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Blok, Milou (author)
The outcome of constantly striving for economic growth and making a profit has led to a city in which every building is seen as a product. Power, ownership, and mass tourism are taking over the city, exacerbating the housing shortage and making the housing prices rise to an unprecedented height. As a result, inhabitants are being pushed out of...
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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...
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Ramaiah Perumalsamy, Ganesh Babu (author)
If we denounce neoliberal ideology and the capitalist order of today’s cities as value generating machines, what would the new order be? An integral part of Amsterdam’s emergence as a just city was the interaction between radical resident movements and national housing policy that was designed to solve the housing shortage through massive...
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quattri, elena (author)
The Craft Huis reimagined what a hotel is in the Doughnut Economy of Amsterdam. As The European tourist capital, Amsterdam has been afflicted by social segregation and ecological damage, particularly the historic centre. The future hotel of Amsterdam, The Craft Huis, is designed as the place where tourists can learn from and live with local...
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Bruins Slot, Loes (author)
The project wishes to provide a case study in the way that the natural world can be integrated within the city life. The project site is located in Amsterdam at the island Uilenburg. Where it takes into account the doughnut economics model to create a social and ecological balance in the city. The existing buildings together with the newly...
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Hou, Zhe (author)
With the development of the social economy, the traditional urban work and rest pattern of working during the day and resting at night has gradually changed. The night-time economy has become a new engine for urban regeneration, economic growth and cultural creation.The growth of tourism in Amsterdam has also benefited from its inclusive and...
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Siupik, Michał (author)
Food and agricultural land become scarce, additionally farming industry’s water consumption, carbon emissions and land use are growing. Currently, the consumption of animal and processed products is high. This has a negative influence on public health and the environment. In parallel, the growing vacancy in Dutch cities creates an opportunity to...
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Jeronimus, Roos (author)
Amsterdam is a rapidly growing city with a high demand for new homes. Research indicates different initiatives and processes over the last years to densify the city and enhance the liveability in its neighborhoods. However, time has shown the injustice accompanying these proposals and the situation in several neighborhoods worsened over the last...
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Świda, Sara (author)
The project seeks to stabilise and reverse the degradation of the pier’s walls so it remains available to its users. The structure acts as a stabilizer for this piece of land, so as not to let it disappear.<br/>The light structure takes inspiration from a bird perched on a branch, a metaphor for young Amsterdammer’s searching for their place in...
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Nurhadi Nugraha, Nurhadi (author)
Clipping Kampung aims to improve the resilience of Hoptille neighbourhood in Amsterdam based on lessons learned from Indonesian Kampung. At least, two main qualities from Kampung that are useful for Hoptille’s resilience problem have been identified: adaptability and transformability. The Kampung has a quality to be more adaptable due to its...
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Lichtenveldt, Stefan (author)
This project explores a residential building from 1982 that can be found in Amsterdam. Using several interviews and research into the potential heritage values of the building a transformation is proposed.
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Louwerens, Cornee (author)
This graduation thesis was executed within the studio New Heritage in which the question was raised whether postmodern architecture can be valued as heritage. Multiple postmodern neighbourhoods suffer from a stigma. Outsiders have a negative image where insiders are much more positive about their neighbourhood. This master thesis focusses on the...
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Latour, Sophie (author)
Green spaces are of great relevance today as climate change and the current pandemic highlight the need for more nature in the urban realm. The environmental, psychological and economical benefits of green space in rapid urban densification is clearly evident and increasingly, green is (re)introduced in cities. Private, public or collective...
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van der Scheer, Zwaan (author)
Stegen hebben voor lange tijd een negatief imago gehad, dit is nu echter aan het veranderen. In deze scriptie zal onderzoek gedaan worden naar wat de invloed van stegen op de leefomgeving van steden is geweest en hoe deze zich zal ontwikkelen. Hoe stegen in Amsterdam zijn ontstaan verschilt per steeg, maar vooral per periode. De eerste stegen...
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van Vliet, Kimberly (author)
Concluderend is het antwoord op de onderzoeksvraag ‘Wat zijn overeenkomsten en verschillen tussen de collectieve woonvormen van het Coöperatiehuis (1930) en het Vierwindenhuis (1980) en hoe komt dit tot uitdrukking in de ontwerpen?’ dat het Coöperatiehuis en het Vierwindenhuis met verschillende ontwerpfilosofieën ontwikkeld zijn. Ze zijn met...
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Maričić, Marko (author)
Despite its potential benefits of reduced traffic congestion and discounted trips, incorporating ride-pooling in a city comes with a set of challenges that require thorough analysis, optimisation, and planning. Even though, services like \textit{Uber} have existed in Amsterdam for over a decade, city wide ride-pooling has yet to be implemented....
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Valdes Troncoso, Joaquin (author)
The linear food supply chain is putting significant pressures on our resources and our environment. Moreover, global warming is leading to climate change, making our environment more uncertain and challenging food safety around the globe. Therefore new ways of producing food locally need to be researched. This paper investigates how food can be...
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Supera, Jakub (author)
Public procurement in the European Union is an important part of interaction between governments and the market. According to the European Commission1 every year over 250 000 public authorities in the EU spend around 14% of GDP (around €2 trillion per year) on the purchase of services, works and supplies. Often perceived as a purely bureaucratic...
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Escher, Rosemarie (author)
This graduation project focuses on the architectural design of a passive and nature inclusive housing complex in the Lange Bretten, a natural area in Amsterdam-West. The complex offers a temporary home for the growing group of economic homeless of Amsterdam. The design goals for this type of housing include the symbiosis between these residents...
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Voortman, Rick (author)
The city of Amsterdam contains about 1600 bridges and 600 kilometres of quay walls. Of these walls, about 200 kilometres are of masonry walls placed on a timber floor and founded on timber piles. These quay walls are sometimes over 100 years old. Due to the increasing loads in the past century and the degrading of material properties in the...
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