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Vaalavuo, M. (author), van Ham, M. (author), Kauppinen, T.M. (author)Concentration to disadvantaged neighbourhoods may hinder immigrants’ opportunities for social integration, so equal chances of translating available economic resources into mobility to less disadvantaged neighbourhoods are important. This paper adds to existing research on exits from poor neighbourhoods by focusing on the effects of income...working paper 2017
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Kloosterman, Nienke (author)In today's society, women are still not positioned as equals to men. This is no different in the field of architecture. When designing the built environment, the white man is still the norm and within the work field, the man still fills the majority of the higher positions in architectural firms. However, women have a different, more care...student report 2022
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van Vliet, Kimberly (author)Concluderend is het antwoord op de onderzoeksvraag ‘Wat zijn overeenkomsten en verschillen tussen de collectieve woonvormen van het Coöperatiehuis (1930) en het Vierwindenhuis (1980) en hoe komt dit tot uitdrukking in de ontwerpen?’ dat het Coöperatiehuis en het Vierwindenhuis met verschillende ontwerpfilosofieën ontwikkeld zijn. Ze zijn met...student report 2021
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Nistor, Ana (author)This essay explores the relationship between dwelling architecture and mental health, with a particular focus on the housing constructed in Vienna and London between 1840 and 1919, during a period of unprecedented growth that followed the Industrial Revolution. Contemporary building standards guarantee that current dwelling architecture does not...student report 2024
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Jansen, S.J.T. (author)People’s residential preferences are generally predicted on the basis of socio-demographic characteristics. Recently, however, it is argued that these variables no longer suffice and that they should be supplemented with lifestyle variables. The cur-rent study explores this assumption for a number of residential preferences. A life-style...report 2011
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Boelhouwer, P.J. (author), Elsinga, M. (author), Visscher, H. (author), Ouwehand, A. (author), Janic, M. (author), Korthals Altes, W.K. (author), Van Oosterom, P. (author)The OTB’s research covers the areas of housing, urban, mobility and geo-studies. The research activities deal with the built environment, and refer to aspects of the technological sciences, the policy and management sciences, the behavioural sciences, spatial disciplines and the application of information and communications technology. This...report 2010
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Deng, W. (author), Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author)This paper reviews the housing policy of China from 1949-2013. It examines the housing tenure change, policy instruments, and impacts social structures in different time periods. After the welfare period of 1949-77, the dual provision period of 1978-1998, and the market dominant period of 1999-2011, China’s housing policy was again reformed...report 2015
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Jansen, S.J.T. (author)Residential satisfaction is an important topic in the domain of housing. It refers to the individuals’ appraisal of the conditions of their residential environment, in relation to their needs, expectations and achievements. In the current study respondents were asked to indicate their residential satisfaction on a scale ranging from 1 (very...report 2012
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Dol, C.P. (author), Heylen, K. (author)Combating poverty and social exclusion is a core policy issue in the European Union (EU). The Statis-tics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) database facilitates analyses of the extent of poverty and social exclusion. One of the indicators built from the database is the at-risk-of-poverty indicator. Applied to households, it indicates...report 2014
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Mlecnik, E. (author)Een groot bestand van gebouwen in Nederland is in eigendom van Verenigingen van Eigenaren (VvE’s) en is toe aan renovatie en energetische verduurzaming. Het aantal grondige renovaties van dergelijke gebouwen is in de praktijk nog laag, mede door een trage ontwikkeling van het Nederlands renovatiebeleid, een gebrek aan motivatie van bewoners om...report 2021
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Straub, A. (author)The building stock has a big importance in reaching Europe’s climate goals. The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive therefore states the need for nearly zero-energy buildings. Nearly zero-energy buildings are a key aspect to reduce the energy use of the built environment. Since a large share of the building stock of 2050 currently already...report 2016
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Jabar, Shajwan (author)Currently there is a high demand for more housing dwellings, a change in housing compositions, mis-match between household profiles and their space and lastly a growing demand in sustainability, circularity and adaptivity. Re-adaptive housing prevents demolition, transformation to non-housing functions, is more sustainable and continuously meet...master thesis 2022
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Morosetti, L. (author)Application and adaptation of the monastic typology to contemporary collective housing.master thesis 2015
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Piszcz, Dagmara (author)The Amsterdam is currently facing a housing crisis, which, especially in the center, is party caused with people moving to Amsterdam of short period of time. The temporariness of housing will be even more present in the future. The researched characteristics of year 2100 will be globalization, fast transportation, flexibility in terms of work...master thesis 2019
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Borbély, Blanka (author)The following thesis is an architectural and urban design for the expanding Zuidas area in Amsterdam for the year of 2050. It is a social and economical experiment of different social classes living together, and taking advantage of the interdependence they have on each other.master thesis 2018
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Dijk, Tijmen (author)There is an urgent need for affordable housing solutions in the Netherlands before 2030. However, the focus should not only be on producing new dwellings, but rather on creating homes and neighbourhoods that meet the needs of the future population. In Dutch cities there is a change in the residential culture and there is a large lack of...master thesis 2021
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Emmelot, Jesse (author)As of 2020, the Netherlands experiences a housing shortage of around 300,000. To respond to the projected demand, around 80,000 houses should be built every year towards 2030. At the same time, the Dutch government has had ambitions and plans towards a circular economy by 2050. Their plans were released in 2016, after which...master thesis 2021
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Summers, Ben (author)This paper researches the formation of the Swedish variant of cohousing (kollektivhus) by examining the ideas and cultures which inspired it and asks the question: what has been the contribution of the architect within this history?<br/>Re-writing the script for life at home has been a collective task involving many agents of change and, perhaps...master thesis 2019
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Fougerouse, Manon (author)This question might sound very broad: What future for the architecture? What future for the people living in it? What is Post-War housing? What political and social thought is behind it? What kind of place does it hold in the city? Who designed it? Who are its inhabitants? Moreover, what kind of problem is it subject to think it needs a new...master thesis 2021
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van den Boom, Ruben (author)The project concerns the refurbishment of post-war housing, specifically the Camera Obscura in Utrecht. The proposed plan is based upon: 1) technical parameters for energy neutrality, 2) the problems specified by the building analysis and 3) four types of flexibility, to enable inhabitants to influence their dwellings.master thesis 2017