The Public Carpet - renewal of post conflict transitioning districts: an inclusive urban design approach to public life

Unregulated development is one of the core problems in post conflict areas. Current rebuilding and city planning face tremendous challenges regulating rapid development of the urban environment and reserving and preserving space for the public domain. The latter one has been often disregarded its importance. It has been found that public space...

Diversity in Neukölln: Maintaining or creating accessibility (for a diversity of social groups) in a gentrifying central neighbourhood in the case of Berlin

The project tries to anticipate on the gentrification issues in the case of Neukölln in Berlin. How to stimulate/maintain accessibility for a diversity of social groups in a central gentrifying area [in the case of Neukölln, Berlin] ? This is the main research question of the thesis. This resulted in a project that consists of a strategy for...

Nijmegen Centraal! A new concept for the Dutch railway station environment of Nijmegen

This thesis aims at developing a new concept for the railway station and its environment in Nijmegen. The focus is on the public domain in and around the railway station located at the urban fringe of the historic centre of a medium sized Dutch city. The case for this graduation project is Nijmegen. It is the aim to improve the accessibility,...