Next, Chinatown: community design for transforming Rotterdam Chinatown

This report examines the role of an urban designer in a multicultural society. When an urban society is overlapped with a spatial and diverse cultural layer, a cultural community is seen as the essential unit for outreaching and interacting with this complex environment. Community design is required for an urban designer to explore the...

Public Involvement and Continuous Change: Architectural Framework for Change: Cultural Community Center Grasbrook

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In less densely populated areas and cities (like Maastricht) of the Netherlands vacancy is a social issue. Vacancy is caused by a decrease of demand for <br/> shrinkage), creating an excessive offer of, real estate. This ´spatial shrinkage´ is related to the demographic and economic shrinkage that is characteristic of our times; a ´new reality´....

Bridging the Bulevar: Transforming the former frontline in Mostar, by using the existing network of public space in the city.

The war in former Yugoslavia has been over since 15 years, but in a lot of cities and communities the consequences of this time are still remarkable; not only by observing the condition of buildings or spaces, but also in the way the society has developed in these cities. One of them is Mostar. The city is also known by the post-war situation...

From public to public

This graduation project has the goal to design a series of courtyards and well-functioning culture center in the historic city block of Antwerp.

Resistance Places: Places of Tension between Power and Subversion, Cases of Sultanbeyli and Gaziosmanpasa in Istanbul

This thesis aims to construct a theoretical and analytical framework in order to investigate mobilities of migrant groups in two peripheral neighbourhoods of Istanbul, Turkey, Gaziosmanpasa and Sultanbeyli, within the course of everyday. By theoretical framework, it means a spatial model, which investigates the spatial practices within generic...