Intelligent SUBsurface Quality: Intelligent use of subsurface infrastructure for surface quality

This project focuses on the urban renewal of (delta) metropolises and concentrates on the question how to design resilient, durable (subsurface) infrastructure in urban renewal projects using parameters of the natural system – linking in an efficient way (a) water cycle, (b) soil and subsurface conditions, (c) soil improvement technology, and (d...

Lessons Learned From the Largest Tenure Mix Operation in the World: Right to Buy in the United Kingdom

In the last few decades, urban renewal policies have taken firm root in many Western European countries. Underlying these renewal policies is a strong belief in negative neighborhood effects of living in poverty concentration areas, often neighborhoods with a large share of social housing. In Europe, great importance is attached to creating a...

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...

Europese vergelijking stedelijke vernieuwing in de Europese Unie, Frankrijk, Engeland en Nordrhein-Westfalen

European comparison of urban renewal in the European Union, France, England and North Rhine-Westphalia.