Glancing into Future Cities—City Futures

Educational framework

Not only within the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, but throughout Delft University of Technology, the City of the Future Graduation Lab proves to have a truly unique position. It is a laboratory where students are challenged to think beyond their own discipline, creating an interdisciplinary synergy between different fields...

City of the Future Graduation Lab: Experiences in Multidisciplinary Education

The Cross Domain City of the Future Graduation Lab, situated in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft, has been a pioneer in experimenting with a multidisciplinary approach to education on the built environment. Drawing upon this expertise over the past years, this book reflects on multidisciplinarity in the built...

Future Cities—City Futures: Emerging Urban Perspectives

The book is about future cities and possible scenarios for city futures. A question central to this book is how to face urban challenges while providing and safeguarding positive outcomes, concerned with the improvement of the quality of urban life: How can future cities be made more liveable, sustainable, and resilient? How can cities continue...

Megaproject and the city: Theorizing social media discourses across the lifecycle of an infrastructure project

Managing the perception of project communities is critical to the success of infrastructure megaprojects. This study focuses on the Nagpur metro rail project in India to understand people's experiences and discourses in the pre-construction, construction, and operation phases. We use qualitative content analysis and open coding of the tweets...

Prologue - Future Cities - City Futures

Overview - Emerging Urban Perspectives

Epilogue—Towards a Transdisciplinary Discussion on Future Cities and City Futures

Exploring the Many Cities in the City: Seeing the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Study of the Urban, edited by Nanke Verloo and Luca Bertolini, 2020, Amsterdam University Press

How should we study the city? While there is diverse literature on research methodology, it is not easy to find a book that addresses the increasingly complex urban context and provides a comprehensive overview of current research methods applied in urban studies. Seeing the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Study of the Urban goes a...

Diversity and Challenges of the Urban Commons: A Comprehensive Review

This study is a comprehensive literature review about the field of the urban commons and its diversity, which we investigate through the lens of the new commons. Acknowledging a potential for adaptive capacity in the urban commons, we classify its traits into ecosystem, socio-economic and institutional factors. To make our work more practical,...

The Begijnhoven: Analysis of Other Hybrid Types in the Medieval City

This research explores the paradoxes of domesticity in the Begijnhof. These architectural ensembles can be analysed as a different medieval hybrid type, as cities in their own right as well as cities within cities. They emerged in the European medieval cities in the thirteenth century and were inhabited by the Beguines for almost eight centuries...

Influence of cleantech interventions on wastewater chain and City of Amsterdam: Towards a resilient system for phosphorus recovery & valorisation

The wastewater chain of Amsterdam offers an opportunity to recover up to 100% of phosphorus per year, versus 47% currently recovered. However, for the stakeholders of Amsterdam (e.g. citizens, business) it remains difficult to scale-up existing solutions for resource recovery. Mainly, due to the limitations of the widelyused methods (e.g. mass...