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Fontana, Luca (author)Haven is a public condenser with the ambition to change a social condition through architectural form and its contingency. Within a vision of networked public spaces to contrast urban-induced segregation in Copenhagen, the project aims to encourage social interactions by including broadly diverse recreational activities. It performs as a ...master thesis 2021
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Sun, Aijing (author)The development of a city is always accompanied by the debate of justice. London, a world city, changing towards a hyper-diversity scenario, is even criticized by different groups about their right to live in the city. The injustice show on both social and spatial dimension here and the inequality and injustice in London usually illustrated as...master thesis 2020
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Scholten, Mark (author)Under the influence of globalisation and neoliberal planning paradigms, socio-spatial segregation in Stockholm, Sweden has significantly risen. Its society has become more heterogeneous, with migrants often ending up in socially vulnerable suburbs in the periphery of metropolitan areas where a spiral of social exclusion and decline is...master thesis 2020
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Fuchshuber, Anneliese (author)The process of globalization of the economy created the idea of a global urban hierarchy. Within this context, the Olympic Games and its legacy started to be seen as a tool for cities to attract large scale investment and be projected in this global economic perspective. In the case of the 2016 Olympic Games held in Rio de Janeiro, massive...master thesis 2020
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Zhao, Xinyan (author)The discontinuities of urban development and city expansion reveal Haizhu a fragmented and diverse area that results in disparity and isolation in different communities and social groups, and decreasing green and blue spaces. The objective of this thesis is to create an integrated and comprehensive socio-ecological network in terms of corridor...master thesis 2020
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Rocha, Jennifer (author)With the growing mounds of mixed waste in India and and insufficient solid waste management system, the government and NGO's have turned to people to segregate their waste at home. But, even after a lot of efforts to encourage people to segregate, people have not changed their behaviour and still dispose all their waste into one bin. This...master thesis 2020
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Moya Ortiz, Diego (author)Metropolization process in Santiago de Chile has been strongly influenced by neoliberal rationale in the field of urban planning. A diffuse interaction between the forces of the urban land market, national-global trends of capital agglomeration and fragmented governance have led to a highly segregated socio-spatial structure. These processes...master thesis 2019
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Hu, Qiyao (author)In the past four decades, China’s reform and opening up has made the country increasingly connected to the process of globalization. And as globalization continues to evolve, more and more people and other elements are beginning to participate in this process. Therefore, a large number of foreigners, especially some individuals and small...master thesis 2019
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Muñoz Unceta, Pablo (author)Like many other Latin American cities, Lima experienced explosive population growth during the last century. Its population went from 600 thousand people in 1940 to nearly 9.5 million people nowadays. Former agriculture fields between the coast and the beginning of the Andes mountains were quickly filled with urban developments. Neither the...master thesis 2019
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Monsalve Cazorla, Francisco (author)Guayaquil is the 2nd Largest city of Ecuador, located in one of the largest estuary ecosystems of the pacific coast in South-America (Delgado, 2011). Since 1960’s the city has gone through a rapid process of urbanization and informal settlements. This has caused severe spatial segregation and a development model that ignores the existing...master thesis 2019
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van der Valk, Erik (author)The research in this master graduation focuses on Nowa Huta, a neighborhood located in the Krakow Metropolitan Area (Poland). Nowa Huta was designed and build as a socialist ideal city in the socialist era, complete with its own steel plant where the majority of the inhabitants worked. The Lenin steel factory provided work, but it also financed...master thesis 2019
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Jiang, Xuehan (author)Information systems, such as information retrieval machines and recommendation systems, utilize various user information and history behaviors to provide personalized content to users. However, a debate on whether the personalization in information systems can trigger the online echo chamber effect has emerged. The online echo chamber effect...master thesis 2018
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Liu, Xiaoyezi (author)The Pd-based metal membranes have been focused on many studies, because they are the most promising candidates for hydrogen separation. If Pd-based membranes are designed in nanoscale, then the introduced high volume fraction of grain boundaries can act as fast diffusion paths for hydrogen atoms that leading to an increase of hydrogen separation...master thesis 2018
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Ferraro, Maricruz Gazel (author)Gated communities exist in most urbanized contexts around the world and San José, Costa Rica is not the exception. Following the discourse of insecurity and the claim of building community with-in the confinement of the gates, new developments are constructed with a peripheral wall. As gated communities diversify to all available markets they...master thesis 2018
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Blom, Joke (author)A traceability system for primary packaging materials is compulsory by law for the food- and beverage industry. With a good traceability system an organisation is able to quickly recall unsafe products to protect consumers health. This research aims to analyse and improve the traceability of the primary packaging materials at Heineken...master thesis 2018
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Atreya, Vibhor (author)The role of carbon in the strengthening mechanisms of martensitic steels has been studied for decades. However, uncertainties still exist regarding how the distribution of carbon to various locations inside martensite contributes to the development of its observed microstructure and high strength. The strengthening mechanisms depend on carbon...master thesis 2017
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Hertfelder Chisvert, Alejandra (author)The popularity of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) is growing at an increasing rate as an alternative to manned aviation for different purposes and applications. So far, most of their operations have been of military character, but the demand for civil and commercial applications is growing exponentially. RPAS have been allowed to...master thesis 2017
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Hanssen, J.L.J. (author)To date there is limited knowledge about the flow behaviour of non-Newtonian slurry and tailings flows. In hydraulic engineering and the mining industry numerous questions and uncertainties still exist. Different numerical and analytical models have been developed attempting to meet this demand. For the larger part they describe the rheological...master thesis 2016
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De Geus, L.I. (author)One of the places where the phenomenon of socio-spatial segregation is most evident and tangible is the city of São Paulo in Brazil, which is also known as “the city of walls.” I developed an architectural concept based on philosopher Elias Canetti’s concept of Verwandlung that relates the social and mental levels of segregation with the spatial...master thesis 2016
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Van Dijk, N.N. (author)In this research we studied the behaviour of dredged glacial till in the creation of a landfill. An experimental approach is used where we primarily focussed on the settling and consolidation characteristics. Till is in general a well graded, non sorted material and segregation during dredging and transportation can be expected. The aims of this...master thesis 2016