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Technology campuses and cities: A study on the relation between innovation and the built environment at the urban area level

This thesis examines the development of technology campuses and their role in stimulating innovation. The main result of this thesis is a model for understanding and managing the relationship between the built environment and innovation at the urban area level. This model developed mainly throughout an inductive approach in two core studies. The...

Shanghai City strategy 2050: Road map to knowledge city

Intelligently-Sustainable Cities? Assessing the contribution of Intelligent and Knowledge City Programmes to the achievement of urban sustainability

The current challenges that the world is facing are urging us to re-think the structure and functioning of our social and economic systems. A critical paradigm shift is required if issues such as climate change, growing poverty, depletion of natural resources and uncertain energy futures are to be effectively solved. Global leaders and...

Developing knowledge cities: Aligning urban, corporate and university strategies

The successful development of knowledge cities increasingly depends on collaboration between urban and regional authorities, knowledge institutions and businesses. Policy makers and business strategists do acknowledge the interrelated objectives of these actors in the knowledge economy and their different roles in a common network. They also...

Urban Symbiosis: Interweaving TU Delft in a knowledge environment

Innovation Backbone: A new economic zone in Rio de Janeiro’s urban voids

The goal of this research is to develop an strategic intervention that could enhance Rio de Janeiro’s economy in an inclusive manner. Why? Because Rio has been developed under a process of socio-spatial segregation which has engendered high urban criminality, obstructing the city’s enormous potential as a leading international destination. In...

Delft, for knowledge and people: Connecting the Knowledge City with its citizens

In the last decades of the 20th century, there has been a shift from the industrial towards the knowledge and service economy. Cities also join this trend, by presenting themselves as ‘knowledge cities’. The Knowledge City is “a city that was purposefully designed to encourage the nurturing of knowledge”. The city of Delft presented itself from...

Living on Crunchy Street: Redesigning the site of the departing Calve/DSM factory in Delft as a socially sustainable district

A design was made for the Calve/DSM site in Delft. It is a factory site which is being abandoned by its users, leaving 16 ha to be developed in the coming future. The aim is to develop a socially sustainable creative district through means of self-organisation. The project is restricted to the borders of the design location and takes the open...