Spatial planning and urban resilience in the context of flood risk: A comparative study of Kaohsiung, Tainan and Rotterdam

Spatial planning is increasingly being considered as an important mechanism in coping with flood risk due to climate change. One of the reasons for this is that engineering approaches are increasingly expensive and cannot provide complete certainty of protection against climate-related floods. The thesis examines whether and how spatial planning...

Urban Regeneration in a Market Oriented Decision Environment: A Deeper Understanding of the Plan-, Decision making and Development Process in a Market Oriented Approach to Urban Regeneration and its Possible Physical and Socio-demographic implications in Dutch Deprived Neighbourhoods

The Dutch government aims since the 1990s at a more market oriented approach in urban planning with different implications in terms of who benefits and loses from interventions in vulnerable places such as neighbourhoods of empowerment (krachtwijken). This policy shift and way of thinking about urban planning implicated big changes in the...

Climate awareness, preparation resilience and measuring adaptability of the governance system in Rotterdam for flood risks