Reconcile railway with city

Integrate Schiedam Centrum Railway Station and its surroundings into local urban context with a view to the Transit-Oriented Development strategy

Travel to Justice:The Research on social-spatial effect of Transit Oriented Development in China

This document is the final report for 2012-2013 Graduation project in “Complex Cities” studio. It focus on the social issues related with public transportation in urban area with the theory of “ Transport poverty”. The target city is Shenzhen, China, which is a 30-year-old city. Transit oriented development has been largely used here for urban...

Car-Free Development in landside airport areas: Towards Low Car(bon) policies for airport commuters

Approximately 200,000 individuals travel to & from Schiphol Airport daily through various means such as cars, taxis, buses, shuttles, trains, motorcycles, scooters, and bicycles. With this perspective, Schiphol Airport is the largest mobility hub in the whole Netherlands, making accessibility a critical aspect. The Schiphol Group is...

Implementing a supportive public space network in Shenzhen new CBD

Public space should be a node for social integration (Jacobs, J. 1961/1969; Carmona, M. 2003). The proposed project will search for a new model for organization of its public spaces exploring possible functional and physical integration, towards forming a cohesive public space network, that is to say, a network to be able to support the new mix...

Urban Impact on Major Lithuanian Cities of Rail Baltica Line: Kaunas Case

In recent decades, the relevance of the railway as a more sustainable alternative for (inter)national commuting has increased significantly. Moreover, contemporary railway stations are becoming not only important mobility hubs where national and local transportation systems are interlinked but also new city centres offering a variety of...

Integration Across Railway: Integrate the Backside Surrounding of Xi'an Central Station to the City as a Whole and Towards the Historic Urban Center

The aim of this thesis is to improve the central station area in Xi'an, China, by crossing the barrier of railway, the busy road and the city wall, to connect the two sides that having specific identities in different parts.

Historic Religious Identity, Ray Urban Dignity: Searching Planning perspective at the neglected historic religious district to revive the local quality as a promoter of urban cohesion in different scales

Ray as the most historic city in Iran is an example of the neglected district that today religion shaped its identity and spatial configuration. In Fact the rapid growth of urbanization and migration in Tehran after the modernization, resulted polarization that affected on Ray, physically and socially and led to separate Ray from the rest of...

Community living circle along station influencing realm: Exploring the relationship between the community living circle and rail station influencing realm in a mountainous urban context

China is facing the dual challenges of urbanization and motorization（Jing, 2008）. The poorly organized urban centers and traditional residential planning are unable to meet the increasingly diverse demand of people. To solve these problems, the TOD model and the emerging community living circle are being favored by policy makers. Promoting urban...

Transit Oriented Development: A study into the relation between spatial developments and public transport use

Public transport use and spatial developments have always influenced each other. During the last decade governments are more and more trying to get grip onto this process via different types of policy tools. One of these tools is Transit Oriented Development (TOD). In TOD the use of existing and new public transport network is stimulated by...

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...

Stationshus: A Scandinavian influenced approach and design for a strategic multi-modal intervention in Rotterdam South

Rotterdam South the largest problematic neighbourhood in the Netherlands and deals with large social and spatial problems. With the development of a Stationshus a large intervention is made, that connects the area to the national Intercity railway network and that at the same time forms a new centre for Rotterdam South, that connects the...

Integration of transport & land-use: The case of the Leiden-Gouda area

If we think of large scale infrastructure projects in the Netherlands that have been developed recently we might come to the conclusion that the number of completed projects in terms of rail infrastructure is very limited. And if someone might ask to give a successful example of a railway line that has been developed last years it is hard to...