Enhance the profound vitality of urban villages

Making a real city for everyone-spatial transformation towards inclusiveness and vitality

Rural-urban migrants are vulnerable facing the industrial transition in China. This research reveals the ignorance of migrants’ interests within current urban renewal in Shenzhen, China. By referring to the theory of arrival city and urban inclusiveness, the provision of affordable work-related space through urban renewal in Shenzhen’s...

Productive & Creative Dalang: towards a strategic framework to integrate urban migrants into industrial upgrading in the periphery of Shenzhen, China

Upgrading the Utopia

Restructuring modernist suburban district of Husby, Stockholm, by proposing an alternative planning tool - guideplan. The design guidelines mainly are focused on involving local communities into design process through flexibility and mixture of urban fabric.

Diversity in Neukölln: Maintaining or creating accessibility (for a diversity of social groups) in a gentrifying central neighbourhood in the case of Berlin

The project tries to anticipate on the gentrification issues in the case of Neukölln in Berlin. How to stimulate/maintain accessibility for a diversity of social groups in a central gentrifying area [in the case of Neukölln, Berlin] ? This is the main research question of the thesis. This resulted in a project that consists of a strategy for...

Pursuing Authentic City: Create new self-sustaining system of authentic city in Guangzhou historic city centre, China

Local Potential: Hackney

Analysis and current issues of urban development system in Hackney, London. Intensifying operation of the urban renewal by integrating new management and communication system within the area. Testing the system by simulating new management tools and communication devices to redesign an urban block within Hackney.

Evolving Danwei housing: An alternative way to develop former public housing in Shenzhen, China

Nowadays, many Chinese cities like Shenzhen are experiencing intense spatial transformation. Downgrading neighbourhoods are being replaced by high-end housing, shopping malls and office in order to promote economic growth. The former socialist public housing is one of the redevelopment hot spots. However, such land-based development focuses on...

Back on track: Redeveloping the railway zone in Gouda

A railway station is one of the most important elements of modern cities. The station is of vital importance to shops and other economic functions in the city centre because of the constant flow of people going in and out of the city. At present, many Dutch cities saw the necessity of redeveloping their railway station environments. Every...

The experience of public space in The Hague South East

This booklet studies the possibilities of the design of public spaces, in the light of two influential theories by Kevin Lynch and Gordon Cullen, published in the beginning of the 1960’s. They focus on the design of the public space in relation to the experience of the city users. Yet again and again these theories are referred to, even in...

Meeting the Hague south west at the border

This graduation project focuses on improving the public space and pedestrian connections between the different neighbourhoods surrounding the station area of the Hague Moerwijk. In the present situation the station area of the Hague Moerwijk is not well accessible or visible from its surroundings and the existing qualities of the area are...

Towards sustainable urban renewal in the Netherlands

Cities and the neighbourhoods within are dynamic and change continuously. Vital neighbourhoods can cope with changing circumstances like outdated use, changing household compositions, consumer preferences and fashions, political turnovers, global trends and economic cycles. Sustainable areas are vital and flexible to changes. Sustainable urban...