Urban life. Integrating city and nature in the south of the Rotterdam metropolitan area by urban design.

This urban design graduation project is about integration of city and nature. In contemporary metropolitan areas nature and city form an interactive network. In this context the urban design discipline, which is traditionally focused on urbanization and sociology-economical issues, should also incorporate the natural system. The outcome of the...

New life for the Old Line: Design research to the integration of Stedenbaan / Transit-Oriented Development in local urban regeneration areas. Case: Oude Lijn Leiden region

Because of its polycentric organization the system of the urban network of Randstad Holland is very much dependant on the connecting infrastructure lines between the sub agglomerations and urban centres. The use and efficiency of the infrastructure network has been the subject for debate for the last years, resulting in programs that consider...