Projects
Implications of Post-Disaster Heritage Tourism Regeneration of an Urban Cultural Hub: Gemmayzé and Mar Mikhael in the aftermath of the Beirut-port blast KU Leuven
The increasing reliance on tourism as an instrument for development has magnified the impacts of disasters on tourism destinations, particularly those that rely on heritage as a primary attraction. Recent heritage tourism discourse suggests that further understanding of the implications of post-disaster reorganisation on heritage-tourism viability is required. The Gemmayze and Mar Mikhael neighbourhoods, which form one of Beirut’s main ...
The Aspects of Community-Based Approach towards Adaptive Reuse of Heritage Buildings, as a catalyst for Urban Regeneration: A Case Study of Heritage Buildings in the Historic Town of Bagamoyo. Hasselt University
City-centered approach to catalyze nature-based solutions through the EU Regenerative Urban Lighthouse for pollution alleviation and regenerative development (UPSURGE). University of Antwerp
City-centered approach to catalyze nature-based solutions through the EU Regenerative Urban Lighthouse for pollution alleviation and regenerative development (UPSURGE). University of Antwerp
INHABIT THE RUIN: Insights on regeneration of depopulated villages in the Altoaragonese Pyrenees. Intervention strategies for transformation and revival of architectural and immaterial legacy. KU Leuven
Sobrepuerto is a territory at the Spanish Pyrenees which was entirely depopulated in the 1960s due to remoteness, socio-economic outdate and devastating national territorial policies, causing a fast transformation of the landscape, and generating problems of heritage preservation, territorial management and memory loss.
However, regeneration of nature and growth of urban population interest about countryside has triggered the ...
Resilient Collective Spaces: Rethinking urban spaces defined by commercial programs: disentangling the formal and informal mechanisms of urban projects. KU Leuven
Today, the impact of a growing secularization, the substantial increase of leisure time and the economic transformation based on consumption in a western context redefine the main actors in the contemporary city and affect on how we experience and use collective spaces as part of our daily environment.
The morphological understanding of these collective spaces (Solà-Morales, 2008) as shared areas - that are no longer exclusively ...
How (do) we live together? Everyday Acts of Citizenships & Critical Urban Practice/s in post-migratory Berlin and Johannesburg KU Leuven
This thesis explores the everyday agency of migrants in contemporary Berlin, Germany, and Johannesburg, South Africa. Rooted in more than ten years of practice on the topic, the research scrutinises the roles, responsibilities and possible futures of critical urban practitioners in the context of increasingly super-diverse societies and urban settings. The exploration begins in 2005 at the practice’s inception and considers 2015 as a ...
Capturing the unearned increment: urban planning, land value capture and financialization University of Antwerp
(De)radicalization and the multicultural city. Security, urban policy and everyday life in Brussels and Marseille. A comparative study. KU Leuven
Migration, integration and security have been among the major issues of urban governance in European metropolitan centres since the early 19th century and have been the object of various studies. Yet, less attention has been paid to how urban and security policies targeting ‘immigrant neighbourhoods’ in European cities have been transformed in our era of the ‘war on terror’. Taking Brussels and Marseille as our case studies, this project ...