Roadmap to Belonging: Urban planning as a tool to facilitate the sense of belonging of Syrian status holders in small towns in the Netherlands

Forced migration has been a significant struggle in the Netherlands, politically, socially, spatially and culturally. The costs of this struggle are paid by asylum seekers and status holders, living in uncertainty and isolation. This thesis discusses the position of Syrian status holders in the Netherlands, refugees who have obtained a residency...

Memories on reclaimed land: The defamiliarization of Weld Quay in George Town: How does the memory of place correlate with the transformation of Weld Quay over time and defamiliarizing the experience and perception of place?

Penang was once an important port along the Straits of Melaka, connecting the Indian and Pacific Oceans, serving as a major stop point for ships sailing between Asia, Europe and the Middle East. In the 19th century, the British colonial authorities decided to undertake a massive land reclamation project to expand harbour and trade activities,...

Openness is a matter of Ilumination: The relation between postmemory fiction-writing and spatial studies through the novel Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

This thesis explores the influence of space on the formation and preservation of postmemory through the literary novel Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, adapted to screen by Liev Screiber. The starting point of the research is an attempt at a better understanding of the roles of reality and fiction in the case of Trachimbrod,...

Renaissance of Cultural Identity-historic districts regeneration in Beijing inner city

The graduation project titled ‘renaissance of cultural identity-historical districts regeneration of Beijing inner city’ aims at researching the question about the role of cultural identity in the historical cities, specifically it is about testing and investigating proper ways to regenerate the historic districts in inner city of Beijing, in...