"uuid","repository link","title","author","contributor","publication year","abstract","subject topic","language","publication type","publisher","isbn","issn","patent","patent status","bibliographic note","access restriction","embargo date","faculty","department","research group","programme","project","coordinates"
"uuid:e0ce887d-c65c-4464-87cf-9c091b5ab3a9","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e0ce887d-c65c-4464-87cf-9c091b5ab3a9","Urban Arid Green: A sustainable approach to address population growth and urbanisation in arid areas, via a case study to Tamansourt","de Wolf, Rosa (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Tillie, Nico (mentor); Aalbers, K.P.M. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","The climate crisis and unsustainable growth are worldwide interrelated problems. Population growth increases the demand for natural resources and the demand for housing. This is all putting pressure on the natural system and is strengthening the conflict of space between the built environment, agricultural land and the natural landscape. Drylands are expected to expand due to climate change and human activities. As the natural resources are already scarce in these regions, human societies who live there are challenged even more by population growth. Including the future generations. The conflict of space deteriorates the quality of life and space in these regions. To counteract this development, measures must be taken now.
This research proposal searches for an integral approach to sustainably address population growth and urbanisation in arid regions. This is done via a case study of the Moroccan new town Tamansourt. Tamansourt is one of the nineteen Moroccan new cities developed via the state-led national-scale Villes Nouvelles strategy. Tamansourt, Marrakech’s satellite city, is the first new town under this strategy, it is founded in 2004. The spatial analysis, site visit, and interviews conducted in this research show that the city of Tamansourt is still under construction. The city has not reached its target population nor its desired level of urban activity yet. However, environmental issues already manifest themselves in the city, which resulted in the national government’s aim to transform Tamansourt into an ecocity.
In the Urban Arid Green project, the vision Tamansourt Ecocity 2040: Regreen to Rewild is formulated. This is a proposal to advance on a transformative framework for Tamansourt towards an ecocity. This could help Tamansourt to reach its original goals, respond to current injustices and face the environmental crises at the same time.
To transition Tamansourt into an ecocity, systemic change is needed. The environment must be harnessed. The now degraded soil quality must be restored. This environmental change can be sparked by making optimal use of the limited amount of water. By educating, training and employing the local community, the ecocity can be co-created, using bottom-up initiatives and top-down support.
To support this systemic change, a common language among all future stakeholders is needed. This common language is developed as a set of urban development guidelines, patterns. This is a brief visual overview of all measures included in the systemic change, vision, and design of Tamansourt Ecocity 2040. The patterns focus on the biosphere and add to the original design guidelines for Moroccan new towns, which were developed by Al Omrane in 2010. Together, they form the Urban Arid Green pattern language which aims to sustainably address population growth and urbanisation in the arid region.
In the Urban Arid Green project, the case of Tamansourt is used to show how to translate these generic patterns and ecocity principles into a unique site-specific design. Design proposals on the neighbourhood scale are made for several key locations in the Tamansourt Ecocity 2040 vision. The design aims to formulate a framework for the stakeholders to use in the city’s transition towards an ecocity. This framework aims for a triple scope of better services, amenities, and connections on one hand and to counteract environmental decay and climate change variability on the other. Via an adaptive pathway approach, the process can adapt to future uncertainties, while learning from the past. This approach allows different scenarios to reach the Tamansourt Ecocity 2040 goal.
The process of applying these patterns to the Tamansourt Ecocity 2040 project was one of constantly adjusting, designing, and testing. By testing the method in Tamansourt, other arid landscapes that need to sustainably address population growth and urbanisation, can learn from this, and use it as a tool to communicate with all different stakeholders involved. Every landscape might need to add its own site-specific pathway to the pattern language. By this, the Urban Arid Green Language allows unique dialects for different landscapes.
