Imagine the Old Town of Lijiang: Contextualising community participation for urban heritage management in China

The UNESCO 2011 Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) states community participation is a pivotal tool for integrating heritage practices into sustainable urban development. While community participation is significant but limited in China, various participatory methods have been developed, tested and evaluated worldwide. For...

State-of-the-practice: Assessing community participation within Chinese cultural World Heritage properties

Community participation is a key part of heritage management. However, in practice, unlike natural heritage, the nature of community participation within cultural heritage is seldom assessed, nor are there theoretical frameworks developed to baseline such assessments. To fill this knowledge gap, this paper developed and tested an assessment...

Informing or consulting? Exploring community participation within urban heritage management in China

To better face the challenges of rapid urbanisation, it is recommended urban heritage management is carried out through community participation. In the Chinese context of state centralisation, however, inclusive participatory governance for urban heritage has remained limited, and effective ways of engaging residents in decision-making have...

Mutual benefit from nature to human society: Reed factory along Oostvaardersdijk

This graduation project as a part of the Delta Intervention studio is meant to explore how much can the architecture contribute to water management based on its new cornerstone “build with nature”. Starting from the research on coastal vulnerabilities to the study of wetland systems, I tried to conceive an extreme environment where man and...

Wanderland: Dementia and senior nursing home along de Rotte, Crooswijk, Rotterdam

A kop-hals-romp Boerderij Transformation Considering Seismic Proof Intervention

The research paper aims to give proper anti-seismic retrofit advices for the architectural typology of the Kop-hals-romp Boerderij as heritage. For the farmhouse that embedded with heritage value, it’s very important to strengthen the building in a heritage friendly way. The notion of heritage value is thus discussed in the paper as to give a...

Border design

The 3145km long US-Mexican border is one of the longest and most intense borderlines in the world. The border twin cities, El Paso and Juarez, are unlike any of the US or Mexican cities. The two cities grow interdependently, asymmetrically and share lots of contrast. Particularly, crossing the border to shop is common in the region. Both...

Elderly home for dementia patients

An Infinite Mini World: Dementia nursing home in Amsterdam Noord

Eventscape: New possibility of developing urban brownfield in central Duisburg to achieve its cultural identity

A number of industrial cities are striving for new directions for their own development in the post-industrial age nowadays. Most of existing projects on post-industrial cities often focus more on a proper re-development of brown field -- spatially and ecologically -- while less on the urgent condition of social structure of post-industrial...

The Dancing Boundary: Towards regional development of the border land between Bratislava and Vienna

The border land has always been where a country ends, designated as the "End of the Plan". It also draws a line between people from different sides of the space. However, the introduction of the euro and Schengen treaty has brought us an opportunity for transfrontier spatial development which may establish a new relationship in the border land....

Renovation of Water-related City Border

The Delta Intervention Studio Deals with the practical problem of the water?related architecture design and urban planning. It’s a combination of architecture, civil engineering and management which provide practical reference for the real project in Houston. Due to a changing climate and changing insights concerning sustainable relations...

Complex projects Southwork Civic Center

Urban Farming Visitor Center

The whole project of South works focus on how to bring back the glory of the neighborhood. We found a new identity of urban farming growing city to help the neighborhood solve the social problems and build a new type of city. All the effort can easily be applied in another place and it will became a prototype of urban farming neighborhood. All...

Weighted Betweenness and Algebraic Connectivity

One of the better studied topology metrics of complex networks is the second smallest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix of a network’s graph, referred to as the algebraic connectivity mN-1. This spectral metric plays a decisive role in synchronization of coupled oscillators, network robustness, consensus problems, belief propagation, graph...

Buffer: A Place of Becoming

Degree and Principal Eigenvectors in Complex Networks

The largest eigenvalue ? 1 of the adjacency matrix powerfully characterizes dynamic processes on networks, such as virus spread and synchronization. The minimization of the spectral radius by removing a set of links (or nodes) has been shown to be an NP-complete problem. So far, the best heuristic strategy is to remove links/nodes based on the...