In Between Borders

Street life: Revitalizing new Asian developments

Street life deals with contemporary issues in Asian new developments. It critiques the new towns and proposes a transformation to increase their livability and reconnect them to the local context - both physical and cultural.

Qingshuihe - A regeneration approach for rapid functional transformation

Post-industrial area in transition - renaissance of a derelict industrial area in Beijing

During the industrialization process early in 20th century in most of Chinese cities, heavy industries with contamination were initially located in city periphery when they were founded. But nowadays, these industrial areas gradually became part of urban area due to the rapid and large-scale urbanization and city expansion. Since late in the...

Eco city, eco transport: Urban regeneration in Arnhem central south

Public space not for sale! A public space regeneration strategy, aiming to balance the socio-cultural development and strengthen the identity of the city of Sofia.

The thesis is exploring the relation between 3 main elements, identified within the urban environment of the city of Sofia: the processes resulting from the political change in 1989, the unexploited cultural heritage and the ability of public space to regenerate urbanity. The project exploits the relation between those elements while finding a...

Achieving a balanced network

An integrated strategy for a new regional infrastructure development, improving the job accessibility and the socio-spatial cohesion.

Pilgrimage, power and identity of the place: Strategies for future development of Mashhad as a sustainable religious city

The city of Mashhad as the second biggest city in Iran is an example of global city which religion shaped the identity and spatial configuration of the city. Mashhad is as an example of pilgrimage sites in the Middle East that globalization or the religion transform whole structure of local fabric and polarized the city. The wave of...

Urban "Home" for the Great Urban “Outcast”: Developing "Normalized Urban Residential System" in Second-tier City Changsha for the Low-income Migrant Workers

The "migrant worker" (MW) is a new social group and the irreplaceable force in economic development in contemporary Chinese cities. But they are “fake-urbanized”. Their urban residential problems directly reflected the situation: On the one hand, they are not acknowledged in urban population’s (UP) urban residential system; On the other hand,...

Non-Splintered City

Exploring the gateway corridor development Beijing-Tianjin, to develop a plan for a core local transport node, as an activator to connect the local existing functions to the governmental services related plan

Between Walls and Informal Settlements: Affordable Housing as an Urban Regeneration Strategy in the North-West Mexican Border Region

This thesis is a specific research of the south side of the transborder region of San Diego/Tijuana and its drastic housing deficit caused by continuous migration and uncontrollable population growth. Together, the city of Tijuana in the Mexican side and the city of San Diego in the American side conform the largest urban agglomeration that...

The case of Leipzig: A city between migration and integration: Social cohesion through a mixed-use housing model for higher city competitiveness performance