(Not) waiting for Living (Anymore), A Framework to Enhance the Urban Quality of Life during Urban Transformation
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Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2024
Submitted on
2024-05-31
Pages
172
Abstract
While urban transformation aimes to alter cities with multi-dimensional changes toward a better and more sustainable future, the current urban quality of life is often neglected. The thesis aims to develop a framework for enhancing urban quality of life during urban transformation. Following a comprehensive literature review, the thesis establishes a theoretical core that incorporates time and transformation, directing the selection of the primary case of the thesis, Sydhavnen, located in Aarhus, Denmark. The case of the thesis plays a leading role in developing three theoretical lenses of Post-industrial site transformation, Urban quality of life, and Landscape-based transformation, which are implemented to unfold the case. The thesis provides a framework for analyzing the urban quality of life during urban transformation, investigates the role of the landscape in urban transformation, and, by synthesizing the determinations based on the theoretical foundation, the site analysis, and reference case studies, develops a framework of design recommendations and design toolbox for the urban designer, landscape architects, and urban planners, implementing four landscape-based transformation strategies of Reuse, Porosity, Re-naturing, and open-endedness in order to enhance the urban quality of life for post-industrial sites during their transformation with general applicability in relative sites during urban transformation and site-specific applicability for Syhavnen.
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