Netherlands offers. It formed the extension of Schiedam’s city center and consisted of a clear functionalist lay-out upon its completion in 1965, characterized by monotony, frugal architecture, and a clear separation of...
master thesis 2023
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Disco, M.C. (author)
master thesis 2017
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Obeid, Rebwar (author)
HOPTILLE 2.0, a project aiming to improve the liveability of the neighbourhood Hoptille in Amsterdam. The research is based on literature study of Jane Jacobs and Jan Gehl, as well as, interviews with the residents of the neighbourhood. The main outcomes of the research that were used for the design, focused on the keyword list of Jan Gehl and...
master thesis 2021
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Sobieraj, Daniel Sobieraj (author)
Food has played an important role in shaping our metropolitan regions, such as Westland in South Holland, The Netherlands. The industrialisation and globalisation of agriculture in Westland has prioritised economy and efficiency, creating issues of liveability and sustainability. The market-driven expansion of the agri-food industry has...
master thesis 2021
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Versteeg, Nando (author)
The Netherlands is dealing with two problems. The first is a large housing crisis. Housing is unavailable, unaffordable and lacking in quality and perfomance. There is also a liveability crisis. While the overall liveability score in The Netherlands has been going up in the last two decades, the neighborhood that score the worst have not been...
master thesis 2023
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