Marketing the move to a poor neighborhood, researching consumer oriented housing development strategies in a Dutch urban renewal project

Urban renewal in Dutch deprived neighbourhoods often consists of demolishing cheaper rental dwellings to build more expensive dwellings for sale. This fits the planning consensus that poor neighbourhoods should become socioeconomically mixed areas, which has become central to Dutch urban renewal policy. However, due to the gradual diminution of...

'At home in the oasis' Sense of home and belonging in a middle class complex in a poor neighbourhood

(Work in progress) In many deprived urban neighbourhoods in the Netherlands strategies are deployed to attract higher income groups from outside the neighbourhood. However, various studies on social mixing conclude that these higher income households moving to poor urban areas often remain symbolically and practically disengaged from the wider...

'Exemplary urban practitioners'. Professionals who make the difference in urban renewal

In our research, a joint project with Tilburg University and commissioned by NICIS, a scientific knowledge centre for the Dutch cities, our aim was to investigate the qualities of selected practitioners in their working context, namely deprived urban districts. Our research will connect both in method (observation, interview and text analysis)...

Everyday life and social mixing in a changing neighbourhood