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B. Cattoor

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Engagement by Design

How four residential gardens in the Randstad (NL) stimulate healthy interactions between individuals, community, and place.

This book is about the first ten years of the master track in Landscape Architecture at the Department of Urbanism in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft. It delves into the personal, educational, didactical, organizational and, above all, substantiv ...

Culture and Context in Public Space Design

Symbolic ornamentation, local craftsmanship and public participation as a way to enable meaning and affordance

Rapid urbanization and increasing globalization of urban development strategies are resulting in a lack of connection between people and places, and places and their context. Nevertheless, cultural embedding and sense of place have a direct impact on the quality of public space. ...

Designing with Hybridity, Scalar Paradoxes, and Complex Dynamics

How Two Domestic Gardens Challenge the Contemporary Landscape Imagination

Belonging to the small-scale and private sphere, gardens are usually omitted from urban and regional landscape plans. Yet, we argue that the assemblage of everyday gardens – the garden complex – is an inherent component of the landscape metropolis that holds the potential to beco ...
Innovation in mapping methods for historical landscape research is flourishing, largely because this type of research is situated at the very fertile intersection of ongoing technological development and sustained critical reflection. On the one hand, the development of digital t ...

Mapping and Design as Interrelated Processes

Constructing Space-Time Narratives

17 Motorway Landscapes proposes a relational and processual re-mapping of the E17 as it crosses the south of West Flanders in Belgium. Motorways are usually conceived, perceived and most often mapped as alien elements superimposed on the territory. To be able – at least partially ...

Mare Nostrum 2.0

Map in exhibition 'Aqua Arbor'

Re-cartography is a designerly mapping practice that aims to challenge dominant spatial epistemologies while expanding the scope of our spatial imagination. Particularly relevant to contemporary complex spatial problematics, and emerging within the context of urbanism, re-cartogr ...