Oil Spaces: Extended Urbanization from Sea to Land

Flows of petroleum have shaped buildings, cities and landscape around the world on sea and land. This paper shows how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment over the last century and a half, in ways that are often not visible or recognized. Understanding the multiple...

Addressing the Audience: Jaap Bakema and City Exhibitions

This paper examines the case of Jaap Bakema (1914-81) as a precursor to participation and co-creation processes in city planning. Besides his architectural practice and prolific teaching, Dutch architect and Team 10 figurehead Bakema was deeply engaged in creating exhibitions to communicate his ideas to layman audiences. He played a role in de...

Communal Space and Degree of Sharing: The Legacy and Inspiration of Juer Hutong Neighborhood Project

Comparative case studies of housing and welfare outcomes by using the capability approach

This presentation summarises the research proposal for developing a model for applying the capability approach to housing studies, and testing the model through a case study in Manila. The conceptual framework of this research lies in a comparative analysis of key theoretical approaches to well-being in the field of welfarism, planning and...

The explanatory power of Space Syntax and Urban Morphology

Morphological analysis of settlements in the Arctic: a comparative analysis of four settlements with diverging ideologies on Svalbard

Microclimatic performance of urban form: an analytic method in energy-sensitive urban design

Planning codes and the emergence of urban form

A Convolutional Neural Network-Based Model for Predicting The Perceived Attractiveness of Urban Places

An understanding of how people perceive attractive or unattractive places in cities is vitally important to urban planning and policy making. Given the subjective nature of human perception and the ambiguous character of attractiveness as an attribute of urban places, it is challenging to quantify and reliably assess the extent to which a place...

Limits to the regulation of establishment of real estate through urban plans: the hotel sector and retail as examples

In many countries, local governments feel the need to regulate the supply of a certain segment of the real estate sector in a defined geographical area. Usually, their main objective is to prevent the oversupply of for instance hotels or retail in a specific area. As a consequence, the existing suppliers receive (economic) protection, in the...

Privatisation and institutionalisation of organisational learning in urban development pilots

The initiation of ‘pilots’ in urban development is often a result of changing contextual circumstances like economic market conditions or new planning legislation requiring other solutions. Pilots require actors to innovate in terms of designing plans, handling planning procedures, managing development processes, and constructing real estate....

Changing realities: Traumatic urbanism as a mode of resilience in intra-war Beirut

In 1975, and in an ambiance of increasing tension, the streets of Beirut served as a stage for a series of violent events and in a matter of days, the sounds of mortar shells and machine guns provided an applied interpretation of the conflicting interests of the different Lebanese and global political players. With few intermissions and a...

Dutch Estates Landscapes: Method for describing the spatial essence