Challenges of Urban Living Labs towards the Future of Local Innovation

Finding new approaches to overcome complex urban problems such as climate change has always been of interest to policymakers and academics. The changing dynamics of urban development result in the diversification of new practices during which experimentation is used to inform urban practice. Amongst these approaches, urban living labs (ULLs)...

Living next to a flagship development: Research on creating mutual, local benefits between the residential neighbourhood Van der Pekbuurt and the contemporary flagship area Overhoeks Amsterdam, in socioeconomic and spatial terms

Since the 1980s, many flagship developments appeared in de-industrialised cities: high-profile and prestigious land and property developments which play an influential and catalytic role in urban regeneration. The research focuses on the flagship development Overhoeks in Amsterdam and its effects on the adjacent neighbourhood Van der Pekbuurt....

Land-Skap Production

This project is a discourse analysis of the local and metropolitan area, at the edge of the city, Amsterdam. It questions the forces which had the impact on its metro and local structures up until now, and tries to design a production masterplan (Land-Skap) as an invert fact of undesirable forces over new developments. The goal is to to improve...