Keywords: Urban densification, Car-reduced, Accessibility, Car dependency, Land use
As a result of continued urbanization and population growth, cities continue to grow. As available
land area is limited, cities opt to densify, rather than sprawl out further. In Eindhoven, the Netherlands, the municipality aims to add more than 35000 dwellings within the city before 2040. The
addition of these new dwellings will stress the existing transport infrastructure. In dense environments, maintaining private vehicle ownership levels causes problems. However, the ambition to
densify can provide an opportunity to revise the mobility system in the city. In densely populated
areas, many facilities and amenities can be concentrated strategically, reducing overall distances
that needs to be travelled.
Through a literature review, a list of neighborhood characteristics that contribute to car-reduced
potential is created. Additionally, interventions which can possibly be taken in the neighborhoods
are collected into an additional overview. A city-scale strategy is formed, based on the found interventions and an overview of the most important locations for a car-reducing mobility strategy. In the
final phase of the project, the discovered interventions are applied on neighborhood scale, resulting
in a redesign of the Gildebuurt and Woenselse Watermolen, both neighborhoods in central Eindhoven. The redevelopment proposal aims to densify the city by intervening in existing infrastructure
in an attempt to reduce car-dependency through design.