Green Belts Revisited: Rethinking and reconfiguring the spatial relationship of city and its adjacent countryside in north west European metropolitan regions: the case of the Randstad’s Green Heart

This project promotes building regional capacity by means of collaborative planning in order to co-evolve with change. It is not about weighting alternative solutions or leaving things to the market, but about cooperation between actors from the public, private and business sector, each with their own knowledges that can be employed to build...

Recognizing Synergetic Conditions for Cohabitation: Proposing an Alternative Method for Acknowledging Local Level Potentialities into the Municipal Decision-Making Process

This graduation project explores and shows an alternative method for assessing and intervening in the public space of peri-urban neighborhoods. Where it combines the potentialities of public space and the public space network under the societal trend of migration from affluent residents to these peri-urban neighborhoods. The aim of the project...

In de vaart der volkeren? Ruimtelijke strategie voor een veenkoloniaal woondorp in Zuidoost Drenthe

Child Friendly Cities: The Case of Wroclaw in Poland

Like many other cities in Europe, Wroc?aw in Poland aims to improve the livability of children by implementing sustainable urban mobility measures, but fails to be successful. Due to an ongoing outflow of families from the city to the periphery and region, a vicious circle of an ongoing increase in car use has occured which increasingly...

Developing beyond LIMITATIONS: A flexible MODEL of new urban structure responding to the future needs of the valley-city XINING

Seeding Centrality: Organic upgrading urban rural syndicate in South Beijing

The ongoing urban plans and designs in China may have provided an improper model of making cities. They do not consider the complex nature of city and take little into consideration of the welfare of people. Then, the question comes, what is a proper model of building cities? A city serves as a receptacle of life. There are various lifestyles co...

Leisure City: Transforming from traditional fishing village to sustainable oriented tourism city – the case of Penghu, Taiwan

The rapid development of tourism has become a key aspect of local economy in many cities. Meanwhile, the demand of leisure and recreational activities in the city also give urban planner another task to deal with. Combined with sustainable tourism and urban regeneration, the leisure city idea might provide a direction for sustainable urban...

MILE END CIRCUS: Exploring A New Centrality For East Enders towards Social Integration in the Post Olympic Age

The Project is started with the doubt whether the Olympic Games will bring benefits not only to the city but also to the locals. In order to promote the urban development towards social integration to achieve the mayor's vision of London that a global city with economic growth, social inclusivity and improved environment in the five deprivest...

Hong Kong - Shenzhen Metropolitan Park Development: A sustainable and mutual benefit development plan for the cross-border area between Hong Kong and Shenzhen

This final thesis report is a specific plan and research project of the cross-border area between Hong Kong and Shenzhen metropolis. The aim is looking for a sustainable and mutual benefit development strategy of cross-border area between the metropolitan area which is under highly urbanization and conurbation process. The main approach is using...

Shifting Gravity

The aim of this research is to find an answer on the question of how we should deal with situations where there has been a very large expansion -which results in a shifting gravity point- and we have to search for densification opportunities within existing urban areas. In these situations the new basis of the housing area at the edge of the...