Neighborhood decline and the economic crisis: An introduction

Urban neighborhoods are still important in the lives of its residents. Therefore, it is important to find out how the recent global financial and economic crisis affects these neighborhoods. Which types of neighborhoods and which residents suffer more than others? This introduction provides an overview of the papers in this special feature that...

The global financial crisis and neighborhood decline

Neighborhood decline is a complex and multidimensional process. National and regional variations in economic and political structures (including varieties in national welfare state arrangements), combined with differences in neighborhood history, development, and population composition, make it impossible to identify an ideal-type process of...

Lessen over buurtontwikkeling en buurtverval

Steden zijn een bron en broedplaats van economische en culturele ontwikkeling. Maar wat is nu de kracht van de stad? Om dit uit te zoeken hebben onderzoekers en professionals hun krachten en expertise gebundeld in het programma Kennis voor Krachtige Steden (KKS). Het resultaat: concrete oplossingsrichtingen voor stedelijke sociaal-economische...

Neighborhood Decline and the Economic Crisis (discussion paper)

Neighborhood decline is a complex and multidimensional process. National and regional variation in economic and political structures (including variety in national welfare state arrangements), combined with differences in neighborhood history, development and population composition, makes it extremely difficult to identify a unilateral process...

Strategies for upgrading the physical environment in deprived urban areas: Examples of good practice in Europe

Urban change spans all ages. However, some neighbourhoods do not adapt gradually to changed circumstances, but lapse into deprivation. Urban policies are necessary in these areas to revitalise them. Cities across Europe have deprived areas, and urban renewal policies are carried out in all of them. These approaches are made up of several...

Stratégies pour valoriser l’environnement physique dans les zones urbaines défavorisées -: Exemples de bonnes pratiques en Europe

Le changement urbain s’étend sur tous les âges. Certains quartiers ne s’adaptent pas graduellement aux circonstances qui évoluent, mais glissent dans la défavorisation. Des politiques urbaines sont nécessaires pour redynamiser ces régions. Dans toute l’Europe, les villes ont des zones défavorisées et des politiques de renouvellement urbain y...

Städtebauliche Aufwertungsstrategien in benachteiligten Stadt-quartieren – gute Praxisbeispiele in Europa

Urbaner Wandel erstreckt sich über alle Zeitalter. Einige Quartiere passen sich veränderten Umständen nicht an, so dass sie verfallen und mit einer entsprechenden Politik des Stadtumbaus revitalisiert werden müs-sen. Viele Städte in Europa haben solche überforderten Nachbarschaften , in denen Stadter-neuerungspolitik umgesetzt wird. Diese...

The effects of forced relocations on improvements of the housing situation: A case study in four Dutch cities (draft version)

Urban restructuring takes place in numerous cities in Western European countries, often in the form of the demolition of relatively cheap dwellings and replacement by new, more expensive dwellings. This phenomenon has been studied extensively. Especially the effects of urban restructuring on the restructured areas themselves have been examined....

Reconsidering restructuring and relocation: Searching and evaluating waterbed effects (draft version)

The existence of deprived urban areas triggers many governments to change the physical and social structure of these areas. Sometimes policies are meant to change the area itself, in other cases the policies are meant to improve the situation of the residents. Urban restructuring policies change the deprived urban areas, usually because low-rent...

Reconsidering restructuring and relocation: Searching and evaluating waterbed effects

Powerpointpresentations plenary

High-rise housing in Europe: Current trends and future prospects

Comparative analysis

Maatschappelijke verandering en stedelijke dynamiek

Met nieuw elan: De herontdekking van het stedelijk wonen