Tamansourt sets the example to other urban arid areas, being the first new town ecocity, focused on a regenerative productive urban landscape.","(Un)sustainable growth; Aridity; Natural resources; New towns; Spatial quality; co-creation; Ecocities","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism","",""
"uuid:c2381c37-2abf-4b7a-8a1c-f72ad7442147","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c2381c37-2abf-4b7a-8a1c-f72ad7442147","Recycling the woonerf: A testcase for a circular woonerf","Jansen, Melanie (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Meijers, W.L.E.C. (mentor); Clarke, Nicholas (mentor); Quist, W.J. (graduation committee); Spoormans, L.G.K. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","Now almost 50 years old, the woonerf is challenged with social and technical deterioration, poor energy performance, misalignment of demographics and typology and an overall negative image. Because the housing stock consists of 20% of woonerf residents, there is considerable reason to seek for a solution to make this type of neighbourhood future-proof. In this national task to renovate and adapt entire neighbourhoods, there is another issue to consider: our linear consumption trends. The consequence of the linear economy is a worldwide waste crisis, pollution, and the depletion of finite resource. That is why we need to switch to circular consumption. Which means going from a take-make-dispose system to an economy in which resources are circulated. This project therefore combines the challenge of future-proofing the woonerf and the transition to circular consumption into a test case that aims to experiment with the woonerf as a circular neighbourhood. The final product is a research-informed design for the neighbourhood Goedewerf in Almere Haven.
visions, they deployed enormous resources and created supply for the economic and social aspects of urban life. However, today they remain vastly vacant and most of them contribute little to the region’s economy. The main research question of this research is: “How can attributes of urban competitiveness contribute to the development of sub-centres in new urban communities
of emerging economies?” To answer this question two of the eight developments around Cairo are comparatively analysed with regard to their urban competitiveness. Theories of urban economics and its spatial structure are
adapted for the context of this case-study. A new quantitative methodology is utilised to overcome data challenges in the context of emerging economies. Exploratory spatial data analysis is used to demonstrate the spatial distribution of socio-economic attributes and their relation to the resulting urban competitiveness. The comparison between city centre and NUCs is analysed to inform policies for urban growth using the framework developed in the literature review. The research highlights the importance of autonomous urban management for each NUC. This is carried out within a framework of a collaborative polycentric urban region that ensures the differentiated roles of each region. The urban competitiveness analysed shows the system of cities within the metropolitan region, and the potential emerging sub-centres in NUCs. The mapped socio-economic attributes establish the possible correlation
between urban competitiveness and access to
these attributes. They also show mismatches in supply
and demand, and shed light on particular effects of public
urban spending.","Urban Economics; New Towns; Urban Competitiveness; Cairo; Egypt","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Management in the Built Environment","","30.0444, 31.2357"
"uuid:00caf4a7-033b-4f79-94c1-c5f4308a0b92","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:00caf4a7-033b-4f79-94c1-c5f4308a0b92","Garden in the Machine","van der Woude, Daniel (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Pimlott, Mark (mentor); Rosbottom, Daniel (mentor); Koskamp, Gilbert (mentor); Reinders, Leeke (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","This project incorporates a wide range of cultural and historical references, using the archive footage of the construction of the Flevopolder, the Venetian polder landscape, Robert Smithson’s work on territories and mines and Roman mythology to construct a narrative about new towns, and new beginnings. Situated on the threshold between the machine landscape of industrial agriculture that is the Flevopolder, and the neo-liberal free-for-all development of Oosterwold, the project provides a communal space for the prospective agricultural communities around the site. The agricultural cooperative which would manage the project, would work together with a research institute experimenting with alternative methods of farming, and would form a council with representatives of the city, the institute and the forestry department to make decisions on the land use of the commons, and thus gaining agency. The project presents itself as an urban image in the countryside, and announcing itself as a new beginning of sorts, the start of a new history in which we are able to re-establish our relationship to the land. As the community works together with the city and the institution to practice and experiment with alternative forms of agriculture, there is an opportunity to undo the damage of modernised agriculture, introducing new minor rhythms into the landscape that make space for wild plants and animals.The building serves to represent thenatural histories of the territory, allowing the community to engage in a dialogue with the land, and being represented in their relationship to it.The first times of the city of Almere, and the fictions and histories of its territory can thus be understood in dialectic relationship, so that this project can indeed become a concrete utopia, and a new city, or at least a prototype of it.","Post-Anthropocene; Landscape; Territories; New Town; Agriculture; Architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","",""
