The Inverted Estate: Reimagining inverse town planning to stimulate an improved human-nature connection, a case study for the Haagse Beemden

The Haagse Beemden in Breda is a neighbourhood that is designed towards the concept of the ‘’inverse town planning’’. In this concept, the underlying landscape structures the layout of the neighbourhood, resulting in an urban area with the landscape at its core. In the case of the Haagse Beemden this means that the neighbourhood was built around...

Cauliflower Revisited: The regeneration of cauliflower neighbourhoods using an environment -behaviour approach

This graduation research uses an environment-behaviour approach to regenerate cauliflower neighbourhoods (bloemkoolwijken). This was applied to Kesteren (part of compostie cauliflower neighbourhood the Haagse Beemden, Breda). The theoretical framework focusses on aspect such as: liveability, public space, environment-behaviour, spatial cognition...