Improving social housing in a sea of open data: The potential role of open data in the decision-making process regarding the energetic improvement by housing associations

In the challenge of climate change, energetically improving the existing residential buildings offers a way to reduce the CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions of the built environment. In the Netherlands, housing associations own and maintain almost a third (2.3 million housing units) of the entire Dutch housing stock and could therefore play a...

Planning for the Transition to Clean Shared Mobility: Leveraging System Dynamics as a Tool for Urban Policy Development

This research aims to evaluate the policies and strategies that cities can deploy to facilitate the transition to clean shared mobility. The literature review supports the research through providing insights into the direction of the shared mobility market, charging infrastructure, electric vehicle development, charging behavior, as well as...

Startup Delta Interventie: Een ruimtelijke invalshoek voor het ontwikkelen van condities van de gazellen KIBS locaties in Rotterdam

Een actueel thema op dit moment is hoe verschillende steden in Nederland startup bedrijven proberen aan te trekken met het idee dat deze type bedrijven een positieve bijdrage zullen leveren aan de economische ontwikkeling van een stad of regio. Van deze type startende bedrijven is met name de doorgroeier, zoals de gazellen Knowledge Intensive...

Localization of Guangming New Town: Integrating the new town development in Shenzhen metropolitan periphery

The core issue of this project is to discuss the relationship between the new town and old town in the fast-growing metropolitan periphery. The main research question of my project is how Guangming new town and old town could mutually benefit from each other, aiming to formulate a process oriented and strategic planning framework to rebuild a...

The Hague international city of peace, justice and security - urban strategy and design for an innovative knowledge cluster

The graduation project focusses on an urban strategy and design for the security sector in The Hague, based on principles from economic theory. In this project the connection is explored between abstract economic theory and the urban design practice. The security sector in The Hague is an emerging sector, however it needs a comprehensive urban...