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From Arrival City to Circular City: The Circular Development Approach to Incorporating Migrant Workers into the Urban Village Regeneration

Lin, Xinyu (author)

Urban villages in China, such as those in Chengdu’s Green Belt, are typical informal settlements inhabited by a large number of migrant workers. These workers maintain short-distance food systems characterized by small-scale agriculture and local food sales, which are crucial for food security. However, under the “grain security” policy, the...

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Grieving ecological losses: Creating space for ecological grief in the urban context to contribute to a societal transition towards eco-centric values

Giesen, Mayke (author)

The world is facing an escalating environmental crisis marked by major socio-ecological losses. Human-induced environmental threats, like biodiversity loss, climate change, and pollution, underscore the onset of the Earth's sixth mass extinction, recently termed ‘ecocide’. Despite the urgent warnings from the scientific community and growing...

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Planning for justice: A value-based framework to help spatial planners develop just housing strategies in Dutch regions

Koch, Matthijs (author)

The current Dutch housing domain is characterised by injustices on multiple scales, such as a shortage of housing, disparities in well-being across regions, and unaffordable housing. This situation can partially be attributed to spatial planning practices focused on promoting growth-oriented economic thinking. These contemporary planning...

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Space-making, Playing it Forward: Using language in co-creative participatory urban processes to access and value the ‘unconventional‘ while also building citizen literacy

Baugh, Rebecca (author)

The project aims to develop a co-creative approach to participatory urban planning and design for improved socio-spatial justice through co-creation. The project is situated within a broader context of ‘Them vs Us’ conflicts including rigid social hierarchies of coloniality, caste, class, and expertise that limit the extent to which and what...

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Finding Common Water: Empowering localized autonomy of dike management for an adaptive Rhine River.

Berkien, Jens (author)

The Rhine River distributes water to more than 60 million residents, vital industries, and important agricultural sites across a total of eight countries. However, due to climate change, the availability of water resources has become increasingly dependent on seasonal supply and internal distribution (UNESCO, 2009). Moreover, extended periods of...

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From Energyscape To Energy Justice: Rethink Approaches For A Just Energy Transition: Revitalize the neglected regions through integrated planning: a case study in Changhua, Taiwan

Liu, Kuan-Ting (author)

Taiwanese landscape has dramatically changed since 2018, when the Energy Transition White Paper was published. Due to the land limitation, the Taiwanese government has focused on the multifunctional use of land to create renewable energy and maintain the original activities on the ground at the same time, especially on agricultural lands....

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Self-salvation beyond growth: Research on Urban Regenerative Planning for Resource-exhausted Cities in Socio-economic Transition from Smart Shrinkage Perspective

Yan, Anyi (author)

Due to global social and economic developments and the intensifying urbanization process, China's urban development is displaying a novel phenomenon of expansion and shrinkage oscillations. Cities dependent on natural resources are among those worst affected by China's urban shrinkage. Resource-based cities, which are essential to China's...

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Re-imagining Periphery: On Identifying Development Opportunity of North Anhui through Place-based Circular Transition

SHEN, Fran (author)

North Anhui 6 cities locate at the periphery of Yangtze River Delta (YRD) in the eastern part of China. Even though YRD are the country’s most developed region, north Anhui are the most underdeveloped area according to Human Development Index in the region with only 1/5 of the core area’s GDP per capita. Large population outflow and high take-up...

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Feeding the Future: Towards a climate resilient rice production in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam

ZHOU, KE (author)

Delta systems, characterized by their dynamic nature and high population densities, are crucial for food and water security. However, they face significant challenges as they are on the forefront of climate change impacts, including sea level rise, river and coastal flooding, and coastal erosion. Among them is the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, where...

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Reframing Brussels' Canal zone: From path dependence to path renewal

Swinkels, Siene (author)

Many western European countries have undergone the process of deindustrialisation. The has resulted in a changed economy focused on knowledge. This went hand in hand with urbanisation, resulting in explosive population growth in many cities. In combination with the rise of neoliberal planning made cities an attractive investment object. All...

