Written by: Koen Olthuis and David Keuning. Publication: Frame, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2010.   Float! Building on Water to Combat Urban Congestion and Climate Change proposes a new way of building: on water instead of on land. Although the concept…

The petropolis of tomorrow, Neeraj Bhatia & Mary Casper, 2013. In recent years, Brazil has discovered vast quantities of petroleum deep within its territorial waters, inciting the construction of a series of cities along its coast and in the ocean.…

Written by: Koen Olthuis, Kasirajan Mahalingam, Pierre-Baptiste Tartas and Chris Zevenbergen.   Abstract A previous study by the authors found that most slum physical upgrading projects traditionally focus on basic services, elaborated with citywide data, without addressing locational and environmental…