Reflectie op kernvragen Blok grondprijzen voor tijdelijke commissie Huizenprijzen

Governance and planning: Relationship between the national spatial data communities and spatial planning communities

Adapting land administration to the institutional framework of customary tenure: The case of peri-urban Ghana

Adapting land administration to the institutional framework of customary tenure: The case of peri-urban Ghana

Some personal experience and lessons with TEMPUS projects

Entrepreneurial governance: Challenges of large-scale property-led urban regeneration projects

Large-scale urban regeneration projects become highly complex as they involve multiple actors with different expectations. In general, the implementation of such projects entails building governance regimes at the city or regional level, but this often means forging partnerships between public and private actors to serve as policy instruments....

First experiences with a high-resolution imagery-based adjudication approach in Ethiopia

Great progress has been made with rural land certification in Ethiopia. This process, however, has been mainly confined to the first phase certificates – those without a georeference. In 2008, a team conducted a simple field test using high resolution imagery. On-site tests were performed to determine if Quickbird satellite imagery could be used...

Diversity matters: Immigrant entrepreneurship and contribution of different forms of social integration in economic performance of cities

While it is quite common in studies of diversity to focus on its negative aspects, this paper specifically aims to emphasize the contribution of immigrants to the urban economic performance. By exploring different kinds of social integration, this paper discusses how immigrant groups can be important agents of urban economic growth and...

The provision of land for social housing in large urbanized areas in developing countries: The case of Istanbul

A large part of the population has no access to proper housing. This situation is most severe in large growing metropolises in the developing world, such as Istanbul, Turkey, where a third of the population is living in squatter housing. Typically there is a is a dual structure of both legal and illegal land development, where the legal sector...

Narrating national geo information infrastructures: Balancing infrastructures and innovation

This paper examines narratives relating to the development of National Geo Information Infrastructures (NGII) in eth-nographic research on a Dutch NGII project which was monitored throughout its course. We used an approach which focuses on narratives concerning the environment, groups and practice to elicit sense-making processes. We assert that...

Markt en overheid: Hoe zit het nu eigenlijk?

Het afgelopen decennium is discussie ontstaan over in hoeverre de overheid haar geo-informatie mag of kan vermarkten. De commercialiseringdiscussie gaat om de vraag wanneer de overheid de markt mag betreden en aan welke spelregels zij zich dan moet houden. Een overheid verricht in principe een marktactiviteit als zij goederen of diensten, al dan...

First experiences with High Resolution Imagery Based Adjudication Approach for Social Tenure Domain Model in Ethiopia

Since the start of the 21st century, great progress has been made with rural land certification in Ethiopia. This process, however, has been mainly confined to the so called first phase certificates. These certificates do identify the land holding households (with name etc. and photographs), but limit the geo-referencing to indicating the size ...

Grond in beweging: Effectiviteit en efficiëntie van het Enschedese actieve grondbeleid

Title or deeds registration: Is the 'better' the enemy of the 'good'

Hergebruikregeling Wob overbodig?

Geologie des Pelmo-Gebietes in den Dolomiten von Cadore