Design methods for a water-sensitive city: Brasília as a case study

The sensitive river scape, the sinuous territory: Transforming Dajia River Basin as a Water-Sensitive Landscape Infrastructure

This project explores the landscape potential of Taiwanese river valley in terms of integrating water and river management with urbanism within the context of a dense environment diversity as well as a highly sensitive and dynamic landscape. Taking one of the most illustrative river basin, Dajia River, the steepest river with the most water...

Water as the new normal: Towards adaptive water management and urban development in the Pearl River Delta, the case of Jinsha

Seeking a sustainable future for regions like Jinsha Island will become a common topic in the near future. Since the rural industrialization process is losing its economic foundation, these semi-urbanized areas have to find a way to maintain and develop without abundant resource which cities have. The urban problems generated in rural areas...

Mending Varna: Authentic Landscape as a Fountainhead and Essential Element of Urban Continuity and Identity

Thesis project is developed within the framework of the Flowscapes studio. It follows the strategy of a research by design. It explores solutions to the problems of urban fragmentation, lack of coherence and identity of urban environment from the perspective of landscape architecture. Authentic landscape is chosen as a hypothetical initial...

Mixscapes: improving landscape qualities around Boxtel by introducing alternative agricultural functions

What is the relationship between landscape and agriculture? How can agriculture contibute to the development of the landscape? This research aims to investigate the power of agriculture over landscape form. The research goals are the creation of a diverse landscape structure with sustainable principals and strong identity. The hypothesis is that...

Issues of governance in water resource management and spatial planning

This paper describes governance arrangements in regional spatial planning and water resources management at the regional level from a normative point of view. It discusses the need to integrate spatial planning and resources management in order to deliver socially sustainable integral territorial management. To accomplish this, the Metropolitan...

The tradition of making: Polder cities

Climate change brings larger and more frequent rainstorms and Dutch cities are confronted with water nuisance. The urban water systems are unable to deal with this change in the hydrological cycle in spite of the fact that the Dutch are dealing with this condition for centuries. The question is: What is the tradition of building in wet and soft...

Rotterdam: Dynamic Polder City = Land + Water + Culture

The planning culture in the Netherlands is based on the experience of building cities on very wet and soft soils. The design of Dutch polder cities was from early on a balance between land and water: building site preparation. The relation between technological development and urban development can be ordered in six phases: natural (-1000),...

Lugu Lake: Tourism planning and urban design in the rural area