Resilience of coastal cities with accumulating climate-change coupled threats; Depends on the cooperation of government, experts and the citizens

Most cities in the world are coastal cities, especially facing accumulating climate-change coupled threats. These cities are precisely the ones that are growing the fastest, what makes this development a risk for millions of people in our world. These accumulating threats happen when seawater-level rise, clustered heavy rainfall, and...

Ingestorte IJsbrug van ‘Da Vinci’ in Juuka Finland een project vol kansen!

Societal Real-Estate, lifebuoy for social neighbourhoods in crisis times?

Digitale sociale communicatie, van ervaringen tot zakelijke zoektocht

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Sociaal duurzame wijken, zoektocht en uitdaging?

Sociale-cohesie in wijken krijgt in Nederland veel aandacht. De focus richt zich op excessen en ook veel wetenschappelijk onderzoek volgt die koers. Ontwerpers richten zich meer op kansen, op de duurzaamheid van onze samenleving, dit in het belang van bewoners maar ook omdat de fysieke herstructurering van wijken veel kost. Om tussen die twee...

Sustainable Housing Production, thanks to the Economic Crises

A drastic effect of the economic crises 2009 is the cutback of housing production in the Netherlands, a down-hill trend from 80.000 to 45.000 a year. Unless the population of the country is stable there is an enormous need for new housing every year. Housing production is required because of vitalisation of cities. Housing production in the...

Housing policy and community: A Dutch perspective

It is widely acknowledged that housing conditions have an enormous influence on the health of residents. Poor housing is consistently associated with high rates of mortality and morbidity, specifically with an increase in infectious and chronic diseases, stunted development in children and poor mental health (Krieger and Higgins, 2002). The...