Quality of life: The role of heritage

Since the 19th century, the effect of the urban environment on the quality of life has been increasingly researched by spatial environment related disciplines. The discipline of urban planning has particularly focused on the negative values and the discipline of heritage on the positive values of the existing urban environment. Over the years...

Densification of Amsterdam

Amsterdam is growing fast, faster than the rest of the Netherlands. This leads to many challenges such as housing shortage and high pressure on space and amenities. For its competitiveness it important that Amsterdam keeps developing. However, it is often considered to be full. This study will show that there is a lot of space unused in the city...

Enhancing subjective quality of life through self-determination theory: Flourishing Intrinsic Motivation of people with low objective factor of QOL In Pursuing a Better Employment

Study towards subjective factor of QOL in developing countries is being underdeveloped. Moreover, QOL enhancements in developing countries are mostly focused on and through its objective factor. This might due to the correlated subjective factor to objective factor within the poor objective factor of QOL context. Those solutions considered as...

The Academy of Builders: Architecture as an action for The Good Life

The garden of delights and a panopticon prison are very similar actually: being inside walls, being protected, is central. Many archaic ideas of happiness are depicted in enclosed safe spaces. That idea presupposes that the outside is a place of danger and corruption and the inside is safe and good, also morally good, where virtue resides and...

Design for Social Impact in the Afrikaanderwijk - welding your way into neighbourhood attachment

This graduation project is aimed at improving the liveability of the Afrikaanderwijk by using the Design for Social Impact [DSI] method. Within the Netherlands, there is a large number of post war suburbs that face an accumulation of problems such as a high unemployment rate, neglected housing facilities, crime and a lack of social networks or...

Emotion toolkit to improve the quality of life of cancer patients

A breast cancer diagnosis and undergoing cancer treatment is often obtrusive into someone’s life. Breast cancer patients are facing an uncertain future and are dealing with side-effects of treatment. Over the years, many studies have been executed to map the emotional responses and the assessment of their ‘Quality of Life’ (QoL) over time....