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Nam, Seowoo (author)
Urban forests are now digitalized as smart green infrastructures to mitigate environmental change. Cities are proactively planting and replacing trees considering their future ecosystem benefits, such as carbon sequestration, urban heat reduction, and water retention. Digital twin simulation is a key technology enabling this particular mode of...
master thesis 2023
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Han, Ailin (author)
The urban heat island effect refers to increased temperatures in highly developed urban areas and has negative impact for human activities and the social environment. This project aims to address this effect by integrating urban forests into the cityscape, while enhancing the living experience of residents.<br/><br/>The project focuses on...
master thesis 2023
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Druschke, Luis (author)
Cities are constructed with extractive, finite resources that put enormous pressure on global climatic conditions. The building and construction sector is responsible for 36 percent of the global energy demand and 37 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions worldwide. With the prospect of massive urbanization, the built environment will...
student report 2023
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Keizer, Sanne (author)
With nearly 70% of people living in cities by 2050 (United Nations, 2018), our urban environments are being put to the test, with more severe and frequent heat waves, droughts, floods, ongoing biodiversity loss, air pollution, and land subsidence. To sustain and increase the liveability and climate resilience of cities, the design and...
master thesis 2023
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van Calmthout, Floris (author)
Brownfields can bring forward unique spatial qualities in the urban environment: spatial exceptionality, re-usable infrastructures &amp; imperfection that could bring forward the experience of being in a whole other world, while being in the middle of a city. However, these sites are often deconstructed, because they lack a direct financial or...
master thesis 2023
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Meert, Sander (author)
"Brussels was never destroyed by the wars, but rather by its own people" these words of Victor Bourgouis show the destructive vision of social and cultural spaces in Brussels. The city's vision of urban development is based on top-down politics, fed by the desire to be modern. This affection leads to the non-identification and displacement of...
master thesis 2023
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Koppes, Ruben (author)
As space in urban environments becomes more precious, planning for a nature inclusive infrastructure needs to be considered using a multi-layered approach to ensure effective urban foresting. Therefore, this research focusses on the integration of urban ecologies, forest ecologies and the ecological relationship with the individual, to create...
master thesis 2022
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Dekker, Madelief (author)
A guide for the landscape architectural design of an urban forest that helps create realms of experience in order to make people more aware of our connection to nature.<br/><br/>The imbalance between how we live and how the natural world around us works leads to a disconnected relationship with nature. Because of this many people see nature that...
master thesis 2022
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Heuvelman, Stefan (author)
The Urban Forest Hotel Amsterdam is a hotel where guests, Amsterdammers and other visitors will find a small but profoundly natural forest of native trees within the city. It is a space where human and non-human animals can come and live together. Located besides the Artis zoo, it is a place that questions the future of the zoo and our...
master thesis 2022
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Zinsmeister, Machteld (author)
This thesis project, as part of the urban forest places graduation lab, focuses on the relationship between urban environments and the healing aspects of nature. Urban environments affect our body and state of mind, and are not always beneficial for our mental health. Landscape and urban design can do something about this. But the question is...
master thesis 2020
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Kannekens, Emma (author)
Currently cities are becoming more densified, resulting in overpopulated areas with fewer green spaces. Together with this rising health care expenses caused by mental health and current environmental design questions such as water nuisance, heath island effect, densification demands and creating a healthy living environment, leads to...
master thesis 2020
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Liu, Jianing (author)
In recent years, population ageing is becoming more and more of a challenge for cities to prepare for. Improving facilities for an all-age-friendly city can provide a healthy and supportive life for both the young and the old living in cities. One of the cities of interest in this is Amsterdam. Amsterdam has been exploring sustainable and...
master thesis 2020
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