Graduation projects supervised at TU Delft
Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology — Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy.
Most student work is available at the TU Delft Education Repository.
Along my career, I have supervised a good number of graduation projects, as first, second or third mentor on a variety of topics, mostly connected to spatial strategies for the global metropolis, governance and citizen engagement, which includes lots of work on understanding and designing for complex city-regions in Europe and in the Global South.
The focus changes as my research interests evolve. In the last 10 years, my attention has shifted towards issues of spatial justice, especially the connection between urbanisation and citizen’s rights. This includes for example, the governance of slums and the governance of slum upgrading, citizen participation and citizen engagement, the governance of the urban commons, the city as a commons, and planning as a democracy building exercise.
My role in the drafting of the Union for the Mediterranean Action Plan for Sustainable Urbanisation (published by UfM and the European Commission in 2021), has opened up new areas of research and action and consequently, new opportunities for graduation mentorship.
2026
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- (2026) Sardinia Otherwise: Critical mapping and explorations on feminist and decolonial planning and design (Sardigna Asinuncas), by Adriano Mancini (Italy). Graduation Studio: Design with Feminist Values. My role: First mentor. Second mentor: Caroline Newton.
- (2025) Stream of Contention: Pathways to Spatial Justice in Subak’s Hydrosocial Territories, by Julia Sumarthinningrum Dahlan (Indonesia). Keywords: Spatial Justice, Subak System, Indigenous Knowledge, Pluriverse. My role: First mentor. Second mentor: Raquel Hädrich Silva.
- (2024) emPOWERed: Transitioning towards just energy futures in vulnerable neighborhoods in Rotterdam South, by Sophie van Hal (The Netherlands). Keywords: Participation, energy transition, citizen engagement, governance of sustainability transitions. Second mentor: Geertje Slingerland.
- (2024) Reclaiming the Water City: Urban Regeneration Strategies Based on Water City Identity of Jiaxing, by Yiwen Ji (China). Keywords: Urban Identity, Heritage, Jiaxing, Water City. Second mentor: Luca Iuorio.
- (2023) Permeating Socio-Ecological Walls: Addressing the multi-dimensional inequality in the ‘City of Walls’ through Environmental Justice [São Paulo], by Larissa Müller (US). Keywords: Environmental Justice, multi-dimensional inequality, City of Walls. Second mentor: Claudiu Forgaci.
- (2023) Reconfiguring Travel Patterns: The Necessary Rapid Just Transition to Car-Free Urban Planning in a Cross-Border Context [border NL-BE], by Thomas van Daalhuizen (NL). Keywords: Mobility planning, Sustainable mobility, Social sustainability, Transportation Networks, Cross-Border Context. Second mentor: Vitor Muñoz.
- (2023) Inequality and Life Fulfilment: A social, cultural and spatial exploration of the Greater Gaborone Region [Botswana], by Dan Watchorn (Canada). Keywords: Life fulfilment, spatial inequality, economic inequality, capabilities approach, cultural philosophy. Second mentor: Maurice Harteveld.
- (2022) Calming Regional Aridity: How a regional strategy can mitigate water shortage and support just and resilient Urbanism [North Africa], by Hidde van Beek (The Netherlands). Keywords: arid climate; water shortage; transboundary cooperation; regional strategy; resilience; spatial justice.
- (2022) The New Informal: leveraging formal and informal practices towards the just, resilient and sustainable urban development of Kampala, by Priscilla Namwanje (Uganda). Keywords: formal and informal practices, informal institutions, pattern language, community participation.
- (2021) Transformation and revival: Research on urban development strategic planning for HanDan under the dual dilemma of resource based industry transition and regional spatial marginalisation, by Yizhao Du (China). Keywords: secondary cities, resource-based industrial cities, transformation, innovative urbanism, Strategic Planning.
- (2021) Polarised Vienna: Democracy and Public Space in the Urban Periphery, by Simon Bohun (Austria). Keywords: Urban periphery, Donaustadt, Vienna, Democracy and public space, Centrality.
- (2020) Bridging Nicosia: Finding common ground for building peace in the contested city. Author: Ioanna Dimitriou (Cyprus). Keywords: Ethnic conflict, contested environment, divided cities, Nicosia, shared spaces.
