Aging with history: Increasing liveability of Chinese elderly congregating historic city centre area

Living with the others: Spatial transformations towards liveability of cities of social diversity: the case of the Schilderswijk, The Hague

The present thesis project makes use of the idea of a clear demarcation between public and private space as the key element to deal with the conflicting social environment of the Schilderswijk, The Hague. The project is approached and illustrated in various scales; from neighborhood scale until the level of the residential entrances. Main aim of...

Pursuing Authentic City: Create new self-sustaining system of authentic city in Guangzhou historic city centre, China

Flexibility: An alternative development strategy in new urban areas in Hanoi

This thesis discusses the importance and use of flexibility in urban planning and design in South East Asian new urban developments. It stretches the importance of a new balance between the stakeholders in order to create more resilient and sustainable urban extensions. In this way it tries to find answers to the question; in what way can...

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.

Slowing Down ´Shenzhen Speed´

Shenzhen is only 30 years old, and was decided to be the first Special Economic Zone (SEZ) of China. This decision had great influence on the urbanization of Shenzhen, because it has seen one of the fastest growth rates of cities in the world, explaining the saying developing in ´Shenzhen Speed’. This thesis is a research about what it means for...

Grow up Songjiang New Town: Analysis & Strategy to strength economic position of songjiang in regional network and the local self contained system

Analysis & Strategy to strength economic position of Songjiang in Regional network and the lcoal self-contained system

City, catch the time! Rediscovering socialist neighbourhoods in a new capitalist society: Case in Vilnius Lithuania

The graduation project is called “City, catch the time! Rediscovering socialist neighbourhoods in a new capitalist society”. The study case is Vilnius, capital of Lithuania. Focus of the project is socialist housing estates, known as microdistricts. In the beginning of the year I have stated that those housing estates constructed until 1990s in...