Shanghai’s Regenerated Industrial Waterfronts: Urban Lab for Sustainability Transitions?

In China, Shanghai often serves as a place to introduce and try out new ideas. This is certainly the case with experimental urban planning and design solutions and sustainability transitions. This article identifies and evaluates the role of pilot projects and demonstration zones along the Huangpu River. These clusters and zones are supposed to...

Deconstructing the Superblock: Urban Transformation of the Superblock in Shenzhen City to shape more livable communities

This project addresses the many inhuman-scale superblocks that have resulted from the rapid urbanization of China over the past decades. These superblocks suffer from problems such as poor accessibility and a monotonous urban landscape. This project begins with a review of the development of superblocks in the West and in China, where...

Liveability in Shrinking Cities

It is expected more cities in Europe are going to encounter shrinkage because of changing demographics. Shrinkage can also occur because of a negative migration balance. When a city shrinks, municipalities take measures on the urban hardware, software and mindware in order to maintain the liveability for the remaining residents. This research...

See you at heritage: A new urban regeneration approach based on heritage revitalization for South Luogu Lane area, Beijing

The story of this project starts with the bad relationship between resident, tourists and the heritage sites. Firstly, local residents’ existence is not being acknowledged as part of the heritage. Secondly, tourists cannot find open heritage site easily because of excessive commercialization and unreadable space. Thirdly, there is a bad social...

A Creatively Inclusive London?: Nomadic urban creative clusters as drivers of socio-economic integration and spatial quality in peripheral urban areas

As the creative industries started gaining their recognition as beneficial forces for socio-economic transformation in the 1990s, there have been plenty of discussions regarding such phenomenon in urban planning policy and academia. While certain sectors of creative industries are enjoying the economic growth brought by globalisation, some...

Bold Cities: Building a decision-making supportive tool through exploration of BOLD methods to assess sustainability in landscape architecture projects

Projects of re-use of underused infrastructures to design sustainable urban landscape architecture represent a great contribution to meet the need for sustainability cities are experiencing today. Urban administrators often strive for a successful realization of such projects, to give a social and economic power impulse to poorly performant...

Downtown is rising up! The revitalization of the city centre of Hengelo

Emptiness of retail floor space is a well known phenomenon in todays real life. In this thesis a programmatic intervention is suggested of how to reorganise the retail function of the city centre of Hengelo in order to diminish the amout of emptiness. Next to this new program typologies are introduced for the location so also suggestions are...