- (2020) (Re)Levant: Former railway networks in the Levant as a backbone for regional cooperation and social inclusion [Israel], by Rotem Shenitzer Schwake (Israel). Keywords: Railway infrastructure, cross-border cooperation, sustainable development, regional segregation, divided communities.
- (2018) Productive Addis: Increasing accessibility to local income generation by designing a productive open space system, by Chris Bartman (The Netherlands). Keywords: Affordable neighbourhoods, migration, social mobility, urban growth, economic development, Inclusive cities in the Global South.
- (2018) An alternative urban paradigm? Local knowledge and the power of community as a base for sustainable development in Mathare Valley, Nairobi, by Eva Labrujere (The Netherlands). Keywords: Participatory slum-upgrading, informal urbanisation, sustainable development, indigenous/local knowledge.
- (2018) A Corridor towards sustainable urban development: Maputo Metropolitan Area, Mozambique, by Concepción del Rocío Aranda Iglesias (Spain). Keywords: Adaptive Governance, Informality, Urban Development, Metropolitan Strategy.
- (2017) Stockholm 2050: A resilient metropolitan region, by Kristian Spasov (Sweden). Keywords: Regional Planning, Mobility, Strategic Regional Planning, resilience, climate change.
- (2017) An Informal Frame: Incorporating social and economic production of space in redevelopment of informal settlements, by Kritika Sha (India). Keywords: Informal settlements, economic network, social ties, inclusive redevelopment.
- (2016) Revisited Composition: Implementation Strategy for Mobility Based Development in Bandung City, Indonesia, by Putrikinasih Santoso (Indonesia). Keywords: sustainable urban development, mobility oriented development, TOD.
- (2016) Noords Spatial Civil Society Governance: Understanding the impacts of Participatiesamenleving for local spatial strategies, by Lynn van Calmthout (The Netherlands). Keywords: Participatiesamenleving, policies, responsibility, spatial policies.
- (2016) Connected São Paulo: Experimenting Participation in Urban Development, by Nina Dalla Bernardina (Brazil). Keywords: participation, democracy, collaboration, urban regeneration, self-organisation.
- (2014) A spatial strategy for Paraisópolis, an informal settlement in São Paulo, Brazil, by Belinda van Zijl (The Netherlands). Keywords: informal urbanisation, slum upgrading, participation.
- (2013) The greater Kaunas in pursuit of coherence: Unlocking regional competitiveness and balanced development through a regional spatial strategy, by Viktorija Gailiute (Lithuania). Keywords: regional development, regional design, landscape, mobility strategies.
- (2013) Mobility as Justice: Metropolitan Mobility Strategy for a Socially Equitable Bucharest, by Liviu Teodorescu (Romania). Keywords: metropolitan strategy, TOD, mobility, equality, spatial justice.
- (2011) Developing beyond limitations: a regional strategy for Xining, Qinghai province in China, by Yuli Zhou (China). Keywords: regional planning, urbanisation in China, sustainability, landscape and resources management.
- (2011) Child Friendly Cities: Urban Strategies For Mobility, by Stef Pieterse (NL). Keywords: child friendly environments, urban regeneration, urban design, empirical research, GIS.
- (2010) Utrecht-region under pressure: Development of a mobile strategy to keep the Utrecht region accessible, vital and liveable, by Van Dijk and Stinissen (NL). Keywords: city-regional design, mobility environments, regional spatial strategy.
- (2010) Today’s Main City Squares in Northwestern Europe, by Saskia Commandeur (NL). Keywords: squares, history, criteria for spatial quality.
- (2010) Shifting Gravity in the Utrecht region, by Joris Viscaal (NL). Keywords: Post-Vinex, densification, urbanisation, Utrecht, Leidsche Rijn.
- (2010) From lines to networks: creating links between the sub-centralities of Rio de Janeiro, by Joris Wiers (NL). Keywords: urban networks, infrastructure, transport, centrality, Rio de Janeiro.
- (2010) Dual Map 2040: Guide to a Vital, Diverse Jining, by Liang Chunxiao (China). Keywords: urban transformation, regional planning and design, resource cities transformation.
