Metropolitan Region Vienna-Bratislava, rethinking the dispersed territory in-between the two capital cities

This thesis was written in the course of the European Postgraduate Master in Urbanism – Strategies and Design for Cities and Territories (EMU) at the Department of Urbanism in the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. The research analyses the spatial condition and the planning system in the...

The Dancing Boundary: Towards regional development of the border land between Bratislava and Vienna

The border land has always been where a country ends, designated as the "End of the Plan". It also draws a line between people from different sides of the space. However, the introduction of the euro and Schengen treaty has brought us an opportunity for transfrontier spatial development which may establish a new relationship in the border land....

Flux waterscapes: The transformation of south Bratislava as part of waterscape of Danube

My research design starts from relationship between water landscape and human livability. By doing analysis of Bratislava, I found that the city is facing the serious flood problem, especially the biggest residential area on the right bank of Bratislava. Besides this, the right bank city is a post-socialist city with low quality of living...