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Todorova, Izabel (author)Marginalised, dilapidated, deprived, often centres of crime, poor living conditions and even poorer life prospects. It is common knowledge that this is the reality of many urban areas in numerous mega cities and not only. Each developing country has struggled with uncontrolled urban sprawl in the rapid urbanization processes that commenced with...student report 2021
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Ma, W. (author)Chinese cities have experienced unprecedented economic growth and urban population expansion in the last four decades. However, a variety of social and environmental problems is associated with urbanization. Cities try to grapple with these challenges but simultaneously find themselves locked in an intense competition with other cities. City...doctoral thesis 2021
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van Stralen, Stan (author)The area of Amstel III will drastically change by 2040 into a lively urban district. This change allows for the rethinking of the urban metabolism of the area, to shorten the material cycles and by better utilization of resources. Through estimation and calculations on potential flows related to energy, water, and organic material the potential...master thesis 2020
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Suresh, Kavya (author)Chennai, a historical seaside city on the southern coast of India, has undergone extensive urbanisation ever since the postcolonial economic reform of the nineties. Mismanaged urban growth that predominantly prioritises economic development has led to a situation of congestion, lack of public space and forgotten ecological networks in the city....master thesis 2020
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Gkratsou, Georgia (author)During the past few decades urbanization has been occurring at a very fast pace, claiming new territories by spatial expansion and occupying the last precious open spaces that are left. Urban growth, in combination with rapid climate change and the neglect of ecological processes, has had severe negative effects on the environment. Therefore,...master thesis 2020
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Cavallo, R. (author)The relation between infrastructures and urban transformations is a complex matter. When we look at the Randstad, this part of the Netherlands is characterized by not only its urban development in the last 150 years, but also by the fact that the territory changed; herein geomorphology, waterways, and railroads play an important role. Since the...book chapter 2020
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Qu, L. (author), Li, Y. (author), Ghini, M. (author), Mukkamala, T. (author), Peng, B. (author), Mohamed Rani, Marina (author), Wu, J. (author), Zhao, X. (author)This publication presents the results of a design lab that explores landscape-based design approaches for adaptive urban transformation in fast urbanizing deltas. While using design as a research strategy landscape architecture principles are explored that ensure water safety and inclusive socio-ecological design. The projects as presented here...report 2020
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de Koning, Remco (author), Guan Zhen Tan, Wendy (author), van Nes, A. (author)Energy usage in cities is intertwined with its spatial configuration—the denser and more compact the city, the more concentrated and efficient the energy usage is to be expected. To achieve sustainable communities, cities (and their inhabitants) must reconsider its spatial configurations in the context of rapid urbanisation and growth in light...journal article 2020
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de Koning, Remco Elric (author), Roald, Hans Jacob (author), van Nes, A. (author)The municipality of Bergen in Norway aims to densify fifty per cent of new housing within the city’s central parts. The Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation ordered and financed an investigation to be carried out by the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and the consulting firm Asplan Viak to give research-based input to the...journal article 2020
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Míková, Daniela (author), Subačiūtė, Simona (author), de Graaf, Wessel (author), ZHOU, Yuerong (author)This research booklet brings together a selection of data and spatial analysis of Ethiopia’s and Addis Ababa’s urban transformation. This booklet uses historical maps, new maps and a selection of bibliographic references, to produce a wide range of graphic outputs that trace the urban transformation of Addis Ababa in seven stages, from its...student report 2019
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Sun, Chuanzhi (author), Nijhuis, S. (author), Bracken, G. (author)The Pearl River Delta (PRD) is a river dominated floodplain in southeast China. Decreasing space for water, through dike-ring construction, channelization, and urbanization, has led to increased flood risk from river, rain, and sea. To protect from flood risk, a more adaptive urbanization strategy is required; one takes into account a multiscale...journal article 2019
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Sun, Chuanzhi (author)The Pearl River Delta (PRD) is a river dominated floodplain in southeast China. Long known as one of the country’s richest agricultural regions, in recent years it has also become known as one of the world’s most densely urbanized areas. Decreasing space for water through dyke-ring construction, channelization and urbanization has led to...master thesis 2019
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Huang, Huang (author)The North Sea has played an important role in European urbanization. Coastal cities thrive on the basis of port economy; but also shrink significantly once the dominated industry recessed. Today, under the threat of climate change, port-dominated homogenous development becomes rather vulnerable to disturbances. Den Helder is the Wadden port-city...master thesis 2019
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- Havik, K.M. (author) journal article 2019
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Daamen, T.A. (author), Heurkens, E.W.T.M. (author), Hobma, Fred (author), van Zoest, S.P. (author)Bij stedelijke transformaties proberen we de bestaande gebouwde omgeving aan te passen aan onze huidige en toekomstige behoeften. Dat is echter makkelijker gezegd dan gedaan. Op het pad van transformatie bevinden zich nogal wat organisatorische, financiële, en juridische barrières. Tijdens een gebiedstransformatie is het bovendien noodzakelijk...report 2019
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Wang, Jie (author)The project is about the reverse of risks from changing climate and transitional energy system into opportunities to become evolutionary resilient cities.<br/>Climate change is happening globally and is becoming more and more serious now. The temperature rise, sea-level rise, land shifting, precipitation pattern change, extreme weather increase...master thesis 2018
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Zhu, K. (author)This paper investigates the unique urban planning history and demographic changes in Sinan Road (also named as Rue Massenet) Area of Shanghai and the socioeconomic impacts on local inhabitants’ living quality led by formal and informal planning dynamics. Examining both tangible and intangible characteristics of this area under five different...conference paper 2018
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Zhu, K. (author), Hein, C.M. (author)The state has owned most historical buildings since the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Residents within are entitled to the right to use the house in the form of a lease. After entering a free trade housing market in 1988, residents in historic neighbourhoods of Shanghai have been suffering uncertainty of their identities...conference paper 2018
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Toprak, I. (author), Ünlü, A. (author), van Nes, A. (author)This paper investigates the mutual effects of cultural diversity and neighbourhood change in three historic neighbourhoods in Istanbul. Through history, some neighbourhoods in Istanbul have been home for people from different cultural and religious backgrounds. In some of these neighbourhoods, cultural diversity still exists. Some other...conference paper 2017