Transnational learning in Creative City Challenge

Report written in the context of the INTERREG IVB project Creative City Challenge. Based on a series of international expert meetings the report discusses various themes in relation to creative city policy, and analyses the process of transnational learning itself.

Developing an Indicator System for Monitoring, Analyzing, and Assessing Airport Sustainability

This paper deals with developing an indicator system for monitoring, analyzing, and assessing sustainability of airports. The sustainability implies simultaneous increasing of the overall socialeconomic benefits and increasing at a slower rate, stagnating, and/or diminishing of the negative impacts of these airports during the specified medium-...

Replacement or reuse? The choice between demolition and life cycle extension from a sustainable viewpoint

What is better: renovation or new construction? Following the plenary debate on the ENHR 2007 conference in Rotterdam we continued our search for the answer to this question. The choice between reuse and replacement of existing buildings is a vital but very difficult one, involving a wide range of aspects and affecting contradictory and often...

Asset management strategies and sustainability in Dutch social housing

With 35% of the total housing stock in the Netherlands (Ministry of VROM, 2004), the social rented sector plays an important role in Dutch housing, and its management can be of great importance to the success or failure of sustainability programs. Although sustainable building has been high on the national political agenda, and although this was...

Introduction to sustainable urban renewal: CO2 reduction and the use of performance agreements: experience from the Netherlands

The search for the most eco-efficient strategies for sustainable housing construction; Dutch lessons