- (2010) City, catch the time! Rediscovering socialist neighbourhoods in a new capitalist society: Case in Vilnius Lithuania, by Justina Muliuolyte (Lithuania). Keywords: regeneration, post-socialist city, housing estates, strategy, network.
- (2010) Measuring urban capacity: Towards a systematic measurement of capacity for intensification of dwellings and industry, by Dena Kasraian Moghaddam (Iran). Keywords: intensification, capacity measurement, quantification, Westland.
- (2009) Urban Conditions for Creative Cities, by Sam Eftegarie (NL). Keywords: creative cities, urban milieu, learning, urban environments.
- (2009) Nanjing, Towards a Super University City, by Jing Jing (China). Keywords: creative cities, university cities, development, university campus.
- (2009) For Ordinary People: contributing to decrease social polarization in Beijing using the post-Olympic facilities, by Lingjuan Zhang (China). Keywords: Olympic cities, social polarisation, infrastructure.
- (2009) Emerging Neighbourhoods: or why piece-by-piece urbanism leads to flexible and diverse city development, by Thijs Jansen (NL). Keywords: flexible neighbourhoods, diversity, complexity theory.
- (2009) Delft, for knowledge and people: Connecting the Knowledge City with its citizens, by Christiane De Koning (NL). Keywords: knowledge city, Schieoevers, Schie canal banks.
- (2008) Pedal city: alternative urban system of mobility and accessibility to urban services for self-organizing economic activities in slums of Lusaka, Zambia, by Atsufumi Yokoi (Japan). Keywords: urban development, mobility, bottom-up design and planning, local conditions.
- (2008) How to regenerate Yeouido as an international business centre of Seoul, by So-Jeon Park (South Korea). Keywords: international business centres, airports, networks, central parks, public space.
- (2008) From urban barrier to urban connector: how to intervene to dissolve the existing barrier of the former military base, by Ji-Young Lee (South Korea). Keywords: urban intervention, urban transformation, urban network, Yongsan military base.
- (2024) Common Threads: An Anthology. Author: Ana Maria Suso Jimenez (Colombia). Keywords: Textiles, Female Agency, Crafts, Gender Binaries, Storytelling.
- (2021) Undividing Lahore: The Temple of Dialogue. Author: Badar Haq (The Netherlands). Keywords: Water, resilience, sustainability, culture.
- (2021) Architect as a mediator; Exhibition about co-living at the Jacoba Van Beierenlaan student housing complex. Author: Hanna Rudner (UK/Poland). Keywords: co-living, housing strategies, ethnography of housing, participatory research.
- (2020) An Urban Development Strategy for New Aruna Nagar, Majnu Ka Tilla, Delhi. Author: Jakob Schmitt (Germany). Keywords: Migration, Exile, Diaspora, Tibet, Informal urbanisation.
- (2019) Burkinabé Domesticity: A contextualised response to rapid urbanisation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Author: Robyne Somé (The Netherlands). Keywords: domestic architecture, culture-based design, demographic transition, housing, Burkina Faso.
- (2018) Mess is More: Iterating Dwelling design processes for the urban poor in Delhi. Author: Deepanshu Arneja (India). Keywords: self-organization, informality, slum upgrading, affordable housing.
- (2016) Together: Participatory methods in Architectural Design: creating public values for urban regeneration. Author: Mar Muñoz Aparici. Keywords: Participation, identity, public values, planning, deprived urban areas.
- (2016) Fair factory, towards safe and healthy textile factories in Bangladesh. Author: Stephan van Berkel (Netherlands). Keywords: industrial architecture, occupational safety, Bangladesh.
- (2016) Counteracting Socio-spatial Segregation through Architectural Verwandlung. Author: Linda de Geus. Keywords: Social Segregation, Spatial Justice, Public Realm, São Paulo, Social Integration.
- (2015) Resilient DenCity: Building With Water: Green Network in the New Jersey shoreline. Author: Matteo Ferrarese (Italy). Keywords: Water management, ecosystem, sustainable mobility, resiliency.
