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The Potential of Small, Low-Carbon, Zero-Energy Housing

A Multidimensional Approach

2024 || Paperback || Cynthia Souaid || TU Delft

This thesis examines the potential of small, low-carbon, (near) zero-energy dwellings as a solution that would both address sustainability challenges and answer to the growing housing shortage in North-West Europe. It adopts a multidimensional outlook that encompasses institutional, social and technical aspects surrounding the dwellings. The institutional aspect is addressed through an investigation of financial, legislative, technical and cultural barriers to the implementation and uptake of...

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Making temporary homes

Why meanings and activities matter

2024 || Paperback || Marjolein Overtoom || TU Delft

A housing shortage has been building up in the Netherlands in the last 30 years. Decreasing the housing shortage takes time, while people need a place to live now. Temporarily transforming vacant buildings into housing could reduce this need by providing the housing market with time to catch up. Can different user perspectives be included in housing design so all residents can easily make their home? A review of literature from housing studies, indoor environmental quality, architectural desi...

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Towards Energy-­Efficient Residential Buildings In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Exploring Energy Retrofitting Options And Assessing Their Feasibility

2024 || Paperback || Ahmed Felimban || TU Delft

The thesis explores energy retrofitting options for enhancing the energy efficiency of residential buildings in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It identifies and validates cost-effective energy retrofit schemes that have the potential for energy savings. The thesis also assesses the feasibility of energy retrofitting scenarios for building envelopes and their impact on reducing energy consumption, improving thermal comfort, and mitigating the environmental impact of buildings. The results of this resea...

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Research on Urban Heritage Values based on the UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) Approach

The case study of Suzhou

2024 || Paperback || Huang Huang || TU Delft

As far as a historic city is concerned, a city is a dynamic complex which consists of many different interrelated and interactive elements. It is unreasonable to assess urban heritage by using a single value category. The evaluation of urban heritage values needs to develop a theoretical framework to represent the relationships between different elements. In view of the above issues, there is so far still a lack of systematic study on urban heritage values in Chinese academic circles. Therefo...

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Developing places for human capabilities

Understanding how social -­sustainability goals are governed into urban development projects

2024 || Paperback || Céline Janssen || TU Delft

This dissertation develops an understanding towards governing social sustainability goals into area-based urban development projects. It draws on Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach to construct a capability-centered evaluation of how institutionalized governance processes around these projects ultimately affect people’s freedoms to do the things they value in their urban living environment. Presenting case studies from the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria, the approach adopted in this disse...

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Adaptive Reuse of Urban Heritage in Contested Urban Context

The Case of Acre in Israel

2024 || Paperback || Ana Jayone Yarza Pérez || TU Delft

The world is facing global challenges that are dramatically changing the social and physical environments, resulting in cultural confrontation. Rapid urban growth, and gentrification increase urban pressure while jeopardizing social cohesion, multicultural values and local economies. Moreover, environmental factors associated with climate change challenge the way cities respond and adapt, as their assets have to be re-designed to meet the current and future generation needs.

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Landscapes of Trade

Towards sustainable spatial planning for the logistics complex in the Netherlands

2024 || Paperback || Merten Nefs || TU Delft

By combining different perspectives and methods of empirical research, this PhD thesis generates multi-disciplinary insights into the rise of the logistics complex and its planning discourse whilst focusing specifically on XXL distribution centres (DCs) in the Netherlands. Since the 1980s, the building footprint of this complex has increased fourfold, to approximately 80 million square metres, generating a new large-scale landscape type: Landscapes of Trade. The research addresses urgent i...

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Daily Mobility in Metropolitan Areas

The case of higher education students and urban spatial ­development in the Valparaiso Metropolitan Area

2024 || Paperback || Marcela Soto || TU Delft

This study seeks to understand the interrelationship between daily mobility and the spatial structure of an emerging metropolitan urban system. It is concerned with the daily mobility of a specific group of inhabitants, higher education students, living in a contemporary metropolis and experiencing urban living. The study’s main aim is to better understand aspects of this complex urban spatial structure through the students’ lives and through their daily mobility to explore specific urban...