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A. Romein

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The Master Thesis at TU Delft titled "The Marketplace of Ideas: Sharing and Discovery" proposes a vertical campus design developed within the Public Building Graduation Studio. This design introduces a university campus that is integrated into the cityscape of The Hague, suggesti ...

Life in the Shadow of the Atlantikwall

Designing a Reconciliation Landscape for the Places in Between in The Hague

Although not widely known, The Hague emerged as one of the most impaired cities in the Netherlands after World War II (Mellink, Saal & Van Schuppen, 2017). Bombings on Statenkwartier and Bezuidenhout left part of the city in ashes (Van Der Boom, 1995; Verbaan, 2011), but also ...

Preservation through Adaptation

Revitalising St Barbara church with a focus on preservation and choice of materials

The upcoming circular economy has consequences for the application of materials within the building sector, which requires a different mindset and way of designing from the architect. The aim of this research is to develop a Circularity Overview in which the materials of a buildi ...
This thesis explores the use of the palimpsest as a theoretical framework for adapting a heritage building. The research studies the former Maranatherkerk in Castricum, Noord-Holland. Set against a backdrop of ever-increasing secularisation in the Netherlands, the former Maranath ...

An alternative smart paradigm

Towards integrating informality in the smart city model in an Indian context

Smart City forms the new urban imaginary of the recent era. It primarily emerged from the West and has a wide set of definitions that revolves around the use of technology for urban development. With the concept’s growing popularity in the Global South, countries such as India ha ...

The New Neighbors

Urban revitalization in the Rosmolenwijk

This thesis report, the new neighbors: urban revitalization in the Rosmolenwijk, presents the socio-spatial effects that urban revitalization plans combined with the housing crisis (and other trends and policies) have on working-class neighborhoods. The working-class neighborhood ...

Climate Adaptive Delta Cities

A strategy for the transition towards climate adaptive redevelopment of post-industrial port sites in the Rhine-Meuse delta in the Netherlands - The case of De Staart in Dordrecht

The climate crisis will require far-stretching changes to our urban systems, also called a transition. However, the direction in which our society will transition is still deeply uncertain. To become less vulnerable, cities and urban areas need to increase their adaptive capacity ...

Affordable housing in an urban commons

The Community Land Trust as an alternative model for housing development in Rotterdam

Trends of neoliberalisation and globalisation have led to the financialisation of housing on a global scale. This has led to the increasing deployment of state-led gentrification as a strategy for urban development, as cities aim to strengthen their position as nodes in the globa ...

Livable old community

Participative approach as a tool to promote community redevelopment

Chengdu is experiencing rapid development, and the urban area is sprawling to the south and east, leaving many old communities in the north. Most old communities were built before the 1980s with the aging built environment. Spatial structure cannot meet the increasing need of peo ...

#Amsterdam after 6 pm

Planning for a diverse and balanced night-time economy

With the development of the social economy, the traditional urban work and rest pattern of working during the day and resting at night has gradually changed. The night-time economy has become a new engine for urban regeneration, economic growth and cultural creation.The growth of ...

The Revival of the Social Housing Community

Providing security and shelter for the urban poor

Adequate housing has long been considered a basic human right. Trends of globalisation, financialisation and urbanisation are oppressing this right. Social housing is neglected by authorities and stigmatised by society. Local, low-income residents are dispossessed and displaced, ...

Growing Society

The application of agroecology in public space design to tackle environmental and social issues

In this thesis report, research and landscape architecture design are integrated to formulate guiding principles to combat environmental and social issues in urban areas through the case-study of Lombardijen, a neighbourhood in the south of Rotterdam.
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Places For Us

Exploring urban design principles for the locals of Willemstad

This project takes a critical look at the relationship between Willemstad’s quality
of place and the socio-economic, socio-cultural and environmental well-being of its
local population. As a reaction, a set of Urban Design Principles for US (the locals)
are proposed.

Break the tourist bubbles!

Spatial stratregies to acheive liveable local places and explorable tourist destinations in developing Chinese cities, Hangzhou as a case

The activity of the urban tourists can confine to distinct urban tourist zones, the tourist bubbles. It causes segregation between city life and the tourist area. The thesis digs into this phenomenon with Hangzhou as the case city. The goal of the project is to reintroduce the lo ...

From Segregation to Integration

Planning and Designing for the Enhancement of Socio-spatial and Ecological Integration in Haizhu District, China

The discontinuities of urban development and city expansion reveal Haizhu a fragmented and diverse area that results in disparity and isolation in different communities and social groups, and decreasing green and blue spaces. The objective of this thesis is to create an integra ...
With the development of knowledge economy, innovation ecosystems emerged and science parks as localized innovation ecosystems have been adopted as strategies of business support and technology transfer largely around the world. The establishment of science parks aims to create kn ...

Drowning Deltas

A strategical spatial approach to soil subsidence in delta regions

Delta cities all around the world are under pressure from different forms of climate change effects. Soil subsidence as a result of peat oxidation, and anthropogenic loading of the soil. The soil in many of the heavily urbanised deltas around the world is subsiding faster than the ...
The tourism of Amsterdam has undergone rapid growth. However it has also brought negative impacts. The space and environmental resources are under the massive pressure of tourism. First, In the situation of overtourism, Amsterdam needs to regulate development of tourism; Second, ...

Urban Design for Physical Activity

An exploration of the use of quantitative statistics to determine the role of urban design of public space in Westland, the Netherlands, in encouraging adolescents to be more physically active

In the entire European Region over 80% of the adolescents are not active enough (WHO, 2019b). Physical activity can be seen as an essential component of human health as it can contribute to reducing the risk at several diseases, such as diabetes, depression, ...

The decline of public space in the digital age?

A search for a new synergy between the use of digital devices in and traditional use of urban public space

The world we live in is more and more a digital world and the number of people having access to digital communication technologies is growing rapidly. This integration of digital technologies into everyday life is what is called the digitalization process (IGI Global dictionary, ...