"uuid:f77bec33-548a-4adc-94b9-a7e267bfa7e4","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f77bec33-548a-4adc-94b9-a7e267bfa7e4","An Alternative New Town Paradigm: Towards an Inclusive New Town in Kenya","Sekuła, Zuzanna (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Keeton, Rachel (mentor); Romein, Arie (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","Sub-Saharan Africa is often regarded as the world’s fasted urbanizing region. This implies the high demand for urban housing, infrastructure developments and services. In many cases, because the government is unable to provide solutions, it shifts the approach from “providing to enabling”, encouraging the private sector to invest in the built environment. This results in developing New Towns which tend to envision of “Africa Rising” Narrative - driven by rapid economic growth. Ideologically, New Towns should be the solution for economic and population growth, however, influenced strongly by private sector’s ambitions, governments’ visions and emerging middle-class’s desires, they tend to become an exclusive and luxurious development, excluding the majority of the population who simply cannot afford living there. This approach may lead to socio-spatial exclusion, resulting in socio-spatial segregation. This research discusses this phenomenon in the case study of Tatu City – a private New Town in Kenya that is partly built, partly under construction and partly in the design process. This research discusses the socio-spatial and governance challenges of Tatu City that have a direct and indirect impact on socio-spatial exclusion. It shows the variety of different perspectives on this issue – public sector’s, private sector’s, NGOs’ and civil society’s. Furthermore, based on theoretical and empirical research it presents the concept of Inclusive New Town and the concept of Inclusive Space In-Between as a response identifies challenges. The outcome of this research is a planning and design framework with a toolkit that was implemented in making the final design
- an Alternative Vision for Tatu city.","New Town; Kenya; Inclusive design; socio-spatial exclusion","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","-1.142666096, 36.95416285"
"uuid:263be026-303c-4bfa-8831-5a73941d2abc","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:263be026-303c-4bfa-8831-5a73941d2abc","Lelycentre Cultural Centre: Transforming a 70's building into a cultural centre whilst preserving young heritage","Mukhtar, Habiba (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Willers, Wouter (mentor); Warries, Ger (mentor); van Oel, Clarine (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","Lelystad's first commercial area, Lelycentre, was originally intended to be the starting point of the planned city centre in the first phase in 1964, emphasising the connection to the fourth planned polder of the Zuiderzeewerken. Markermeerpolder's rejection in the 80's meant that the decision was made to develop the city centre elsewhere causing Lelycentre lose its intended position. Today Lelycentre shopping centre, which once resembled Rotterdam’s Lijnbaan, serves the local communities with a quiet but healthy bustle of activity. However the majority of surrounding office buildings have gone through a series of changes in use over the last 40-50 years and are now vacant. One such building is the former police station, which the police vacated in 2018 in favour of a more central city location. The police station is integrated into Lelycentre's characteristic elevated infrastructure and boasts a unique and recognisable façade. It is positioned as the southern gateway into Lelycentre. In a masterplan wherein much of the existing vacancy is filled with housing, this work explores a situation where the former police station a.k.a. ZIJP gebouw is transformed into a cultural centre for new and existing residents. The main challenges are establishing a balance between the architectural qualities of the existing office building whilst introducing transparency, openness, accessibility in direct contrast to the existing monumentality and sense of anonymity. Preserving and revitalising the elevated infrastructure is key, whilst creating a new relationship with the transformed ground level. The final point is to design sustainably and introduce passive design concepts.","transformation; heritage & Architecture; Office vacancy; sustainability; cultural values; preservation; dutch new towns","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Heritage & Architecture","",""
