Prof. Ir. Kees Christiaanse | Architecture and Urban Design
His team is participating in national and international research programs, working on Swiss National Fund (SNF) sponsored doctorates as well as on external university cooperative projects. The team has a constant exchange with experts from the profession and perform research on urban design and related specialist fields. Special attention is given to combining research, teaching and practice. A variety of methods are applied to find specific answers to questions on the phenomenon of the city.
The central research questions of the Chair remain the challenges of a sustainable urban design. Sustainability is considered a comprehensive concept that is the centre of the research, far beyond technical-ecological indicators and the long-term development capability of the city as a resource.
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Airports and Cities
Airports and Cities is a research platform that brings together projects investigating the complex and multi-faceted reciprocity of urban and airport development to better understand the contemporary city and its mechanisms of urbanisation.
Kulturlandschaft (Cultural Landscape)
Everything shaped by humans is culture. This includes the territory. Cultural landscapes are created by the constant interaction of humans with nature. Their regional characteristics are due to natural conditions and increase
Urban Breeding Grounds
Urban landscapes of metropolitan regions are subjected to permanent change. This does not take place homogeneously throughout the entire territory but rather captures entire quarters in cycles. Through structural, economic, social or
Urban Potential and Strategies in Metropolitan Regions
This research vessel combines practical and theoretical efforts to investigate metropolitan regions and their constituent parts using analytical and design methods to analyse strategies and planning instruments of urban regions and to