Place-making with the Makers: Exploring directions of place-making strategies in the redevelopment of industrial urban areas into mixed-use areas. Case of Schieoevers Noord, Delft

The lack of effective place-making strategies to transform industrial urban areas into mixed-use areas, and the limited knowledge of how manufacturers interact with other actors, have exposed the vulnerability to future challenges of these redevelopment processes. Therefore, this research aims to identify directions of place-making strategies to...

Re-defining the appreciation and usability of urban watersides in the urban center and peri-urban fringes of Shanghai

Countless waterways defined both the rural and urban landscape and related daily life activities in China’s Yangtze River Delta for many centuries. However, much of these bodies of water disappeared due to extremely rapid urbanization in the last three decades and this process is ongoing. This paper critically assesses how the appreciation and...

Creating Place in a Placeless Space

Place, being a product of personal perceptions, makes the establishment of such an inevitably subjective endeavor. The unavoidable Canadian perspective that I bring to each experience of the Dutch landscape has led to a project initiative aimed at revealing the uniqueness of currently ‘placeless’ spaces that reside within the fringe area of many...