Hong Kong - Shenzhen Metropolitan Park Development: A sustainable and mutual benefit development plan for the cross-border area between Hong Kong and Shenzhen

This final thesis report is a specific plan and research project of the cross-border area between Hong Kong and Shenzhen metropolis. The aim is looking for a sustainable and mutual benefit development strategy of cross-border area between the metropolitan area which is under highly urbanization and conurbation process. The main approach is using...

Implementing a supportive public space network in Shenzhen new CBD

Public space should be a node for social integration (Jacobs, J. 1961/1969; Carmona, M. 2003). The proposed project will search for a new model for organization of its public spaces exploring possible functional and physical integration, towards forming a cohesive public space network, that is to say, a network to be able to support the new mix...

Promoting the role of public spaces - developing public spaces as a spatial integration element in the city of Fortaleza

A Network of Typologies: Redefining of and giving quality to the public space network as an urban restructuring element in order to permeate the borders of La Victoria and reconnect to the regional and metropolitan scale.

The development of a methodology for analyzing and restructuring the public space network of Santiago de Chile, aiming at the permeation of borders within the municipality Pedro Aguirre Cerda.

Socioeconomic and spatial integration strategies for La Victoria, Santiago de Chile - A Public Space Network

A project about the processes and conditions that produce uneven and asymmetrical development in contemporary urban environment. Case study: Socioeconomic and spatial integration strategies for La Victoria, Santiago de Chile. A public space network -enhancing endogenous development- that can encourage the permeation of borders around La Victoria.

Socioeconomic And Spatial Integration Strategies for Lo Valledor Housing Area In Santiago De Chile

Historical constrains and history of environmental degradation nowadays is clearly visible in fragmentation of certain urban areas and uneven distribution of wealth. Polarization is common throughout the entire city always because of economic rather than social emphasis of development . Pockets of wealth contrast with wastelands of uniformity,...

Between Walls and Informal Settlements: Affordable Housing as an Urban Regeneration Strategy in the North-West Mexican Border Region

This thesis is a specific research of the south side of the transborder region of San Diego/Tijuana and its drastic housing deficit caused by continuous migration and uncontrollable population growth. Together, the city of Tijuana in the Mexican side and the city of San Diego in the American side conform the largest urban agglomeration that...

The case of Leipzig: A city between migration and integration: Social cohesion through a mixed-use housing model for higher city competitiveness performance

Efficient urban planning in new energy era: The approach of urban renewal by premise of large-scale GHG reduction through a case study in Rotterdam

Introduction There is almost unanimous agreement among scientists that climate change is a fact. Burning fossil fuels as the conventional energy sources are the problem of global warming. Nowadays energy and climate are like two coin sides??problems, are confronting knotty conditions especially lying on economic dependency on fossil fuels and...