The Gender Reveal of Space: A spatial strategic framework for a more gender inclusive planning and design of public spaces in the Netherlands

What happens if we look at (public) space through the lens of gender? How would it be experienced differently? These are questions this thesis will look into. It aims to not only explore different types of gendered spaces but also to increase the understanding of designers and planners on how to make public space more gender inclusive. With the...

Welcome, home: Urban biography about the past and future of a deprived residential neighbourhood typology, featuring the cases of Rotterdam and Minsk

With the progressing housing shortage, there is a need for affordable and accessible housing to accommodate the vulnerable population whose number steadily increases every year. Post-socialist urban residential neighbourhoods, an outdated and neglected but culturally and sentimentally significant typology, has the potential to become a solution...

Masculinities in public space: Reshape heteronormative public spaces to facilitate legitimacy for diverse gender identities

People across the world, identifying beyond the binary notion of gender and sexuality are often limited to freely access and appropriate the city and feel a sense of belonging. A general problem is that notions about gender are strongly embedded within the design of the built environment. To be specific: gender relations in public space are...

Urban Happiness: How urbanists should carry out citizens’ participation during the design process to improve citizens their lives

Social inequility is still part of the current world, not only in the poorer countries but also in the wealthiest once. With the use of gentrification it was tried to hide the poverty by improving the quality of neighbourhoods. Although this improved the liveability and wealthiness of a neighbourhood, it did not improve the lifes of the former...

Making Grey Green: Redesigning business parks as an additional step to bringing back biodiversity in these areas and to the city

Biodiversity is declining worldwide because of population growth and the rising demand for goods. Biodiversity is needed for our ecosystem services which provide us with fresh water and medicine which means people are dependent on a healthy biodiversity. Cities want to greenify to battle the urban heat island effect and the bad water...

Finding Common Grounds: Adapting Heritage Meaning i

Finding Common Grounds: Adapting Heritage meaning in Socially Diverse Couperusbuurt is a renewalproject of Amsterdam’s Western Garden Cities neighbourhood. Western Garden Cities Amsterdam orWestelijke Tuinsteden is a post-war neighbourhood considered heritage by the Municipality of Amsterdam.Currently, Westelijke Tuinsteden of Couperusbuurt...

Integrated difference: Counteracting exclusion of migrants through intercultural spatial planning and governance in Athens

This research-and-design research addresses the influence of urban conditions on social conditions (and vice versa) and explores interdisciplinary alternatives. In the context of Athens (Greece), spatial planning and its governance support social exclusion of migrants, which is expressed through conflicts with native residents. The project...

Water as a connector: A coherency between waterfront redevelopment and urban revitalization

Cities in the Netherlands have mostly traditionally developed themselves around water: often near rivers or sea, sometimes also at its intersection. Rotterdam, with one of the largest port city in the Netherlands, is an example. Rotterdam is a dynamic world port and has a century-long tradition of living with water. The tradition of protecting ...

Christiania: The alternative neighbourhood: An urbanism project on the prospects of freetown Christiania through inter-scalar design interventions where culture is the catalyst for urban regeneration in the city of Copenhagen

This thesis project on Christiania in the context of Copenhagen is an account of the research being carried out during the graduation year of Urbanism, eventually resulting in a design oriented project within the ‘Design of the Urban Fabric’ Research Group.<br/><br/>The structure of this graduation project is divided into five chapters,...

Informal ownership of public space in the neighborhood

Interconnecting Gouda: A spatial configuration linking region, city, periphery and landscape together

Kleiner groeien: De avonturen van de Achterhoek in Krimpland

De regio Achterhoek staat voor de opgave om de gevolgen van krimp in goede banen te leiden. De gevolgen van krimp hebben een grote impact op zowel de fysieke als de sociale leefomgeving. Bijvoorbeeld de zichtbare gevolgen van leegstand in een kern en de gevolgen op de sociale samenhang wanneer bijvoorbeeld de school weggaat of de...