Public Space Resiliency in Dar es Salaam: Investigating the qualities of public space resiliency in central Dar es Salaam to inform the strategic design of the Lower Msimbazi Redevelopment masterplan.

A masterplan, commissioned by the Municipality of Dar es Salaam aims to redevelop the Lower Msimbazi River Basin with new urban development. In the context of rapid urbanisation and sustainable development, uncovering the relationship between public space and resiliency as mediated by urban form is essential to contribute to resilient master...

Isovist Fingerprinting as new way of Indoor Localisation

Nowadays, humans rely in technology more and more when it comes to navigation and localisation and in many aspects of life as well. While most concepts related to localisation and navigation of outdoors environments are already well derived from various researches and softwares, the indoor environment remains a significantly unexplored area....

The search for cycling routes: Analysing the influence of spatial characteristics on cycling route choices in Amsterdam

In recent years, cycling has attracted increasing attention as a sustainable alternative to private car use. In cities across the world, strategies are put in place to improve existing cycling infrastructure. This raises the question of how cyclists move through a city and what part of the road network attracts the most cyclists. Prior studies...

The Urban Game: Design of a Health Center in Nijmegen

The central point of the thesis is formulation and testing of a design method with a strong focus on the user activity and personal experience in the designed space. The design algorithm consists of a series of iterative steps based on architectural and sensorial sequences of activities.<br/>The experimental method was tested in the process of...

New town modeling: Reviewing Dutch new towns via quantitative methods to provide appropriate tools and strategy for accelerating Chinese new town development, using songjiang new town as the test case

China turned to the Open-Policy in 1978 and began its rapid urbanization process. To handle the urgent demand from working migration and reduce the problems triggered by congestion in mega cities, decentralization and new towns are widely accepted by Chinese urbanists and politicians. However, new towns in China lost their urbanity in the...

Going High Speed: Urban railway development by the advent of a new high speed rail

Abstract – ‘As one station planner stated, the list of cities that are relevant in Europe nowadays equals the list of cities included in the HST network; this may not be entirely true in fact, but it is increasingly the way things are perceived, which makes it a reality in effect.’ (Trip, 2007). The high speed train links main city centers from...

Analysis methods for the regeneration of Dutch problem neighbourhoods

This research is looking for an integral approach in regenerating Dutch problem neighbourhoods. With an integral approach is meant an approach that combines spatial and social measures. This is currently missing in practice and theory of urbanism and results often in the replacement of problems instead of the solving of problems.

From nodes to centralities: Creating new pedestrian urban vitality under the background of upcoming public transportation systems

Two new rapid public transportations systems is coming out in the city of Hefei, the capital city of Anhui, eastern China, which is in its dramatically urban exploding process. Based on the TOD theory and urban configuration theory for researching on natural movement. This thesis proposes a cutrual and commercial center in the main station area...

Transforming a mobility node in the city of Zwolle

When it comes to user-friendliness and the relations to the city centre, a lot of station areas need improvement. The aim of this graduation project was to transform the station area of Zwolle into an inviting, user-friendly and well-connected part of the city. The result is a design (based on research) that shows the potential for the inviting,...