Living with the waste: Creating a better life image by constructing decentralized waste management in Kampung Kranggan, Semarang

Waste has always been with humans, and its amount will increase drastically, along with rapid urbanization and globalization. Improperly treated waste causes problems such as water pollution and disease, impedes living quality. Developing countries suffer more because of their hysteretic economic and social development. Landfill, as the...

A Moveable Feast in Semarang: Designing an Urban Vending Network by Creating Conditions and Opportunities in Order to Facilitate and Manage Street Vending Activities

Semarang is one of the biggest cities in Indonesia under the process of urbanisation, which threatens the underdeveloped capacity of the city. Street vendors booming is an evident phenomenon of urbanisation, it is a new way of urban living to survive in the urban capitalist growth circumstances. Being the majority of the informal sector, street...

adaptive reuse of landscape heritage: a promising future for improving elderly people’s quality of life in shrinking Parkstad

t seems that urban shrinkage has become a very 'normal' stage of urban development process in Europe. Starting in Germany during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and then slowly but surely spreading across most of Europe (Bontie and Musterd, 2012). Nearly half of Europe's cities home to one-third of the continent's population- are shrinking in...

Mosaic Energyscapes: A carbon negative future for Parkstad

This thesis tackles the described issues through the design of the energy transition of Parkstad Limburg, located in the south of the Netherlands. The region has been the main energy production area of the country during the previous energy period, characterised by coal mining, but with the transition to natural gas extraction it lost its role...

Common Ground: The project as a soft border

Addresses questions social isolation, privatization and individualization of urban sprawl. Focuses on existing boundaries fences, walled estates, commonly<br/>present in contemporary gated society. Enables negotiation of limits between neighbors, houses, possessions and streets. Introduces human proximity to nature and other neighbors by...

New Natural Landscape:Restoring biodiversity in post-industrial region,Parkstad-Limburg

Parkstad Limburg is a conurbation of eight municipalities in South-Limburg in the Netherlands. It’s a typical post-industrial city on the coal mine belt which crosses Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. Due to the stop of coal mining this region lost its pillar industry and now is facing a series of problems of shrinkage in economy and population....

The Green Loop for Active Ageing: The Caring Landscape Design in the Shrinking Parkstad

The emergent issue of Parkstad is shrinkage of the city in results of the transformation from an industry city to its new developments. In contrast to the economic downturn and the decline in total households, the growing number of older people is particularly conspicuous. Aging society is remarked as a worldwide problem especially in Europe....

Positive vibe[r]s for Parkstad: Strategies for implementing, processing and producing Miscanthus x Giganteus

This paper gives an insight in strategies for implementing, processing and producing Miscanthus x Giganteus, or Elephant grass as it is mistakenly called, on a mid-large scale in the Parkstad Region. The area is rooted in agriculture because of fertile löss soil. There have always been a tight bond between the villages and surrounding land. This...

From input to output: Urban Agriculture as a method to Eco-efficient Urban landscape

From leftover spaces to a new connection

Nowadays, cities are quickly growing and therefore infrastructure is a very<br/>important element in the urban environment. Large scale infrastructure like highways<br/>and railways connect the cities from distant places to each other in an efficient manner.<br/>The hard and dominant structure only provides for connection on top of it, but<br/...

Erosion for Betterment: Designing with Erosion to improve well-being | a case study of the Volta Delta, Ghana

Erosion for Betterment is a graduation project within the Landscape Architecture master track at the TU Delft. The project examines an underdeveloped coastal area in Ghana that is sadly facing severe erosional threats due to previous unfortunate human activities. It offers an unexpected direction in handling issues as such by proposing an...

A New Image Between City and Land: Landscape Structures Reconnected in the Urban Fringe of East Utrecht

Ruimte maken, ruimte geven: De vertaalslag die ontwerp en gebruik samenbrengt

Variable Vulnerability: A comparative understanding of different socioeconomic systems - San Francisco Bay region

In this graduation project, I have tried to focus on the aspects of socio-economic development and resilience to sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay region. The comparison is between two cases namely East Palo Alto and Foster City which has a variable difference in their socio–economic the system in terms of the communities that it hosts and...

Dynamic Riverscapes: A vision for inhabitable, sustainable floodplains. The case of Huissensche Waard

The project proposes a new approach for the design of river riparian zones, researching on the debatable issue of living on the floodplains. In recent years, there has been a shift in the tradition of engineering the river landscape towards a more landscape-friendly perspective. However, the focus still remains usually on nature and recreation,...

From Paved Paradise to Daeza: Contributing to Biodiversity with a Paved Garden

Nearly 50% of the Dutch gardens is paved and this number is ever increasing. This negatively affects the environment. It contributes to biodiversity loss since less space is available as a habitat for flora, fauna and ecosystems. Secondly, the paved gardens do not allow the rainwater to infiltrate the soil. As a consequence, the rainwater is...

From edge to integrated surface

Landscape architecture design in Hunter's point of San Francisco, aim to achieve sustainable development facing to the combination problems of sea level rise, decreasing ecological and social quality.