Historical Analysis of Seoul Station: Historical analysis of Seoul Station building and surrounding space and presentation of future development direction.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the historical development of Seoul Station's space and contemplate the current state.<br/>The history of Seoul Station began in 1900 and has since interacted continuously with the city. Through the Japanese colonial period, the Korean War, and periods of rapid growth, it has undergone dynamic changes. As...

Environmental Urban Morphology: A Multidisciplinary Methodology for the Analysis of Public Spaces in Dense Urban Fabrics

A city is an organism made of social, economic, cultural, and environmental fabrics, the interactions of which determine the form and functioning of city life. Different disciplines are then involved in analyzing the complex processes of the 21st-century city. The aim of this study was to explore the use of an analytical method that can act as a...

Sustainable densification in Utrecht: Testing the Open Space strategy in Rivierenwijk

In my graduation project I have researched the relation between built space and open space in the urban context. With the current densification challenge in Utrecht much more built volume is added to the city, increasing the pressure on open space. Open space is of great importance in securing urban liveability and has in particular many...

Productive Addis: Increasing accessibility to local income generation by designing a productive open space system

This master thesis discusses to what extend a productive open space system can increase the accessibility to local income generation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The rapid urbanising capitol of a mainly rural country cannot keep up with providing employment, housing and transportation for its current and future residents. The result is high travel...

Promises and lures of open creative space for innovative teams

Like activity-based workspaces, innovative spaces are deemed to be efficient and flexible, but they are most often called upon to support collaborative and creative team work instead of individual whom sometime will work in a team. Our research objective is to further explore the links between the project team and its space to identify...

Wesfort School of Hospitality

The research explains the situation of the bad living conditions to which city planners, politicians and tycoons reacted. Both the healing environment (Wesfort) and the healthy environment (Company Towns and Garden Cities) have in common that the intention is to enhance the quality of life in order to increase productivity and community feeling....

Towards sustainable territories-in-between: a multidimensional typology of open spaces in Europe

To improve the ecosystem service provided by open spaces in dispersed urban areas is a key challenge for sustainable spatial development in Europe. The typology presented in this article illustrates the different potentials that open spaces in territories-in-between have across 10 cases in Europe. Unlike other typologies, neither function nor...

Reclaiming open space in New Belgrade: A case study of designing for local demands via means of landscape architecture.

Open space are not defined their users as the residents in New Belgrade in socialist and market-driven urbanism. So there’s a disconnection between people’s real demands and the space. The portion of landscape architecture will be focused on public interests to make a livable urban environment. An urban landscape framework will be established to...

In between anonymity and accountability – 'when extremes meet' - Tussen anonimiteit en kenbaarheid; hoe extremen samenkomen

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Densified Open Space

Cities are densifying instead of spreading out more. The Zuidas in Amsterdam is an example of this as 100m towers rise around the train station. The public space in these area's and specifically in the Zuidas is left over space which is not often used. Add to it that the main functions in the new high density area are offices resulting in a non...

Various open spaces withing the living environment

Understanding the planning of open-spaces in territories-in-between: Dupuy's network urbanism approach applied to areas in-between urban and rural

‘‘Networked regions and cities in times of fragmentation: Developing smart, sustainable and inclusive places"

Taxing land for urban containment: Reflections on a Dutch debate

Excessive land use regulations aimed at containing urban sprawl have been criticised, because they may overcompensate for the external effects of uncontrolled greenfield development and contribute to stagnation in house building. Taxes on building in green spaces may be an instrument for balancing urban growth and the protection of the landscape...