"uuid:d7f939a7-f367-4448-a8cf-b8ac89aeb127","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d7f939a7-f367-4448-a8cf-b8ac89aeb127","Cities for People -of Tomorrow: Promoting Urban Vitality in the Masterplanning Process of Ecopark New Town, Hanoi, Vietnam","Pradana, Reza Ambardi (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Bet, Els (mentor); Bracken, Gregory (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","This research is dealing with the development of a new town in Hanoi, Vietnam. With many Hanoi new towns that are currently failing and on the brink of becoming ghost towns, this research aims to explore the way to design a new town that promotes urban vitality throughout the master planning process - not only in the design process. The main principle in this research is to understand how the local urban areas performed with spatial analysis and on-site observation i.e., Space Syntax analysis (Depthmap) and Public Life Studies (Gehl Institute) and then interpret and simulate it to the design of the new town. The design is then being evaluated through the urban vitality factors and masterplanning processes.","New Town; Urban Vitality; Masterplanning; Hanoi","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","","20.958984, 105.934182"
"uuid:a399ae70-d5d5-4cd5-88a4-d6581f57d44b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a399ae70-d5d5-4cd5-88a4-d6581f57d44b","Night and Fog of Hong Kong: Balancing development and polycentric urban model exploration of Hong Kong in Pearl River Delta, Urban regeneration strategies in search for improving cohesion at Tin Shui Wai new town within the Hong Kong extended region","Liu, Yanxin (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Sepulveda Carmona, D.A. (mentor); Calabrese, L.M. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","Due to the restricted functional collaboration between Hong Kong and Shenzhen Region as well as Pearl River Delta, the functional construction of Hong Kong Region becomes a mono-centric system which leads to a serious unbalanced development between its city centre and its peripheral new towns with great potential. However, the new planning document of both Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong are looking forward to an advanced cooperation between Hong Kong and Shenzhen into an extended region to explore new possibilities of Hong Kong development under the Pearl River Delta background.","Hong Kong; Tin Shui Wai; New Town; Poly-centric urban model","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Cities","",""
"uuid:6ae6c111-b1e2-4377-ac9d-101f88f8e4cf","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6ae6c111-b1e2-4377-ac9d-101f88f8e4cf","Controllable territory: Young professional friendly liveable neighbourhood","Yu, Peiran (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism)","van Dorst, M.J. (mentor); Nijhuis, S. (mentor); Keeton, R.E. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","This graduation project aims at creating liveability (in terms of well-functioning control on social relationship and sustainable green in direct home environment) in Xiongan New Town to hosting residents who cannot find a suitable place in Beijing. The great majority of them are young professionals. They are facing the problem that their ideal housing type, which provides quality of affordability (affordable rental housing), assessibility (connectivity to work place through public transportation) and liveable living condition (proper privacy, neither social cage or anonymous community without green) does not exist. Thus this project is in motion to create a more friendly neighbourhood for the young professionals through designing a liveable neighbourhood in terms of control of social interaction, sustainalbe green, affordable rental housing and a seamless public transportation system. Xiongan New Town is a proper location as it provides a larger range of possibilities for this neighbourhood spatially. However, Chinese New Towns are until now built with-out a out relation to their historical and ecological context. This leads to a proposal for an new town that relates to the local ecological and urban context and with references to the history of dwelling in the area. Therefore the objective is to design a infrastructure framework for a New Town and a fully designed liveable neighbourhood as a illustrative example of alternative design approach. Therefore the strategy is composed by two parts. Firstly, based on typology analysis, scenario analysis, case study, mapping, etc., I put forward a series of approaches for Xiongan new town in multiple scales (regional, city, district, neighbourhood) to provide a framework as precondition for a liveable neighbourhood. These approaches aim to achieve a balanced harmony between landscape and city, history and future development as context for neighbourhood design. Secondly, a spatial design focus on the qualities of control on social interaction, historical continuity and sustainable green. Spatial design in neighbourhood scale includes an integral framework and smaller interventions. A blue and green network based on water and topographic condition will be introduced. Accessible network and density hypothesis will be created on top of this landscape layer. Smaller interventions will be embedded into this framework, to show the possibilities of balancing density, creating legible territory, preserving historical continuity, achieving spatial integrality. Specifically, the