From pig barn to family apartment?: A Master Thesis on the opportunities and challenges of housing developments on livestock farm locations

In 2022, the Netherlands are confronted by two major problems: a housing shortage and an excess of nitrogen emissions. This excess of nitrogen emissions is primarily the result of livestock farms, which cause problems in close proximity to Natura 2000 areas. The housing- and nitrogen crises are intertwined because certain housing developments...

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A qualitative study into the influence a private developer could exert in shaping an entrepreneurial ecosystem

Entrepreneurs are indispensable to our society. They translate innovative ideas into valuable products and services which in several cases also contribute to a more sustainable, convenient, and ethical world. Moreover, entrepreneurship is one of the most significant drivers of economic growth in a particular area. The entrepreneurship literature...

Strategizing Towards Agreements That Create And Capture Added Value: A mixed method exploratory case study to guide future area developments in a neo-liberal urban landscape

The urban challenges of today are plentiful. A million houses need to be built in the next decade, urban development needs to allow for climate adaptation and contribute to the energy transition. It needs to ensure sustainable economic growth potential in a circular and social economic fashion. The active forms of land policy that where standard...

The added value of mixed-use: An exploratory study into the added value of mixed-use real estate development in the Netherlands

Due to the changing role of the private sector in the Dutch land development process, real estate developers are increasingly involved in realising the interests of the direct surroundings of their redevelopment projects. To incorporate the seemingly unprofitable space-use in their project, developers increasingly opt for mixed-use real estate....

First AID for Area Development: What the Area Improvement District is, how it creates collective value and why it changes the paradigm on urban governance

The conditions that determine when and why individuals can be forced to contribute to collective services are part of an ongoing debate in the spatial planning and urban governance domain. In this thesis the problem of and a solution to free-ridership in area developments with existing property owners alongside incoming real estate developers,...

Future of cities: A research for the optimization of the application of instruments within a municipality to increase sustainability in area development

Currently the world is dealing with a pandemic. The world has stopped, and people are distancing from each other. However, this large crisis is not the only crisis the world is currently dealing with. Climate change is affecting the world drastically since the last century. Our current way of development must stop to deal with this change. This...

Energy planning for the unknown: On the potential of adaptive planning to guide the development of a future-proof energy system for the case of Schieoevers Noord, Delft

The Netherlands has a strong tradition of blueprint planning in spatial design. Since the financial crisis of 2008, a shift has been made to more organic approaches to development. Currently, a paradigm is evolving which is able to deal with complex challenges that the built environment faces today: a shortage of housing and a transition to...

Cruise On Paramaribo

Surname is known for its rich colonial history and its export of coffee, cocoa and sugar, produced on plantations. Workforce was pulled away from agriculture industry when bauxite became an important export product which mines got exhausted recently. Nowadays, mining of minerals such as oil and gold is important for the economy of Suriname. The...