Making Space for Light Industry: An Examination of Light Industry Integration through Mixed-use in Amsterdam's Transformation Areas

The presence of industry within the urban environment is gaining significant traction in a number of cities around the world. It’s growth and importance is fuelled by technology advancements that support both traditional local industry and advanced manufacturing. However, there is a lack of a vision and clear approach regarding industry in...

The role of the individual’s perception: Insights into the lived experience of partnering in Dutch Urban Development Projects

As Dutch Urban Development (UDM) and Partnering research seem to somewhat disconnectedly explore each other’s fields, this thesis attempts to join both domains by gaining insights into factors that promote the emergence of partnering relations between individuals working in Dutch Urban Development Projects (UDPs). Applying a practice-based...

Sharing Sustainability: The concept of sharing in collaborative housing for more sustainable cities.

Recent societal developments, as well as environmental problems like global warming, demand more socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable lifestyles and dwellings. Collaborative housing describes a possible path to meet those demands by sharing spaces and goods. To determine how the concept of sharing in collaborative housing can...

Creative neighbourhood initiatives: Exploration and advice

Last two decades, the creative city theory has been the main source of inspiration for urban regeneration approaches (Krätke in Brenner et a. (eds.), 2012). Researchers like Landry, Hall and Florida stated creativity as the new engine of economic growth and urban development (Florida, 2002; Hall, 2000; Landry, 1996). However, urban regeneration...

‘A New City in the Port’: An actor centered institutional analysis of the strategic governance and planning process around Amsterdam Haven-Stad

In December 2017, the municipality of Amsterdam announced the development of a new city in its port: Haven-Stad. The plan comprises a redevelopment strategy to transform port lands towards a mixed use urban area with up to 70.000 dwellings. This announcement caused a conflict between port users and the city. This integration of various...

Project-Related Governance: Between Effective Process and Inclusive Development: The Case of the Cape Town Waterfront

The challenge of an effective governance process and the demand for inclusive development form a tension, traceable in contemporary (Re)development Projects in South Africa. Based on the legislative premise of urban planning and architectural design, private sector developers must engage with urban authorities in the Project-related Governance...

Dealing with succes in the city centre: The impact of tourism on commercial amenities and corresponding policy response

Innovation District Development in Dutch practice: an exploration on the role of the built environment with recommendations on role-taking by local public authorities in innovation district development: the Case of the Merwe-Vierhavens & RDM – as part of the CityPorts project

This research explores the roles local public authorities can deploy in innovation district planning and development and the spatial conditions and interventions they should enhance to stimulate innovation through the built environment. Because cities are promoting and investing in new locations to agglomerate knowledge-intensive activities on a...

Towards energy transition in the built environment: The process towards energy efficient implementations in large urban areas

Cities strive to move towards a more sustainable city. In the process of energy transition in the built environment, moving from usage of fossil fuels towards renewable energy is the process obstructed which results which result in little or no action. This research will focus on several cases in Europe and analyse the cases with a focus on its...