neighbourhood will be composed of housing types of various density (matching potential density); it will be divided into multiple legible territories of various levels of privacy; historical connection will be provided through preserving parcellation patterns and existing buildings. Houses will be constructed by the method of layer construction to leave space for future development. Green space helps to combine all spatial elements. Finally, the liveable neighbourhood will be a synthesis of all those interventions.","Territory; Chinese new town; Control on social interaction; Urban design; Landscape-based strategy","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:ba2caf85-00a9-4f50-a723-cbce0825c30d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ba2caf85-00a9-4f50-a723-cbce0825c30d","From Atomgrad to Atompark: upcycling a nuclear energy landscape","Norkunaite, G.","Van den Burg, L.P.J. (mentor); Vanstiphout, W.A.J. (mentor); Forgaci, C. (mentor)","2016","The nuclear energy landscape is characterized by city large industrial sites, transmission corridors cutting through the forested landscape, a new town with specific type of population (multiethnic highly educated nuclear power plant workers, artists and sportsmen) and the lifestyle, buffer landscape which is part of international nature framework, forested, laky and sparsely inhabited land. This landscape is facing the transition due to the decommissioning of nuclear power plant. Decommissioning involves dismantling power plant at the final stage. But it takes more than that. Decommissioning deletes atomgrads economy, population, identity, cultural and technical achievements, threatens built structures in the city and raises questions about the role of the buffer landscape. Considering the impact of the decommissioning and the potentials in remaining spatial and social structures, the project upcycles energy structures and knowledge, enhances and maintains the rich nature and uncovers the potentials of the nuclear power plant to be seen as industrial heritage. It proposes an alternative decommissioning process that adds to region’s economy and strengthens natural and cultural qualities. The strategy with 6 layers, which derives from exploratory scenarios, is built to upcycle spatial and social structures. It gives the ability for people to control radiation, uses phytotechnologies to clean the sites and prevent from further contamination, biodynamic farms as means to increase biodiversity and for a safe food production in areas with higher levels of radionuclides, it proposes an energy transition from centralized energy generation to regional distributed energy generation subgrid, facilities, diversity of workplaces for the researchers and entrepreneurs, preservation of industrial heritage. Spatial interventions, projects, integrate strategy layers to both improve the layer they belong to and to contribute to transition of the nuclear energy landscape, transition from Atomgrad to Atompark.","atomgrad; new town; transition; nuclear; energy landscape; phytotechnologies; radiation","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2016-07-03","Architecture and The Built Environment","Urbanism","","Design as Politics","",""
"uuid:6ebb5fac-8c7a-45df-8e82-dbd3236c27e2","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6ebb5fac-8c7a-45df-8e82-dbd3236c27e2","Green is the New Black: In search of an alternative vision for eco-city development in China","Yang, W.","Relats Torante, M. (mentor); Kuzniecow Bacchin, T. (mentor); Dabrowski, M.M. (mentor)","2016","The world’s population is set to reach 9.7 billion by 2050 – up from 7.2 billion in 2012 (UN News Center). That global population will be a vastly urban one. The increasing demand for supplying the future urban dwellers and the threatening climate change have posed the question about our current urban development model. Our urbanization has exacerbated the adverse impacts of climate change, which has already exposed the residents of some cities to problems like air and water pollution, flooding and decreasing biodiversity. Major Chinese cities are suffering from these impacts. At this crucial moment, China is facing industrial transformation, political and economic reform, and drastic environmental problems. It is a good time to review the past experience in China’s effort building sustainable cities, which are also known as Eco-Cities. This thesis research focuses on the discussion and reflection on Chinese Eco-cities and also expands to general sustainable discourse. For me, it is an important ‘lesson learning’ moment to understand the dilemma and opportunities in the exploration of a new approach of developing a greener future.","Well-being; Guangming New Town; Green infrastructure; Utopias; Eco-city; Ecosystem services","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:fc98c34d-fda1-4304-b0af-32dc75de976c","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fc98c34d-fda1-4304-b0af-32dc75de976c","Localization of Guangming New Town: Integrating the new town development in Shenzhen metropolitan periphery","Tan, N.","Qu, L. (mentor); Meijers, E.J. (mentor)","2015","The core issue of this project is to discuss the relationship between the new town and old town in the fast-growing metropolitan periphery. The main research question of my project is how Guangming new town and old town could mutually benefit from each other, aiming to formulate a process oriented and strategic planning framework to rebuild a more interactive and dynamic relationship to integrate the regional new town into the local demands and conditions in a mutual-benefit way.","metropolitan peripheral new town; passive urban renewal; social-spatial interaction; complementarity; border area; network thinking; strategic planning","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2015-09-30","Architecture and The Built Environment","Urbanism","","Metropolitan Structure Studio","","22.7119, 113.9386"
