Preserving Historic Catholic Churches: The Case for Adaptive Reuse in Future Conservation

This thesis discusses the heritage approach of adaptive reuse as a way to preserve and protect abandoned churches in Limburg. For this, a discussion is had on the social and cultural dynamic and history of Limburg. This is a province in the Netherlands with a deep historical connection to the Catholic religion. This paper explores the province’s...

The Impact of the Sociological Role of the Stakeholder on the Sustainability of the Economic Benefits of Cultural Heritage Transformation: the Cockatoo Island as an Example

Waterfront cultural heritage has unique historical, scientific, social and aesthetic values that can provide an excellent platform and starting point for urban design. The Cockatoo Island has significant differences in these values, which make it complex and contradictory in the subsequent tourism-oriented transformation, and even create a...

Land and Farmers Equilibrium: Restoring the balance between land and humans in Northern Friesland

The agricultural landscape in the Netherlands has changed drastically over the course of the last 70 years. After World War II, it was governmental policy that pushed the transition to intensive farming by giving out subsidies. These developments have also had an impact on the province of Friesland, where agriculture has a long history and is...

Reinventing rurality: Exploring ways to revitalize Mastorochoria of Konitsa, Greece

The thesis deals with the possibilities of spatial planning in a non-urbanized<br/>context. The case study, examined, is the municipal unit of Mastorochoria of<br/>Konitsa, Greece. The first chapter focuses on the spatial and socio-economic<br/>agglomeration taking place in Greece, as Athens and -less- Thessaloniki concentate<br/>the largest...

Heritage of the ordinary: an alternative view: Strategies for using cultural heritage sites as a driver of sustainable urban [re]development in Piraeus

This thesis explored urban strategies for harnessing diverse types of cultural heritage of the ordinary urban environment in order to achieve sustainable urban development. During the past century, urban expansions took place without any special regard towards existing cultural heritage expressions. Despite the significant role of heritage in...

Good Hope (Memorial) Park: A future for dissonant heritage, a design for hope and democracy

This thesis and design explores the dissonance of the 17th century heritage object of the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town. The research explains the theme of dissonant heritage together with an excerpt of the South African national history in part one. Part two explains the changes of the Castle over time, as military landscape, as object in a...

Design for User Engagement on Europeana Channels

As the EU’s most visible expression of European digital heritage, Europeana has established itself as a reference point for European culture on the Internet. With the ambition of moving forward to transform in to an open platform for discovery and re-use of heritage content, Europeana Europeana started up a new project- Europeana Channels....

Delft’s history revisited: Semantic Web applications in the cultural heritage domain

While at one side there is an ever increasing movement within cultural heritage organizations to offer public access to their collection-data using the Web, on the other the Semantic Web, fueled by ongoing research, is growing up to be a mature and successful addition to the Web. Nowadays, these two sides are joining forces, combining the large...

High tide in the polder, searching for a new relation between city, land and water in Almere East

Lugu Lake: Tourism planning and urban design in the rural area