How IOT solutions can help policymakers monitor heat and air quality in urban areas as a part of their smart city strategy?

Cities are the centres of communication, commerce, and culture. Although, more than 80% of global GDP is generated in urban districts, the cities consume two-thirds of global resources and produce more than 70% of global CO2 emissions. Rising population, escalating urban pollution, the effects of climate change urge cities to search for...

Classifying Pathways for Smart City Development: Comparing Design, Governance and Implementation in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi

The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) as the new paradigm of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and rapid changes in technology and urban needs urge cities around the world towards formulating smart city policies. Nevertheless, policy makers, city planners, and practitioners appear to have quite different expectations from...

Polycentricity, Performance and Planning: Concepts, Evidence and Policy in Barcelona, Catalonia

Despite strong efforts made by scholars to study the polycentric spatial organization of agglomeration in metropolitan areas, there is still no consensus about the conceptualization (i.e., identification and measurement) of polycentricity and its economic, social, and environmental (dis)advantages. Additionally, little is known in the policy...

Transit Hub Provençals: An exploration of new urban networks and advanced infrastructure

Provençals Transit hub is situated in Barcelona’s 22@ district, one of the last parts of the Cerda grid within the city center, being transformed to a more contemporary urban tissue. The project primarily deals with the new mobility model. Advanced infrastructure networks and nodes within this system will be the base and footprint for the design...

Legacy strategies for future Olympic host cities

Research consists of an intensive literature study of five preceding summer Olympic Games and an in-depth case study of the London 2012 Olympics. In all cases the legacy-planning during the process is analysed and evaluated by making use of a strategic model. In the end the lessons learned from preceding Games and London are converted into...

Urban strategies and post-event legacy: The case of summer Olympic cities

Mega-event strategies and their impact on host cities have drawn increasing interest, as organising large-scale urban events has become part of a deliberate urban policy strategy to promote local economic growth, improve the city image and put the host city on the world agenda. Most cities stressed exploring city marketing and reimaging effect...

Barcelona: Energy + Urban Form

Contemporary cities, established largely around stable supplies of materials and plentiful access to energy sources, will be seriously affected by sudden changes in supply - particularly if technology cannot cater for consumption demands. This thesis explores energy consumption and energy dependency, framed in terms of urban density, using the...

Constructing the in?between metropolitan landscapes: An open space strategy for the Barcelona Metropolitan Region

The thesis attempts to understand the processes of metropolization occurred during the last decades in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region in terms of change of scale, new functions and physical transformations of the urban landscape. The dispersed and fragmented landscapes of expansion are analyzed to understand which are the elements of conflict...

Evaluatie resultaten Innotrack

In het kader van het 6de Europese onderzoeksprogramma is het Innotrack onderzoek uitgevoerd. Door verschillende Europese belanghebbenden is gemeenschappelijk onderzoek gedaan naar kosteneffectieve oplossingen voor spoorwegen. De nadruk lag op innovatieve oplossingen die met een beperkte investering de onderhoudskosten kunnen reduceren. Vanuit...

Diagonaal op de Diagonal

Ontwerp voor een woongebouw in Barcelona

Leisure Coast City: A comparative history of the urban leisure waterfront. Barcelona. Chicago. Buenos Aires. 1870-1930

*** NOTIFICATION *** With reference to this thesis, I express my debt to Dr. Sonia Berjman’s numerous and pioneer publications on Buenos Aires landscape history, which were not only inspiring but also the basis of my analysis of Courtois, Bouvard, Thays, Carrasco brothers, Forestier and other landscaper’s works in that city. This chapter 4 would...

Montjuïc, her-bergt de stad

Graduation project on rethinking the position of the mountain Montjuïc in Barcelona. Project rethinks what the mountain means to Barcelona as a citypark and how to reemphasize this. And develops a plan for reconnecting the entrance to the Montjuïc from the city centre and harbour front. With the development of a hotel, the Parador + as a meeting...

Towards undivided cities in Western Europe: New challenges for urban policy: Part 2 Barcelona

Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment The city of the Hague The Netherlands Graduate School of Housing and Urban Research NETHUR Delft University of Technology, OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, Study Centre for the Metropolitan Environment