New life for a military complex- Revitalizing Hembrug Peninsula

The Hembrug area was known as AI (Artillerie Inrichtingen) located within the defense line of Amsterdam since 1895. It was composed of 3 factories that function in separated zones and each of them has diverse building typologies. The layout of the AI was changed with the development and transition of Hembrug military industrial. Nowadays, as an...

The New Silk Road: Facilitating interaction between global and local within the Belt and Road Initiative.

At times of political unrest and dynamic changes in the world, China puts forward a proposal for global collaboration towards peace and prosperity - the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Faced with critique, distrust and questions from the global community, the plan to revive the ancient Silk Road can fail just as easily as it can succeed,...

Adaptable Nowa Huta: Revitalizing the socialist legacy

The research in this master graduation focuses on Nowa Huta, a neighborhood located in the Krakow Metropolitan Area (Poland). Nowa Huta was designed and build as a socialist ideal city in the socialist era, complete with its own steel plant where the majority of the inhabitants worked. The Lenin steel factory provided work, but it also financed...

Community living circle along station influencing realm: Exploring the relationship between the community living circle and rail station influencing realm in a mountainous urban context

China is facing the dual challenges of urbanization and motorization（Jing, 2008）. The poorly organized urban centers and traditional residential planning are unable to meet the increasingly diverse demand of people. To solve these problems, the TOD model and the emerging community living circle are being favored by policy makers. Promoting urban...

Stay, Live and Participate: Towards a new urban regeneration method for foreign ethnic enclaves in Chinese cities, take Guangzhou as an example

In the past four decades, China’s reform and opening up has made the country increasingly connected to the process of globalization. And as globalization continues to evolve, more and more people and other elements are beginning to participate in this process. Therefore, a large number of foreigners, especially some individuals and small...

Accommodating the Displaced: An inclusive regional preparedness strategy for the circular environmental migration in the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta

Climate change is the defining crisis of the 21st century. While increasingly there are efforts being made globally to spread awareness about the impact of human activities on the natural environment, the talks on the direct impact of the change on the human are still nascent. There are an increasing number of people who are losing their land,...

Renewal with arrival: A participatory urban renewal in Hong Kong immigrant neighborhood

Hong Kong is an immigrant city. Over 30% of population nowadays are immigrant from mainly China mainland, Malaysia, Philippine and UK (CSD, 2017). Sham Shui po is a typical arrival city that had successfully accommodated several generations of immigrants and help them rising to the local city middle class. Sham Shui Po is developed in 1920s. Its...