Urban Lounge: The Recovery of Social-Spatial Cohesion

Focusing on the renewal, regeneration, and reinvention of spaces in the historic centre of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, this study investigates the impact that public space has on the formation of social unity, based on established practices of behaviour and appropriation. Furthermore, this research was developed within a specific framework for...

A landscape for learning: Anchor points for exploration

DIVER-CITY: Designing for Just Publicness: Inclusive design towards hyper-diversity, Hackney

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...

An Urban Biography: Social-Spatial inequality in The Hague

In the Netherlands there is a current tendency of areas with extreme growth as well as areas with extreme shrinkage. Because of the increasing population in cities like The Hague, social problems intensify. Among these problems is the issue of social-spatial inequality. This occurs when the distribution of life chances is dependent on the place...

Localization of Guangming New Town: Integrating the new town development in Shenzhen metropolitan periphery

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...

Transit-Oriented Development in Lima: A TOD strategy and design for mass transit nodes of Metro Line 1

Since the 1950s the city of Lima, capital of Peru, has drastically grown both in size and inhabitants due to a process of rapid urbanization, by which the city has expanded horizontally in an informal way. Informal settlements have occupied peripheral areas, producing a centre-periphery pattern of urban development. Because the activity centres...

Rebinding the centre: An urban restructure proposal of the Historical City Core of Managua through its cultural, landscape & heritage assets

The process of the phenomena of urbanization within developing countries in Latin America, such as Nicaragua, has increased the appearance of urban informality in the socio-spatial structure. Moreover, the lack of a clear planning framework has led Nicaraguan cities such as Managua, to an urban structure, which is no longer related to its...

A revitalized Kop van Zuid: Bridging the gaps between the development of the Kop van Zuid and its transforming surrounding neighbourhoods through public space

Socioeconomic and Spatial Integration Strategies for Improved Housing and Modes of Production in La Victoria and San Joaquín in Santiago de Chile

The main problematic of the study area -the neighborhood of La Victoria in Santiago de Chile- in spite of its many positive characteristics- is facing social-spatial segregation and fragmentation. Instead of proposing an urban design intervention project for the area a series of alternative strategic planning instruments are proposed that have...