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Caradonna, Gabriele (author)to Secchi, cities worldwide are facing a New Urban Question,<br/>which entails the problems concerning social inequalities that go together with<br/>spatial injustices in our cities along with the issues related to climate change<br/>and the idea that mobility should become a right for every citizen. These social<br/>discrepancies are visible in...master thesis 2021
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Reterritorializing Zuidoost: Towards sustainable, livable and just assemblages in Amsterdam ZuidoostRamaiah Perumalsamy, Ganesh Babu (author)If we denounce neoliberal ideology and the capitalist order of today’s cities as value generating machines, what would the new order be? An integral part of Amsterdam’s emergence as a just city was the interaction between radical resident movements and national housing policy that was designed to solve the housing shortage through massive...master thesis 2021
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Jeronimus, Roos (author)Amsterdam is a rapidly growing city with a high demand for new homes. Research indicates different initiatives and processes over the last years to densify the city and enhance the liveability in its neighborhoods. However, time has shown the injustice accompanying these proposals and the situation in several neighborhoods worsened over the last...master thesis 2021
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Ruiz Carvajal, Federico (author)Low-income gated communities have become increasingly popular in Bogotá, despite the contradiction that lies at their core: that life in a self-sufficient and closed type of housing is an unsustainable endeavour for a population that cannot pay for a privatised life. To navigate through this paradox, residents constantly negotiate those...master thesis 2021
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Rouwette, Patrick (author)Aligning the urban environment to concrete urban processes, increasing the liveability, is one of the major challenges urban planners are facing. Adapting the built-environment to cope with soil sealing, climate change, the densification of cities with the ‘compact city’ concept and other urban demands, constantly pressure the quality of urban...master thesis 2021
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Smink, Rebecca (author)Using Stratford as a case study, this research aims to address the lack of consideration for creating affordances of coexistence between local and global communities within areas subject to large scale regeneration projects. This process of chance in favour of attracting more affluent residents can lead to the complete displacement of local...master thesis 2020
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Maurer, Patrick (author)Has the pandemic transformed our working environment into a digital panopticon, and how close is this idea to the one of Bentham's panopticon described in Foucault's book "Discipline and Punish, the birth of the prison"?<br/>This research paper compares the modern smart-working environment and the digitalization of our social interaction with...student report 2020
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Stuyt, Mae-Ling (author)What is the future of urban industrial land? This is a challenge urban design and planning field has only just started to undertake. Currently, the differentiation between the urban core as the front stage zone for human residence and entertainment versus the rural periphery as the backstage zone for production, logistics and energy harvesting...master thesis 2020
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MacDonald-Nelson, James (author)Despite relatively progressive policies put forth by the Canadian government to tackle the challenge of climate mitigation, cities and regions across the country are only beginning to address the equally important task of adaptation. This conversation typically focuses on the spatial adaptability of shorelines, dense urban environments, and the...master thesis 2020
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Scholten, Mark (author)Under the influence of globalisation and neoliberal planning paradigms, socio-spatial segregation in Stockholm, Sweden has significantly risen. Its society has become more heterogeneous, with migrants often ending up in socially vulnerable suburbs in the periphery of metropolitan areas where a spiral of social exclusion and decline is...master thesis 2020
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Laub, L. (author)Integration as one of the major paths to social cohesion is a task of urban development and restructuring (Glick Schiller & Çaǧlar, 2009). A growing number of scholars refer to the importance of urban opportunities that facilitate integration processes via the empowerment, interaction and participation of social groups (Glick Schiller &...master thesis 2019
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Muñoz Unceta, Pablo (author)Like many other Latin American cities, Lima experienced explosive population growth during the last century. Its population went from 600 thousand people in 1940 to nearly 9.5 million people nowadays. Former agriculture fields between the coast and the beginning of the Andes mountains were quickly filled with urban developments. Neither the...master thesis 2019
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Einert, Max (author)This research and design thesis addresses the transition towards a post-capitalistic economy and explores a corresponding spatial development perspective for Leipzig (Germany) and its hinterland. The starting point of this project is the theoretical assumption that there is a mutual relation between spatial and economic development. <br/>From...master thesis 2018
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Ferraro, Maricruz Gazel (author)Gated communities exist in most urbanized contexts around the world and San José, Costa Rica is not the exception. Following the discourse of insecurity and the claim of building community with-in the confinement of the gates, new developments are constructed with a peripheral wall. As gated communities diversify to all available markets they...master thesis 2018
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Ionescu, A.I. (author)The territory is a palimpsest (A. Corboz 1968), a complex unfinished story encoded in morphology and society. By exploring future images and scenarios the project seeks to support social and ecological integration. At a larger scale, the valley section (P. Geddes 1909) and the two network theory (S. Tjallingii 2005) inspire the definition of the...master thesis 2016
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Cornelissen, L. (author)This graduation project is called ''green BlUE capital: Enhancing the quality of life by implementing climate adaptable solutions in the densely populated existing city of Nijmegen.'' This project describes the transformation of existing cities such as Nijmegen in order to cope with the change in climate, with a main focus on stormwater...master thesis 2016
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He, Z. (author)Shenzhen has long been seen as the ‘World Factory’ and a ‘Cultural Desert’. However in the era of knowledge based development, it is urgent to explore new strategies on urban regeneration in the perspective of intercultural integration. The migration of multiple sub ethic groups in the history as well as the migrant workers from nationwide since...master thesis 2016