"uuid:3464ed9a-a8e7-4eb6-a101-9da3cd77d16d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3464ed9a-a8e7-4eb6-a101-9da3cd77d16d","The Spine: Researching spatial interventions to strengthen the vitality of Zoetermeer as a residential city on the long term","Van Venetie, S.","Colombo, F.F. (mentor); Romein, A. (mentor)","2015","This thesis introduces a strategy which enhances the vitality of Zoetermeer as a residential city on the long term. Special focus is on attracting highly educated starters by making the city center more appreciated by them to live. In this way, it is hoped the city will become more appreciated by all its residents on the long term.","Zoetermeer; Dutch new town; South Wing metropolitan region; urban densification; spatial residential qualities; highly educated starters","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Urbanism","","Complex Cities","","52.061406, 4.498842"
"uuid:ceeccdf7-f3f5-4aaa-834d-a46df29c4810","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ceeccdf7-f3f5-4aaa-834d-a46df29c4810","Flexibility: An alternative development strategy in new urban areas in Hanoi","Van Faassen, W.D.F.","Calabrese, L.M. (mentor); Lei, Q. (mentor)","2014","This thesis discusses the importance and use of flexibility in urban planning and design in South East Asian new urban developments. It stretches the importance of a new balance between the stakeholders in order to create more resilient and sustainable urban extensions. In this way it tries to find answers to the question; in what way can flexibility, understood as the ability for modification and adaptation in plan and process, be incorporated in the contemporary urban planning model and the urban design of new urban areas in Hanoi? The site, Nam An Khanh, in Hanoi serves as a test case for a new, more flexible, framework for development in New Urban Areas in Hanoi. The research explores the applicability of various design and planning tools that foster adaptability and sustainability, that are based on research and experience in the western world.","Vietnam; Hanoi; flexibility; resilient urban design; new town; urban vitality; peri-urban; urban design; urban planning","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Urbanism","","Vertical Cities Asia","","21.002151, 105.712417"
"uuid:0f890657-5cf1-4d0d-88f6-b183ea49425d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0f890657-5cf1-4d0d-88f6-b183ea49425d","Farming Guangming: Integrating agricultural landscape and new town development for the “Green City” Guangming in Shenzhen","Liu, J.","Nadin, V. (mentor); Nijhuis, S. (mentor); Sepulveda, D. (mentor)","2014","Hundreds of new towns are being built or planned today in China, which mostly remove the existing agricultural landscape. The study is motivated by a very simple question: instead of being eaten up by new towns, can agricultural landscape perform more actively in the process of development? I pick Guangming, a new town being built in Shenzhen, to test the idea of integrating agriculture and urban development.The project is divided into two parts: 1) reasoning the integration of agricultural and new town development; 2) investigating the planning and design methods and tools to facilitate the integration. In the project, agriculture is recognized as an existing entity that should be incorporated in urban development and transformed properly, rather than a new design concept introduced into the Green City Guangming. By analyzing the existing agricultural performance and new town development and theoretical studies on urban agriculture and landscape approach to deal with urban-rural relationship, I argue that agricultural landscape can act as a medium to achieve a more integrated landscape management of the city region, convey ecology into spatial forms, moderate impacts of new town development on local farmers, and deliver public goods for local communities in addition to food production. The new potentials of agriculture implies a new planning approach for urban growth on agricultural land, which is referred as Agricultural Landscape Approach in the project. The five principle of the approach are ecological green network, process over time, landscape characteristics, relevant for people and multi-scalar framework. The approach is tested and evaluated by the development of a city-scale design of Guangming and two district-scale designs, Xinqiang and Jiazitang.","agricultural landscape; new town development; landscape approach; urban agriculture; ecosystem service; urban-rural relationship; China; Shenzhen","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2014-06-24","Architecture and The Built Environment","Urbanism","","Complex Cities Studio","","22.7119, 113.9386"
