Regreeneration

An approach to anticipate on new built regeneration projects in order to improve deprived deprived neighbourhoods.

The Connecting Waterscape; The case of the Maashaven in Rotterdam

The area around the Maashaven in Rotterdam South is short of larger recreational public space, which is a drawback to attract starters and young families to this socially segregated area. Like in many other Northern European cities, the harbour currently divides successful and the deprived neighbourhoods and awaits a new function now the...

Qingshuihe - A regeneration approach for rapid functional transformation

New Town Regeneration: Inwards expansion as a tool for the regeneration and growth of Almere

Almere is a city facing a duality of problems; on the one hand, the older districts show increasing signs of degeneration inside the current city while on the other hand the municipality has a huge, but currently very uncertain outwards driven growth ambition to double the city beyond the current borders. During the project analyses have been...

Stockholm, building the city inwards: A sustainable regeneration of brownfields for the growing population of Stockholm region

reInheritance: Shaping the future of the historic inner city of Amsterdam

The city of Amsterdam is broadly considered to be of great cultural and historic value. For centuries, it has played a vital role in the development of The Netherlands and Western Europe as the centre of the Modern World. Traditionally, the balance between government, freedom and trade is considered to be of paramount importance for the...

Materializing Identity: Utilizing inherent urban identity as a main design factor in the inner city regeneration of Rotterdam

Abstract – In order to create good urban environments city planners need to start addressing the issue of urban identity (Oktay 2002). According to Oktay, people should again feel that some part of the environment belongs to them, individually and collectively, some part for which they care and are responsible, whether they own it or not. For,...

Return to the coast! Creating vital and attractive seaside towns

Dublin towards complementary advantage: Rowlagh for tomorrow!

With renewed urban expansion focused on alternative ‘greenfield’ growth centres within Dublin, the research question seek to find if it is possible to consider the re-activation (urban recycling) of existing areas such as Rowlagh. Through an endogenous approach informing the critical design tasks, consider the regeneration and re-activation of...

Analysis methods for the regeneration of Dutch problem neighbourhoods

This research is looking for an integral approach in regenerating Dutch problem neighbourhoods. With an integral approach is meant an approach that combines spatial and social measures. This is currently missing in practice and theory of urbanism and results often in the replacement of problems instead of the solving of problems.

City, catch the time! Rediscovering socialist neighbourhoods in a new capitalist society: Case in Vilnius Lithuania

The graduation project is called “City, catch the time! Rediscovering socialist neighbourhoods in a new capitalist society”. The study case is Vilnius, capital of Lithuania. Focus of the project is socialist housing estates, known as microdistricts. In the beginning of the year I have stated that those housing estates constructed until 1990s in...