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The Rampart, The Traffic Artery, and the Park; Designing for the city regions of Antwerp

Through a close reading of Antwerp’s current spatial and socio-economic composition, and the introduction of the interplay between the city’s three defining paradigms – abstracted to ‘The Rampart, the Traffic Artery, and the Park’ – this study tries to sketch a unifying strategy for Antwerp’s metropole. A strategy that embeds residential, economic, cultural, recreational, climatic, and historical motives within the different city regions. Thereby improving the connection between the left and right side of the river; transitioning the suburban region to a more polycentric structure while maintaining a spatial relation to the city; and explicitly manages the horizontal growth of the periphery. But that most importantly, captures the metropole in a single narrative from its inner-city to its outer edges. Graduation thesis prepared for the master’s degree in urban design at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

Through a close reading of Antwerp’s current spatial and socio-economic composition, and the introduction of the interplay between the city’s three defining paradigms – abstracted to ‘The Rampart, the Traffic Artery, and the Park’ – this study tries to sketch a unifying strategy for Antwerp’s metropole. A strategy that embeds residential, economic, cultural, recreational, climatic, and historical motives within the different city regions. Thereby improving the connection between the left and right side of the river; transitioning the suburban region to a more polycentric structure while maintaining a spatial relation to the city; and explicitly manages the horizontal growth of the periphery. But that most importantly, captures the metropole in a single narrative from its inner-city to its outer edges.

Graduation thesis prepared for the master’s degree in urban design at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

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Population density - agglomeration 2019 Average number of rooms - Antwerp 2019

250 < 3.500

3500 < 7.000

7.000 < 10.500

10.500 < 14.000

> 14.000

< 3

3

4

5

> 6

Average income per inhabitant - agglomeration 2017

Property value - Antwerp 2014

< 15.000

15.000 < 20.000

20.000 < 25.000

25.000 < 30.000

> 30.000

< 125.000

125.000 < 175.000

175.000 < 225.000

225.000 < 275.000

> 275.000

Amount of social rent dwellings - agglomeration 2019

Average rent private sector - Antwerp 2019

1 < 200

200 < 400

400 < 600

600 < 800

> 800

< 600

600 < 700

700 < 800

800 < 900

> 900

158

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