"uuid:240266ee-a4f4-4926-b3dc-005b4c5b68f1","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:240266ee-a4f4-4926-b3dc-005b4c5b68f1","Hello neighbors! Exploring public space’s attractiveness towards improving social connectedness of elderly in Dutch new towns","Wolvers, R.E.","Harteveld, M.G.A.D. (mentor); Rooij, R.M. (mentor)","2014","The changing needs of aging people ask for lasting improvements within the urban environment for them to stay socially and physically active, independent and healthy for as long as possible and for them to live a fulfilling retirement. Hello neighbors! addresses the quality-of-life issues that concern our aging population. It puts forward public space design interventions for attractive public places for - fragile- elderly and visualizes them in the case: Dutch new town Houten.","Aging; elderly; spatial urban design; attractive public space; social activity; new town; Houten","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Urbanism","","Urban Regeneration in the European Context","",""
"uuid:94059e9d-cc5c-40e7-9f21-0b10e2d0989e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:94059e9d-cc5c-40e7-9f21-0b10e2d0989e","Street life: Revitalizing new Asian developments","Reijnen, M.","Calabrese, L. (mentor); Lei, Q. (mentor); Bracken, G. (mentor); Bekkering, H. (mentor)","2014","Street life deals with contemporary issues in Asian new developments. It critiques the new towns and proposes a transformation to increase their livability and reconnect them to the local context - both physical and cultural.","Vietnam; new developments; Asian new town; new town; street life; sense of place; context; transformation; genius loci","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2014-01-29","Architecture and The Built Environment","Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:1dea9e9d-6134-428d-adc9-f320f10e14cf","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1dea9e9d-6134-428d-adc9-f320f10e14cf","New Town Regeneration: Inwards expansion as a tool for the regeneration and growth of Almere","Stobbe, A.","Stouten, P.L.M. (mentor); Hoekstra, M.J. (mentor)","2012","Almere is a city facing a duality of problems; on the one hand, the older districts show increasing signs of degeneration inside the current city while on the other hand the municipality has a huge, but currently very uncertain outwards driven growth ambition to double the city beyond the current borders. During the project analyses have been made to illustrate the duality of problems, followed by the development of a strategy of inwards expansion: projecting the outwards driven growth ambition on the current tissue. To test this hypothetical strategy, a design have been made for a strategic location in the current city: the Weerwater-area.","Almere; inwards expansion; new towns; regeneration","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2012-09-01","Architecture","Urbanism","","Urban Regeneration","",""
"uuid:a9c5a4d7-09c8-4b88-ae70-ca0c19841554","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a9c5a4d7-09c8-4b88-ae70-ca0c19841554","Opening the besieged city: Exploring an inclusive development strategy for Tin Shui Wai in Hong Kong","Feng, J.","Qu, L. (mentor); Harteveld, M. (mentor); Bracken, G. (mentor)","2012","Public housing system of Hong Kong was gradually established to meet the large demand of housing and intervene the property market since 1954. Together with the urban expansion to rural areas, new towns as self-sufficient areas were constructed to settle public housing in New Territory since 1970s. However, some new towns developed into public housing clusters without enough living opportunities because of socio-economic changes and huge economic benefit. Tin Shui Wai is just such a new town of public housing cluster, with a large concentration of low-income groups. It is a Besieged City, out of the network of the mainstream of Hong Kong as a global financial metropolis and deserted at the edge of the metropolitan area. However, from Urbanism views, it still has potentials on different scales. The government is pushing a new development area of HSK next to TSW. There is no doubt that this area will attract investment with new infrastructure connection. However, it is hard to say whether the new development could benefit the low-income groups in TSW. So, this graduation project is to explore an inclusive development strategy that could benefit the low-income groups to open the Besieged City of TSW. The new development strategy, as a supplement to the government’s plan, would follow the development trend of the WNT area, make good use of nature and human resources in local environment, create spatial opportunities for community development, and focus on improving the life quality of low-income groups.","Hong Kong; Public Housing; New Town; Inclusive development strategy; community development","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Urbanism","","Complex Cities studio","",""
