Integrating the traditional Emirati community within urban fabric of the city to enhance the historical identity

The site of Al Ain Civic Centre consists of major vacant lands and scattered development. This site is facing many issues such as car dependency, disconnectivity, low-density development, poor quality of life, and lost identity. Even though Al Ain city is well known for its green and open spaces, yet still such spaces cannot serve this site...

Bibliometric dataset (1990–2019) concerning 35 city labels dealing with sustainable urbanism

This data article presents a tripartite dataset that formed the empirical basis for a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the use of city labels denoting sustainable urbanism in the scientific literature (Schraven, 2021). The tripartite dataset was generated using the abstract and citation database Scopus (Elsevier). Dataset A lists 148...

Metro systems and urban development: Impacts and implications

Many cities in the world have developed metro systems. Metro systems affect urban development in many ways, such as enhancing labour force mobility, increasing urban productivity and promoting urban underground space (UUS) utilisation to accommodate urban functions. This paper explores the relationship between metro systems and urban...

The many shades of grey in urban governance: How illegality shapes urban planning, policy and development

Most research on urban planning, policy and development only considers legal practices and actors, and treats illegal ones as insignificant anomalies, unable to structurally affect the governance of urban space. However, this approach is inadequate for explaining urban governance in contexts (e.g. several countries in the Global South, the...

Historic urban landscape: A systematic review, eight years after the adoption of the HUL approach

Purpose: The main aim of this paper is to determine how well the UNESCO 2011 Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscape (hereafter, the HUL approach) is understood by the academic community today. It will review relevant research, highlight shortcomings regarding the HUL concept and approach and explore how well the six proposed steps are...

Spatial impact of automated driving in urban areas

Urban form develops in close feedback with different modes of transportation. The introduction and adoption of automated vehicles (AVs) are expected to have an impact on the development of cities as well, as the use of AVs may, for example, lead to more efficient road use and less need for parking spaces. In order to study those impacts, we...

Leren van stedelijke transformatie: Over sturingsdilemma's en veerkracht in binnenstedelijke gebiedsontwikkeling

Bij stedelijke transformaties proberen we de bestaande gebouwde omgeving aan te passen aan onze huidige en toekomstige behoeften. Dat is echter makkelijker gezegd dan gedaan. Op het pad van transformatie bevinden zich nogal wat organisatorische, financiële, en juridische barrières. Tijdens een gebiedstransformatie is het bovendien noodzakelijk...

Succesvol energiebeleid in gebiedsontwikkeling vereist pionierswerk

Het realiseren van klimaatdoelen is complex, omdat er vaak een gat bestaat tussen beleidsintenties en acties. Gebiedsontwikkeling kan een belangrijke drager zijn voor de implementatie van energiebeleid. Door in gebieden energie-oplossingen te integreren, leveren zij een bijdrage aan de energietransitie. In dit artikel laat onderzoeker Erwin...

From landscape to mindscape: Spatial narration of touristic Amsterdam

The cultural attributes of architecture in touristic cities are vital to city image building, city branding, and rebranding, as well as generating more economic profits for sustainable urban development, and protecting cultural sustainability. However, many studies on this theme focus on the singularity of architecture referring to its...

Campus-city relations: past, present and future

In the global knowledge economy, attracting and retaining talent is the most important mutual goal of universities and cities. They work together in the worldwide competition for talent. The locations of universities play an important role in the competitive profile of cities and regions because they concentrate this human capital....

Learning from co-housing initiatives: Between Passivhaus engineers and active inhabitants

Following the UN world summits on Climate Change (Paris 2015) and Habitat (Quito 2016), most European cities assume an active role to implement internationally agreed goals related to climate change, translated in the so-called New Urban Agenda. At the same time, the urban housing market is increasingly inaccessible for low- and middle-income...

Strategies for sustainable private sector-led urban development projects in the Netherlands

Strategies and partnerships for delivering sustainable private sector-led urban development projects are yet to be effectuated. Despite the fact that actors in real estate development increasingly incorporate sustainability features into decision-making, it seems that developing sustainable urban areas – taking into account more complex social,...

Path Dependence in Financing Urban Infrastructure Development in China: 1949–2016

In the past few decades, urban infrastructures in China have seen an enormous upgrade, and due to large-scale urbanization many more investments are due in the coming years. In order to supplement public funding, Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and municipal bonds have recently grown popular in China. The introduction of this new policy does...

Dear is Durable: Liber amicorum for Hans de Jonge

This book presents a huge number of contributions on corporate and public real estate management, urban development management, design and construction management and housing. These topics correspond with the names of the four sections of the Department of Management in the Built Environment at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built...

Economics, cost and quality from a design perspective

The department of MBE was originally called Real Estate & Project Management (BMVB: ‘Bouwmanagement & Vastgoedbeheer’) covering the domains of construction management and real estate management. The “raison d’être” for this new department was based on the recognition that a fair amount of architecture graduates were more interested in...

Technology campuses and cities: A study on the relation between innovation and the built environment at the urban area level

This thesis examines the development of technology campuses and their role in stimulating innovation. The main result of this thesis is a model for understanding and managing the relationship between the built environment and innovation at the urban area level. This model developed mainly throughout an inductive approach in two core studies. The...