Certified Future: A Strategy For Sustainable & Resilient Agriculture In Tuscany

The current Tuscan agri-food system is unsustainable. The so-called conventional farming practices are still the most commonly used on both global and local scale. These practices include activities such as intensive farming and the use of chemical phytosanitary products that cause the progressive deployment and contamination of local natural...

"Xiangcun", As A Landscape Productivity: Sustainable Countryside for Urban-rural Integration in the Greater Bay Area

The countryside is standing at the cross of its destiny due to rapid urbanization. Influenced by the historical dual urban-rural relationship, the countryside in China was regarded as the sacrifice of regional modernization. Since the reform and opening up, a miraculous expansion of cities could be seen within the Great Bay Area (GBA). However,...

Transformation and revival: Research on urban development strategic planning for HanDan under the dual dilemma of resourcebased industry transition and regional spatial marginalization

Secondary post-industrial cities in China are facing two problems. In order to promote the sustainable transformation of cities, the Chinese central government promoted “new industrialization” in 2002. This concept aims to eliminate heavy industry enterprises to create a better urban environment. Due to the imbalance in the industrial structure...

The [en]gendered City: Towards an evolutionary process of gender-equal urban planning and design

Despite the increasing demand for women’s participation in the growing economy, the persisting gender inequality in current societies has a significant spatial factor contributing to inhibiting women from accessing various facilities and economic opportunities, further undermining them from enhancing their social mobility and decreasing gender...

Heritage of the ordinary: an alternative view: Strategies for using cultural heritage sites as a driver of sustainable urban [re]development in Piraeus

This thesis explored urban strategies for harnessing diverse types of cultural heritage of the ordinary urban environment in order to achieve sustainable urban development. During the past century, urban expansions took place without any special regard towards existing cultural heritage expressions. Despite the significant role of heritage in...

Shaping Indian Cities: Planning and design with smart city technologies

With the emergence of the latest concept of smart cities, there is a rapid change of lifestyle and a mass migration to cities. At the same time, cities have high demands of infrastructure such as transport and building, and resources such as food, water, and energy, as well as issues like scarcity of adequate land, unapproachable government. All...

Foodbanism: Strategy of healthy green future for Rotterdam Zuid

The project seeks a strategic planning of integrating urban agriculture into part of the green infrastructure for Rotterdam Zuid, which hopes to open up the possibilities of urban agriculture to inspire people like planners, decision makers and residents. The proposal based on the collaborative communication combining the supportive policy,...

Moving through transitions: A strategic urban design framework including the spatial conditions for a competitive environment

This thesis proposes a strategic framework in order to improve the spatial competitive position of the metropolitan area of Zagreb. A country that recently joined the European Union and had to adapt its planning system. The country and its regions, however, remain highly uncompetitive within the European Union. A research is conducted to find...

A Dynamic Roadmap for City Logistics: Designing a dynamic roadmap towards 2025 for the Netherlands

The local governments in the Netherlands experience a problem. The distribution of freight in the cities is an important driver of the economy, but it has negative impacts on the liveability of their cities, which affects the attractiveness of a municipality. However, changing the city logistics is not straightforward. Shippers, carriers, city...

RE_VALUE and LINKAGE of REGENERATING URBAN VOIDS: Design and Planning strategies to counteract local socio-spatial fragmentation, in the Iquique urban system

At the Chilean city of Iquique, the decline of the significance of public space is attributed to the reduced availability and functions attached to it,at the same time to the ongoing desire to control the own space (market oriented development).This project aims to deal with the fragmented city, as a result of the influence performed by the...

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...

Investigating the further development of a Decision Support Suite for use in Airport Planning

The aim of this thesis project was to investigate the further development of an airport Decision Support Suite (DSS) - the Airport Business Suite (ABS). A financial model was developed and implemented by incorporating new approaches and methodologies to Airport Strategic Planning, with various financial guidelines and practices suggested by...

Towards a Strategic Integration of the Weakest Social Groups: A Review of The Hague's Structural Visions within a Strategic, Integrated, Regeneration Plan

Curonian Spit - a place to live!

Curonian Spit is a peninsula on the seaside which is shared together with Lithuania and Russia (Kaliningrad). Since it is only accessible by water transport on Lithuanian side, it becomes hardly reachable island for Lithuanians. Due to its unique cultural landscape place also has UNESCO status under criteria V. After independence major...

Light plan - space for people: A public space strategy towards a 24 hour vitality and socio-spatial integrated inner city for Brussels

This graduation project is a practical research on the way light can be used within the urban context to create vital environments during 24 hours of the day. The connection of the lighting design with the urban design is explored with the goal of integration and regeneration of a disconnected area in the inner city of Brussels.

Beyond the World Fair

World Expos are ‘world known’ events, with its core business to meet, learn and innovate. The national pavilions specially build for these events are outstanding architectural structures to show off the visitors and the rest of the world. What many people do not know is that the post-use of these structures and the surrounding area are in many...

Tehran has a Coast: 35N51E2050

Tehran as a New Town can be described as those human settlements that were founded at a certain moment in history by an explicit act of will, according to a preceding plan and aiming to survive as a self-sustaining local community and independent local government. It indicates the role of the City as, New Town, as an iconoclastic form of...

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...