Forum Romanum in Varna: A landscape-based strategy for the integration of marginalized Roma settlements through a sequence of public spaces

The city is a cultural object. It is a place where social life reflects the values and habits of communities. Every city is characterized by centralities and marginalities, with specific socio-spatial concentrations of maximum significance, while others lack in value. The political landscape of Eastern Europe has dramatically changed over the...

Access to the city for everyone: Spatial and planning strategies to counteract residential segregation in Bogotá

The study and comprehension of cities development processes becomes nowadays more relevant not only for academics but also for planners involved in practice, policy makers and other groups concerned with urban space shaping. On one hand, it is already known by the ‘state of world population report’ of United Nations, that about one in two...

Socio-economic and spatial re-organization of Albert Cuypmarkt

The project investigates how to include the low-income groups into wealth-generating economic structures of the city and how to increase their use of the socio-economically advantaged urban locations. The investigation is carried out through re-organization and production of urban and architectural space and it aims to bring together questions...