Regenerating Rotterdam South: Improving socio-economic diversity and spatial quality in problem areas dealing with selective migration

Re-public City: A strategic planning of public space for local people in the context of globalization in Shanghai Lujiazui Finance & Trade Zone

Merwede-Vierhaven: Redefining the relation between city and harbour in the city of Rotterdam

Because of the construction of the second Maasvlakte the harbours in Rotterdam will shift towards the west. This movement will create open spaces in the most eastern harbour of Rotterdam; The Stadshavens. This harbour is the only active harbour left which have a physical relation with the city of Rotterdam. The open spaces in these harbours can...

Improving the Connection: Transforming the Metropolitan station area of Hollands Spoor

The ongoing development of traffic congestion throughout The Netherlands has been part of Dutch policy for a long time now, with no actual results in decreasing this mobility issue. The Hague, as part of the Randstad where traffic congestion plays a large role, is an important connection on all levels. With investments in Central Station,...

Reconnecting Rotterdam Port

How the physical and mental connections between the port and its surroundings can be restored by extending the regional public transport system, in order to enhance the competitive position of the Port of Rotterdam. Combined graduation thesis for the master degree of Urbanism at the faculty of Architecture and the master degree of Transport &...

From glass city to hybrid landscape: The transformation of a historic grown glasshouse concentration in the Randstad

Univer ‘City’-new livable creative city in the knowledges periphery of Shenyang

Knowledge economy will be the number one force driven urban development in the next 100 years. According to R. Knight (1995), there are 6 different kinds of knowledge base of cities: technology, commercial, industry, administration, art and culture, and creativity in culture. What I tried in this thesis is to combine all these knowledge base...

New exchange HUB trigger gateway regeneration

China is facing the over-speed urbanization and economic transformation since 1990s. Under this background, majority of capital city or regional central city, following the similar pace of those first emerged global city, such as Beijing, Shanghai, arise their aim to access globalization. As far as a urban planer concerned,if consider these...

The airport as a new urban node toward a strategic and sustainable development

Thesis how to develop the area around the airport of Rotterdam into a new urban node.

Rediscovery of city potentiality, Hsinchu City, Taiwan