"uuid:d763326b-49cf-4b7f-93d4-65af01da6764","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d763326b-49cf-4b7f-93d4-65af01da6764","New town modeling: Reviewing Dutch new towns via quantitative methods to provide appropriate tools and strategy for accelerating Chinese new town development, using songjiang new town as the test case","Ye, Y.","Van Nes, A. (mentor); Berghauser Pont, M. (mentor)","2012","China turned to the Open-Policy in 1978 and began its rapid urbanization process. To handle the urgent demand from working migration and reduce the problems triggered by congestion in mega cities, decentralization and new towns are widely accepted by Chinese urbanists and politicians. However, new towns in China lost their urbanity in the instant city-making while European new towns have experienced a long time reflection. This master thesis intends to advance the knowledge on new town development by applying GIS-related quantitative methods to compare new towns in various contexts with their historically evolved peers. There are two main directions in this research: improving quantitative analytical methods and understanding the transformation process of new towns. This research dwells on quantitative modeling on three elements of urban morphology: street network, building types and function via GIS. By this way, a new quantitative analytical method about built environment can be raised based on the study of van Nes, Berghauser-Pont and Masshoodi (2012). Through applying this new method to compare the development process of Dutch post-war new towns with historical city, a series of spatial principles will be found and applied into Chinese context. Specifically, in the Netherlands, the transformation process in Dutch new towns will be revealed and an urban diagnosis tool will be given. Then, all the knowledge getting from Dutch context will be converted into a Chinese case: Songjiang new town to provide guiding. Although the focus for this thesis will be on one new town, it contributes to the development strategy for other new towns in China as well.","new towns; GIS-related urban modeling; Space Syntax; Spacematrix; MXI","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2012-06-29","Architecture","Urbanism","","Complex City Studio","",""
"uuid:3a803e2a-f76c-4f9e-b1d4-2e0bb747eaa0","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3a803e2a-f76c-4f9e-b1d4-2e0bb747eaa0","City, you are not alone: Reconstructing a new public center system in new town development in Jinan, China","Wang, J.","Read, S. (mentor); Harteveld, M.G.A.D. (mentor)","2011","New city center does not developed as well as it was planned because of an ideal planning model from government planner. In my project, I try to recogonize the real princeples about how the center system grows according to historical center, then apply these principles to reconstruct the new city center in order to revitalise new town.","public center system; new town development; super grids; historical city center; government planning","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","Urbanism","","Spatial planning and","",""
"uuid:36f4c565-4ae8-4119-9299-79da7bec6352","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:36f4c565-4ae8-4119-9299-79da7bec6352","Public space for livable neighbourhoods: How generic spatial interventions can realize conditions for the development of public space to accomplish a dureable living environment in specific urban living areas","Van Lievenoogen, M.J.","De Bois, P.G. (mentor); Van Dorst, M. (mentor)","2011","The report is an investigation into the possibilities of using generic methods to achieve certain levels of quality for public space, to stimulate, regulate but most of all conditionate spatial, social and economical developments. These developments should result in a more livable living environment.","public space; livable; postwar neighbourhoods; interventions; urban acupuncture; durable; New Towns; Zoetermeer; Buytenwegh; toolbox; 3-step method; Spacemate; Street as public space; RGBG","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2011-07-11","Architecture","Urbanism","","Urban acupuncture","",""
"uuid:c7b60cb1-e367-4c32-9747-520958b5b88a","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c7b60cb1-e367-4c32-9747-520958b5b88a","Urban Vitality: Exploring the centrality conditions","Selezneva, E.","De Bois, P. (mentor); Rocco, R. (mentor)","2011","The present research takes on qualitative issues such as urban vitality and quality of urban life from an angle of spatial centrality. The discussion is going around the two main concepts – the concept of urban vitality and the notion of spatial centrality and the footprint it leaves on the functional and structural organizations of cities.","urban centrality; urban vitality; urban center spatial signature; socio-economic dynamics; self-organization; new towns","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2011-07-04","Architecture","Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:1211532e-3529-4ef3-9241-0d52fc68559e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1211532e-3529-4ef3-9241-0d52fc68559e","Grow up Songjiang New Town: Analysis & Strategy to strength economic position of songjiang in regional network and the local self contained system","Hong, L.","Lei, Q. (mentor); Van der Hoeven, F. (mentor); Rocco, R. (mentor)","2010","Analysis & Strategy to strength economic position of Songjiang in Regional network and the lcoal self-contained system","Unbalanced development; Concentrated Decentralisation; Self-contained new town model; fuctional-spatial re-organization system","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Urbanism","","Complex City","",""