- (2014) Integrated Integrative Infrastructure: The local dimension of metropolitan mobility systems in São Paulo. Author: Maarten Kempenaar (The Netherlands). Keywords: infrastructure, metropolitan mobility, São Paulo.
- (2013) Integrating Informality: A Case for an Informal Settlement in Mumbai. Author: Rohan Varma (India). Keywords: informality, informal settlement, Mumbai.
- (2011) São Paulo and the merging Polis: On urban informality, violence and the public realm in São Paulo’s periphery. Author: Jan van Ballegooien (NL). Keywords: informality, violence, public realm, São Paulo.
- (2011) In_Formal Spaces: Towards Urbanity in the Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro. Author: A. Stallaart (NL). Keywords: urbanisation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, informal architecture.
- (2024) Empowering the Commons? Analysing the effects of Public Collective Collaboration on urban commons governance in Amsterdam, by Thomas van der Deijl (The Netherlands).
- (2024) Closing the gap in urban shared mobility availability: Increasing accessibility in Amsterdam Zuidoost, by Savanna Kamsma (The Netherlands).
- (2024) Collaborative Governance in the Urban (Re)Development of Hoogvliet, by Margot van Borren (The Netherlands).
- (2024) Instanblue Space: Evaluating Blue Space Regeneration in Istanbul from a Spatial Justice Perspective, by Stijn Bruijsten (The Netherlands).
- (2024) Breaking Barriers: Investigating Urban Gating Proliferation and Sustainable Solutions for Bangkok, by Tanaphat Sangkharom (Thailand).
- (2023) A Voice in Every Home: A Citizen-Centric Approach to Housing Renewal in Singapore, by Adam Shehabuddin (Singapore).
- (2023) Understanding the Chinampa system to identify opportunities for better governance in Mexico City, by Mariana Bobadilla García (Mexico).
- (2023) Composting Business Food Waste in Masterton, New Zealand, by Feiko de Bruin (New Zealand).
- (2022) Towards a Circular Food Landscape in Peri-urban Neighbourhoods: A case study of Brasilândia, São Paulo, Brazil, by Sofia Valentini (Brazil/Italy).
- (2022) Housing co-op: a new sustainable housing form? by Madelief Ritt. Keywords: housing cooperative, collective housing, wooncoöperatie.
- (2022) Justice in the Redevelopment of Urban Heritage Sites: Socio-Spatial Justice in the North Shore area, Liverpool, by Matthew Roberts (UK).
- (2021) I wish I had a river: Water Governance and the Implementation of Water sensitive Solutions for Tepic, Mexico, by Roberto Carlos Marquez Estrada (Mexico).
- (2021) CLEARing a path for accessible green citizen participation in Amsterdam, by Carla ten Kate (The Netherlands).
- (2021) Reflecting on Urban Agriculture as a tool for citizen engagement in Amsterdam SE, by Merel Schonagen (The Netherlands).
- (2026) Manufactured Scarcities: urban water futures of Bengaluru, by Jaee Naik (India).
- (2026) Everybody Cool Down! Site-specific strategy for equitable heat adaptation at local scale in Nanchang, China, by Hongyue Kang (China).
- (2025) Unlocking Social Value in Real Estate: A business redesign journey for real estate organisations considering, creating, and delivering social value, by Jaqueline Mongeroth.
- (2019) Satisfying Urban Thirst: Towards a water sensitive and inclusive urban ecosystem through the metabolism of Cape Town. Author: Dóra Hegyi (Hungary).
- (2019) forEverglades City: Interdisciplinary design approach for a resilient, adaptive and sustainable redevelopment of Everglades City. Author: Jean-Pierre Droge.
- (2018) Transformative Resilience: A Study of Derivative Form of Resilience in Informal Settlement, Bukit Duri, Jakarta. Author: Ardian Wiratama (Indonesia).
- (2018) From Fearscapes to Public Spaces: A New Dialogue Between the Citizens and Their Democratic Public Domain. Author: Ipek Kahraman.
- (2017) Water From Within: How to decrease inter-basin water-transfer by enhancing Mexico City’s own potable water sources. Author: Sergio Abraham Berumen Milburn.
- (2017) The Public Carpet: renewal of post conflict transitioning districts in Prishtina. Author: Thomas Victor Vink.
