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van Stijn, A. (author)
Creating a circular economy within the built environment plays a crucial role in society’s pursuit to become more sustainable. A building consists of building components, such as a kitchen, façade and roof. By replacing building components with more circular ones during new construction, maintenance and renovation, we can gradually make...
doctoral thesis 2023
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Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (author), Gentili, M. (author)
For young adults on the Amsterdam housing market the accessibility of housing has been decreasing for years, due to soaring house prices and rents, the shrinkage and residualization of the social rental sector, and the precarization of the labor market. Consequently, many young people struggle to secure an affordable and adequate dwelling and...
journal article 2023
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Spoormans, L.G.K. (author), Czischke, D.K. (author), Pereira Roders, A. (author), de Jonge, W. (author)
Although attention for citizen involvement in urban development and heritage management processes is growing, both in practice and in research, the specifics of stakeholders’ interests have been less researched. This paper reveals and discusses the assessment by individuals and groups, to differentiate stakeholders, based on the heritage...
journal article 2023
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Aalbers, Manuel (author), Taylor, Zac (author), Klinge, Tobias (author), Fernandez, Rodrigo (author)
 Real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been around since 1960 but have only become major players in housing markets in the last twenty years. The current and ongoing wave of residential REIT (R-REIT) expansion has attracted significant scholarly and broader public interest. This article examines how real estate, finance, and the state are...
journal article 2023
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Knuth, Sarah (author), Cox, Savannah (author), Zavareh Hofmann, Sahar (author), Morris, John (author), Taylor, Zac (author), McElvain, Beki (author)
As intensifying climate-related disasters strike cities across the United States, they are provoking rising concern for the stability of the U.S. housing market and broader financial system. How homeowners, mortgage lenders, federal institutions/regulators, and investors will variously encounter and manage climate risk is an urgent question...
journal article 2023
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Taylor, Zac (author), Knuth, Sarah E. (author)
Amidst growing concerns about climate risks to the U.S. housing markets, strategies to physically retrofit homes are gaining attention—including within debates over how to resolve intersecting crises of housing re/insurability and affordability in highly exposed sites like Florida. We consider an important but under-studied example of this ...
journal article 2023
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Eloy, Sara (author), Vermaas, P.E. (author)
Purpose: Customization is a paradox in architecture, providing necessary modernization for buildings but potentially damaging their architectural integrity. In this paper, the authors introduce the Inhabitant-Driven Customization approach for avoiding this paradox; this approach lets inhabitants design the customization from options created...
journal article 2022
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Schwake, G. (author)
Frontier settlements played a key role in the formation of Israeli society and its territorial project. In the pre-statehood years and during the first decades after the establishment of the state of Israel, settling the frontiers formed one of the main national objectives, securing the nation’s control over space while promoting a unified local...
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Martinez-Millana, Elena (author)
La domesticidad ha sido definida como un término que hace referencia a la experiencia de la vida privada, a las dimensiones materiales del hogar, y a una ideología que organiza cuestiones complicadas y a menudo controvertidas sobre la privacidad, el trabajo, la identidad de género, la familia, la formación del sujeto, la clase socioeconómica, la...
conference paper 2022
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van der Bent, H.S. (author), Meijer, A. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author), Mouter, N. (author)
Benchmarking is a method that can be used to measure progress and create awareness about the performance of organisations. Benchmarking the housing stock energy performance of Dutch housing associations can be used to measure and assess progress towards the decarbonisation of the housing stock. A new national climate agreement was signed in...
journal article 2022
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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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Wade, Faye (author), Visscher, H.J. (author)
Retrofitting domestic buildings is essential for meeting targets to mitigate the catastrophic impacts of our changing climate. Current rates of retrofitting are far lower than necessary for achieving global net zero climate targets. To date in privately owned homes, policymakers have largely relied on piecemeal activity and often short-lived...
contribution to periodical 2021
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Mlecnik, E. (author), Oung, Oubbol (author), Lelieveld, Ariane (author), de Snoo, Marianne (author), Vos, Coen (author)
Frontrunner local authorities aim to achieve a market acceleration in the owner-occupied single-family home renovation sector by increasing awareness of – and enabling access to – low-carbon technologies in residential target areas. With their easy availability, adaptability, and possible mobility, pop-up consultancy desks can provide local...
conference paper 2021
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Rocco, Roberto (author)
The article addresses the issue of how the coronavirus can give us clues on how<br/>to change our current views on informal urbanisation and radically transform the way in which we see social housing provision in Latin America. Despite the many ways in which informal urbanisation takes shape in Latin America, it is possible to generally assert...
book chapter 2021
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Overwater, Arnold (author), Yorke-Smith, N. (author)
Gentrification, displacement and social exclusion are hot topics of debate in the city of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. A current phenomena is short-term rentals of private homes. In its peer-to-peer form, this phenomena has grown sharply, facilitated by services such as Airbnb. Its growth has caused controversies among communities in touristic...
journal article 2021
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Schwake, G. (author)
The settlements along the Trans-Israel Highway illustrate the privatisation of the national settlement enterprise. To understand this process, this dissertation focuses on the settlement production mechanism, which consists of the reciprocal interests of the government and various private groups to develop and domesticate the border area between...
doctoral thesis 2020
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Schwake, G. (author)
The ‘Stars’ are series of suburban settlements adjacent to the border with the occupied West-Bank which illustrate the increasing privatisation of the Israeli settlement mechanism. Unlike earlier examples, which were dictated by pioneer ideology or individualistic attempts to achieve better living standards, during the 1990s the state adopted...
journal article 2020
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Shahab, Sina (author), Hartmann, Thomas (author), Jonkman, Arend (author)
How do municipalities strategically use land policy to develop land for housing? The development of housing is a challenge for many European countries, though the scale and time of it differs. Issues are not always about the absolute number of houses that need to be supplied in a country. The distribution and quality of houses affect the demand...
journal article 2020
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Chagas Cavalcanti, A.R. (author)
This doctoral thesis mainly consists of a series of journal publications written by the author between 2015 and 2019. The doctoral thesis presents the results of ten years of research on informal settlements, with particular reference to Brazilian favelas. The research aimed to understand the social dynamics of the production of space in these...
doctoral thesis 2019
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author)
The capability approach as a normative approach to wellbeing focuses on the real freedoms of people to choose the life they want to live (Sen, 1999). This approach is regarded as an alternative to the needs-based approach of paternalistic welfare states in Europe and seems to match well with the ambitions of the European Commission ‘to show a...
journal article 2019
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