Rondom de metro: Een onderzoek naar de fysieke inrichtingspotentie van metrostationsomgevingen in de autogeorienteerde regio Rotterdam

Amersfoort train station as an entrance to landscape theater

The Hague 2040+. An Integrated Approach Towards Heat Proof Cities

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges we face during this century; heatwaves, periods of extreme drought, and heavy rainfall get more common. Increasing temperatures have massive impact on cities. High amounts of paved- and built-up surfaces store heat during the day, making cities warmer than their rural environment. In order to keep...

The new cultural city: The future of Tainan city in Taiwan’s metropolitan development process

With the construction of high-speed railway in 2007, and the establishment of five direct controlled municipalities along the west coast of Taiwan in 2010, theses changes offer opportunities to redirect and redefine the role of Tainan and its spatial strategy. The project first discuss the possible morphology for south region. With serious...

Reconceptualising the Periphery: A regional restructuring proposal for Northern New Jersey to catalyse its economic, cultural and environmental capacities from an integrative metropolitan perspective

This thesis proposes an Integral, inter-municipal planning/governance and regeneration framework for Northern New Jersey (North Jersey), a major sub-region of the New York metropolitan region facing major urbanisation challenges, namely socio-economic transformations and mobility gaps. The aim is to present a counter proposal seeking to directly...

Transition towards Sustainable City

Location for graduation project – Kaunas, Lithuania. Lithuania is one of the countries that have been for 50years a part of the communist bloc. 50 years of central planning and plan economy highly influenced the form of cities, the traditions of spatial planning and the habits of people to use space. After becoming independent, cities went...

Toward network city suburban high-speed train station as a new node in the network

This project is dealing with the urban issue arised from the arrival of High-speed train system in the suburban area and how to integrate a new centrality (HST node) into the regional development.

Shrinkage: The Challenge of Re-structuring the City

The project looks for urban design tools to develop a sustainable urban structure for shrinking Heerlen. Through a set of interventions at different scales, it brings formal and informal processes together,emphasizes regional identity, uses landscape and geomorphology as a determinant of urban development.

The Case of Jakarta: A City with an Isolated Bus Rapid Transit: formulating a design strategy to establish an integrated transit oriented development in Jakarta using the existing bus rapid transit system

Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia, a developed country in the Southeast Asia. With the population of 23 million, Jakarta and the surrounding area is the 4th largest urban area in the world. As the result, Jakarta suffers from inadequate facility such as severe traffic jams caused by too much commuting from areas around Jakarta, and air...

A new era in the 'Nieuwe Bouwen' neighbourhoods: A possible solution for the aging post-war residential areas in the Netherlands

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

Olympic aftermath: Olympic Games as a catalyst for urban regeneration in Rotterdam

This master thesis is the result of a graduation project for the MSc program in Urbanism at the faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. It aims at making a strategy to use the Olympic Games as a catalyst for urban regeneration in Rotterdam. Although the Games in itself are a short-term event, the impact on the host city and...

Stapelen: Een alternatieve spooruitbreiding van 2 naar 4 sporen

Inleiding De Nederlandse overheid is er veel aan gelegen het treingebruik te bevorderen. Enerzijds ontlast dat Schiphol, anderzijds zou het aantal files kunnen afnemen. Om dit doel te bereiken worden op een groot aantal locaties spoorlijnen van 2 naar 4 sporen uitgebreid. Omdat u it kostenoverweging vaak voor een uitbreiding op maaiveld wordt...