Material Urbanism The theme of Material Urbanism is concerned with understanding location as a material culture and as affordance for situated action. It is concerned also with finding the structural link between the city as it is made and the city as it is found by its inhabitants. It is intended to deliver models which will be of use to designers interested in the production of place and of public space in the contemporary city. We research the way centrality effects impact on economic and social patterns as well as on people and groups and on the ways communities and identities are constructed in place. Projects: Station – the New Centrality, the effects of urban form on the live-ability of the area around the railway station: the Metropolitan cases Collaboration: with research team Delta Design PhD candidate: Camelia Mulders-Kusumo Supervisors: Prof D. Frieling, Prof J. Schrijnen, Dr S. Read PhD thesis completed in 2007 Conditions for re-conceptualising the contemporary urban local scale. PhD candidate: M. Mendonça Supervisors: Prof H.J. Rosemann, Dr S. Read PhD thesis to be completed in 2008 A Framework for Mapping the Ecologies of Urban Groups: Analysis of the public visibility of Anatolian origin immigrants in Amsterdam and Istanbul PhD candidate: C. Sezer Supervisors: Prof H.J. Rosemann, Dr S. Read PhD thesis to be completed in 2009 | 