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Permeating Socio-Ecological Walls: Addressing the Multi-Dimensional Inequality in the 'City of Walls' through Environmental Justice

Müller, Larissa (author)

Rapid urbanization, governmental neglect, socio-spatial segregation, and a widening societal gap has led to São Paulo’s nickname as the ‘City of Walls’ (Caldiera, 2000). These processes continue to shape the sprawling city today, contributing to the formation of a society characterized by multi-dimensional inequality and deeply isolated...

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Inequality and Life Fulfilment: A social, cultural and spatial exploration of the Greater Gaborone Region

Watchorn, Dan (author)

The story of modern Botswana is that of dualities. At the time of independence in 1966, it was the second poorest country in the world in terms of GDP. Since then, it has seen explosive economic growth and accompanying improvements in human development. It is now ranks third in sub-saharan Africa in both GDP per capita and HDI. This impressive...

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Reconfiguring Travel Patterns: The Necessary Rapid Just Transition to Car-Free Urban Planning

van Daalhuizen, Thomas (author)

There is a need to broaden discussions on sustainable mobility beyond electric cars and address the challenges faced by border regions and marginalised groups dependent on public and soft transport. This thesis explores how a transition strategy can support the creation a just and sustainable multi-modal network in a cross-border context. The...

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(re)framing the narrative: Storytelling otherwise for a just forest economy in Kampala's city region

Wasswa, Shinnosuke (author)

Kampala is the heartbeat of Uganda’s economy and has driven rural-urban migration over the years as people travel in search of better opportunities (Namwanje, 2022). This has led to rapid urbanisation and unprecedented growth of the informal sector that extends beyond the geographical confines of the city. <br/><br/>Rural areas, acting as...

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Someone at home?: an integrated housing system that utilises vacancy in London for temporary housing to ensure homes for low-income families

Anders, Nora (author)

Due to the ongoing housing crisis in London, a significant number of low-income families at the risk of homelessness and displacement are currently placed in insufficient temporary accommodation while simultaneously autonomous developments like the ‘financialisation of housing’ and the ‘sharing economy’ result in an increasing number of...

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Brave Tolerant City: Planning for diversity forbearance in Kaunas

Ramonas, A. (author)

Tolerance is an essential tool of peaceful coexistence that allows diversity to flourish and a multicultural pluralist society to function. In times of globalisation, digitalisation, and polarization, it is becoming more critical than ever. Nevertheless, tolerance faces multiple issues. As a concept, it is being washed up, belittled, and...

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The Power of Imperfection: China-Ethiopia Industrial Parks as the Medium for Local Vitalization: The Case of Eastern Industry Zone, Dukem, Ethiopia

Wu, Jiaying (author)

Exchanges between China and Africa involving political, economic, scientific and cultural aspects have a long history and are constantly updated according to the practical needs of both sides. The high degree of complementarity has led to China-Africa deepening cooperation, which has been accompanied by the emergence of new industrial clusters,...

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Roadmap to Belonging: Urban planning as a tool to facilitate the sense of belonging of Syrian status holders in small towns in the Netherlands

Lens, Daniëlle (author)

Forced migration has been a significant struggle in the Netherlands, politically, socially, spatially and culturally. The costs of this struggle are paid by asylum seekers and status holders, living in uncertainty and isolation. This thesis discusses the position of Syrian status holders in the Netherlands, refugees who have obtained a residency...

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The urban dormitory: Reducing the negative consequences of studentification in small-sized university cities

Bacani, Jasmine (author)

Globalized universities located in small cities are expanding at a rate beyond the spatial capacity of its host city. The resulting presence of student housing in these cities known as ‘studentification’, have cascading social, cultural, economic, and spatial impacts that lead to, in particular, a lack of co-existence and tolerance between the...

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From Peril to Promise: Towards a Socially Resilient Urban Village, the Case of Dongguan

Zhao, Mia (author)

Rural migrants are being evicted from China’s metropolis. Urban villages used to be a refuge for rural migrants fleeing excessive living expenses, where they might find reasonable housing, social connections, and even work opportunities. However, as these villages are now being redeveloped mainly to create land revenues for local municipalities,...

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