- (2017) The lost and hidden water of São Paulo: The potentials of the natural system in city development strategies. Author: Harm van der Zanden.
- (2016) Spatial Water Management in Paraisópolis, São Paulo. Author: Willard van der Velden.
- (2016) Bridging the gap: Creating common goals for flood risk management and urban poverty. Author: Nirul Ramkisor.
- (2014) Building the future in a town of the past: A plan and strategy for the spatial integration of the university campus in Delft. Author: Ruben Lentz.
- (2014) Brown Line Park: Regenerating abandoned industrial transportation infrastructures in the Ruhr area, Essen. Author: Ruahao Wu.
- (2013) People’s Commune 2.0 Reconfiguration: Developing a Participatory Strategy for Upgrading Chinese Post-danwei communities. Author: WU Xiayu.
- (2013) Identity in Post-Disaster Re-Development: local identity in the redevelopment of Haiti’s urban slums. Author: Wouter Pocornie.
- (2012) Managing the workplace in a globalized world. Author: Evelien Plijter.
- (2011) Urban Vitality: Exploring the centrality conditions. Author: Elena Selezneva.
- (2011) Corporate Socially Responsible Real Estate Management. Author: Thyssen, J.
- (2010) Office Site Typology: a systematic approach to type construction of office sites. Author: Mariam Annali.
- (2010) Grow up Songjiang New Town: Analysis and Strategy. Author: Hong Liu.
- (2009) Knowledge Backbone: a new economic area in Rio de Janeiro’s urban voids. Author: Rafael Alencar Saraiva.
- (2009) Catching the train: Sustainable development of a connection to the European high-speed train network in Copenhagen. Author: Tjitske Van Erp.
- (2009) Casa de Cultura | Patos de Minas: spatial interventions to stimulate development in Brazil. Author: Matthijs Van Loon.
- (2012) Urban strategy and architectural design for the district 23 de Enero, Caracas, Venezuela. Author: Alexandra Voch.
- EMU Fall 2019. Spatial Strategies for the Just City: inclusive and fair sustainability transitions in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area.
- EMU Fall 2018. Urban Region Networks: Automation and the Changing Landscape of Work II, The Hague-Rotterdam.
- EMU Fall 2017. Automation and the Changing Landscape of Work: A Strategy for the Region of South Holland.
- EMU Fall 2016. The Quarter Million Question: housing and the Sustainable Network City Region.
- EMU Fall 2015. Metropooling the Zuidvleugel 2040.
- EMU Fall 2014. The Knowledge Ecosystem: coherent knowledge-based spatial development.
- EMU Fall 2013. Crossing Borders: Next_BRABANT.
- EMU Fall 2012. A Spatial Strategy for Rotterdam-Den Haag: An Emerging Urban Region Network.
- EMU Fall 2011. Randstad and São Paulo: Mobility and Urbanization in two strategies.
- EMU Fall 2010. Utrecht: a place for knowledge?
- EMU Fall 2009. Ruropolis in the making: A strategic approach for South Holland.
- EMU Fall 2008. Looping the Archipelago: a strategy for the Southwing of Randstad Holland 2040.
- (2020) Local dynamics for a decentralized future: possible strategies for intermediate cities in Peru. Author: Carola Vega.
- (2020) Guaranteeing Quality for Social Housing: Key to fight urban poverty in Mexican cities. Author: Laura Germania German German.
- (2020) Blurred Boundaries: Towards an integrated governance system beyond the Zuid. Author: Florencia Rodriguez.
- (2018) Social and Spatial Integration of Social Housing: Case Study in Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Author: Julia Daibert.
- (2018) Metropolitan borders: A mobility strategy to redistribute the metropolitan region of Recife, Brazil. Author: Julio Vaitsman de Faria.
- (2017) Design Methods for a water-sensitive city: Brasilia as a case study. Author: Rebeca Rabello.
- (2009) From Public Space to Public Domain. Author: Mariana Faver.
- (2020) Migration Flow Management and Urban Regeneration in the Mediterranean: the case of Greece. Author: Konstantina Schoina.
Most graduation projects are available for download from the TU Delft Academic Repository.