Inclusive neighbourhoods across urban waters: A spatial design for intensifying socio-ecological resilience in communities in Addis Ababa positioned between tradition and transition

The world is urbanising rapidly, with the Global South as the part of the world with the most rapid urbanisation. The urban population of Ethiopia is predicted to nearly triple in 25 years. The swiftness of urbanisation is resulting in extreme challenges. It causes, reinforced by climate change, that Addis Ababa is increasingly affected by...

Metropolis Amsterdam: Towards a Metropolitan condition in the Randstad

All over the world cities are growing, one of the positions towards dealing with this growth is that it should be realized mostly by densifying the existing fabric and realizing a high density in new developments. This trend makes considerations on the relationship of density and the architectural form, the consequences high density has on the...

All for one or ... one for all?

The housing estate of Nieuw Kattenburg is a Late-Modernist housing area consisting of many system-built slab buildings. This has been offering affordable housing and was built by the municipality of Amsterdam over fifty years ago. It is situated adjacent to the Amsterdam marine terrain which is now in the process of decommissioning and will be...