London 2041

Challenging a region's mono-centric development paradigm

Master thesis (2019)

Authors

D. Leenders Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

D. Stead Spatial Planning and Strategy - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
F.D. van der Hoeven 100% Research - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 2)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2019 Daan Leenders
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Published Date

24-01-2019

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

This thesis proposes the development of a new centrality outside of Central London in order to combat the increasingly evident problems generated by London’s mono-centric model of development. In doing so, special attention is paid to understanding the region of Greater London as a networked urban system. Following a diagnosis of the current condition and the processes that have led to its existence, this thesis generates, optimizes and evaluates several options for a new centrality and the transit links needed to support them. In this process, a network analysis carried out in Python forms a central element to concretely understand the complexity of London’s system of station areas. Subsequently Woolwich, the most fitting of the options reviewed, is further elaborated through a development strategy comprising the local, regional and governance actions needed to create the conditions for, and providing guidance of, its development into a new centrality.