"Xiangcun", As A Landscape Productivity: Sustainable Countryside for Urban-rural Integration in the Greater Bay Area

The countryside is standing at the cross of its destiny due to rapid urbanization. Influenced by the historical dual urban-rural relationship, the countryside in China was regarded as the sacrifice of regional modernization. Since the reform and opening up, a miraculous expansion of cities could be seen within the Great Bay Area (GBA). However,...

Edible Landscapes: Towards a more resilient and self-sustainable agricultural production system

My thesis is called “Edible Landscapes” where I inquire/analyse/propose a more resilient and self-sustainable agricultural production system.The populations around the world continue rising. The projected statistics suggest that by 2050 the world’s population will likely increase by >35% and in order to feed the increasing population we need...

The Noordoostpolder: A Landscape Planning Perspective on the Preservation and Development of Twentieth-Century Polder Landscapes in the Netherlands

The Netherlands has a centuries-long tradition of reclaiming land. In the last century gaining land from water peaked with the IJsselmeerpolders, made possible by technical innovations. The Noordoostpolder (1937–1942), one of the IJsselmeerpolders, is a unique example of a fully designed agricultural landscape of the twentieth century. It is the...

New perspective on the [food] landscapes in MRA 2050: Developing a new perspective & design for resilient and attractive agricultural landscapes in the metropolitan region of Amsterdam in 2050

The purpose of this graduation report is to give an overview and inspiration on the route towards a resilient & attractive metropolitan [food] landscape of Amsterdam in 2050. The topic of research is the impact of climate change, unsustainable agriculture and urbanisation towards 2050, on the agricultural landscapes in the metropolitan...

Ecological Farming Landscape: A spatial solution for agricultural sustainability in the polders around Zoetermeer

A large part of the Dutch landscape is used by agriculture, and the two are strongly related. However, the current agricultural system has problems with sustainability, leading for example to the loss of biodiversity, soil degradation, water pollution and high emissions of greenhouse gases. Besides ecological issues, economic and social problems...

Farming Guangming: Integrating agricultural landscape and new town development for the “Green City” Guangming in Shenzhen

Hundreds of new towns are being built or planned today in China, which mostly remove the existing agricultural landscape. The study is motivated by a very simple question: instead of being eaten up by new towns, can agricultural landscape perform more actively in the process of development? I pick Guangming, a new town being built in Shenzhen,...

IJsselmonde regional park: A regional park design as strategy for the development of the fragmented open space at IJsselmonde

Aim of thesis In this thesis, a regional park design is used as a strategy for the development of leftover open space at IJsselmonde, as a solution to the spatial and indentity problems at IJsselmonde. Findings/conclusion Using a landscape approach, regional park IJsselmonde is a park that is designed to recover the relationship between the city...

Landscape Perception: A spatial design strategy for Dongeradeel, Friesland