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Anzolin, Emma (author)My graduation project [Untitled] re-establishing urban dialogues in complex cityscapes, investigates the impact of qualitative public spaces in disorienting urban contexts. Taking as a case study Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, the research understands the noise that characterises fragmented cities not strictly in terms of acoustic...master thesis 2020
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Stegeman, Angelique (author)Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country that has endured many wars, through many different rules. The Yugoslav wars from 1991-1996 still linger in Mostar today, as we find a ‘divided city’, which is mostly enforced through institutions that ethnically divide public buildings. At the same time, citizens find this unnecessary and consider Mostar as ...master thesis 2019
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Qi, Meihui (author)The graduation project “The palace” expands upon the notion of designing "City hall of Brussels." The studio raises questions on the relationship between the public realm and political space. It led our in-depth study of various forms of the town halls and public buildings that have evolved throughout history. It questions the nature of ...master thesis 2020
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Remmerswaal, D.J.M. (author)Privatization of public space has some immediate commercial purposes. Buying the right on return on the way the urban space is maintained and managed can be profitable to private parties when an area accommodates many (permanent) commercial and/or residential users in combination with little public space. When there is little profit, private...master thesis 2010
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Ringoir, Vincent (author)Public space in Manhattan is mainly generated through a mechanism called Privately Owned Public Spaces, shortly POPS, allowing developers to construct taller buildings in exchange for the provision of public space. As a result of this incentivizing mechanism there are countless manifestations of public private contradiction in the city of New...master thesis 2020
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Domian, Aleksandra (author)The design assignment is a response for a need of a public physical space that can inhabit 22nd century community. “The Playhouse” is a new type of community centre where people can spend their free time, interact with each other, develop their hobbies, stimulate their creativity, and seek out new goals and experiences.The question of the role...master thesis 2019
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Seminario Thulin, Andres (author)Urban flooding is a problem faced by many mayor cities around the world nowadays. That is the case of several areas of the Greater Miami Area. Rapid urbanization and the depletion of natural buffer zones that used to storage rain water, added to climate change effects, specifically the increase of heavy rainfalls and sea level rise have only...master thesis 2019
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Tjong-Ayong, Joseph (author)Public spaces are the places where people come together in the physical environment. They are precious as they have in them the possibility of bringing together people with different cultures and backgrounds. In some cases, however these important spots within our cities are not designed to maximize their capacity for human exploration. As seen...master thesis 2020
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Oldenkamp, Lize (author)The world we live in is more and more a digital world and the number of people having access to digital communication technologies is growing rapidly. This integration of digital technologies into everyday life is what is called the digitalization process (IGI Global dictionary, 2018). It is a process that can be seen as a long-term societal...master thesis 2020
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Thyagarajan, Bhavna (author)This Graduation project is an attempt to<br/>understand how a “human dimension” approach to<br/>landscape architecture can become a tool to invent<br/>spaces for our future cities and to design spaces of<br/>inclusion.master thesis 2017
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Piazzo, Gabriele (author)In the coming 20 years, the city centre of Rotterdam will face a new wave of constructions, with the goal of densify the area with new 50.000 dwellings before the 2040, converting the city centre towards a more residential and international character. This up-coming densification of Rotterdam, led by the high-rise strategy developed by the...master thesis 2021
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Bernabela, Rinus (author)This gradation project deals with the adaptive reuse of the vacant heritage V&D department store in Haarlem. Revitalizing the obsolete. Now that these buildings need a transformation, they also need to be more open to the public in order to remain as prominent as they once were. The project is about creating a new mixed-use hub in the city...master thesis 2021
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Redekop-van der Meulen, Élan (author)Though often successful in geopolitical and economical terms, the tendency to engineer infrastructures for ‘single purpose’ often resulted in disrupted landscapes and erasure of cultural and natural values (Strang 1996). Besides this, Tokyo deals with a wide range of problematiques, from the threat of earthquakes destroying its expressways and...master thesis 2017
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Jacobs, Milenka (author)To revitalise the modern urban public spaces in the war affected areas of Rotterdam, this project uses the concept of 'play'. Play can be an effective method to deal with the diversity of actors that make use of public space today. By creating a common (play) ground - imaginary space in the designprocess; and mysterious interactive experiences...master thesis 2017
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Verbruggen, Koen (author)Policymakers and literature have expressed the need for a visual and tangible manner of mapping circular value, the progress towards a fully circular economy and the presence of materials (material passport) in public space. Several initiatives exist for the measurement of circular progress. However, none have explicitly aimed towards the urban...master thesis 2019
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Valente, Yara (author)Society is stuck in daily routines, led by social norms and conventions. Often we are unaware of this, while life can be much richter if we would subvert from these routines every once in a while. These routines prevent us from seeing everything that there is. Our expectations need to be subverted. <br/><br/>Usually it is reserved for artists to...master thesis 2019
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Koelmans, Robin (author)Public transportation is on the rise due to increasing ecological concerns, a more efficient use of space and an improved city-planning featuring transport oriented development (TOD). As a result, new modalities emerge and stations are getting busier which can lead to a narrow design focus on the nodal function of the station, neglecting other...master thesis 2022
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Schaafsma, Bonnie (author)Sports are moving away from the city centre. This is happening despite a growing need for sports, especially among young people. While sports can help create a healthy city through encouraging interaction with their surroundings and the city, they also positively affect the social cohesion of neighbourhoods. The need for sports is specifically...master thesis 2019
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Groeneveld, M.P. (author)Design of infrastructural node ZuidasDok in Amsterdam's Zuidas, which organizes the different flows of traffic, while offering freedoms for the pedestrian. The historical Zuidelijke Wandelweg that got demolished when the ground got prepared to construct Zuidas and Buitenveldert, is transformed and rebuilt and is now part of the public domain of...master thesis 2015
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Del Grandi, Isabella (author)This graduation project is the result of the ambition of generating a public intervention in an extremely complex and challenging environment, translating in a space of mediation between different - social and morphological - realities, able to embrace urban fact in all its facets and contradictions.master thesis 2017