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Doff, W. (author)Like other West European countries, the Netherlands are facing a growing uneasiness about its changing demographics. It is within this context that animated discussions concerning immigrant neighbourhoods dominate. The general opinion is that living in such neighbourhoods hinders the 'integration' of immigrants into Dutch society. This book...doctoral thesis 2010
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Van Eijk, G. (author)Does the neighbourhood in which people live matter for the resourcefulness of their personal network and thus for their opportunities in life? Do residents of a multi-ethnic ‘problem’ area maintain fewer relationships with fellow-residents compared to residents of a homogeneous problem-free neighbourhood? And do ‘diversity-seekers’ who choose to...doctoral thesis 2010
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Konings, J.W. (author)The thesis addresses the opportunities and conditions to increase the market share of intermodal barge transport in Northwest Europe. In particular, it focuses on strategies to improve the performances of the different links of the intermodal transport chain: the barge transport services, the transhipment at terminals and pre- and post-truck...doctoral thesis 2009
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Maat, K. (author)An academic and policy debate has been running in recent decades on whether and to what extent travel behaviour is influenced by the built environment. This dissertation addresses this influence on daily travel distance, chaining behaviour, car ownership, and car commuting. As cars are the dominant mode of transport, car travel received most...doctoral thesis 2009
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Nieboer, N. (author)Sinds de financiële verzelfstandiging van de Nederlandse sociale-huursector in de jaren 80 en 90 van de vorige eeuw hebben woningcorporaties een grotere beleidsverantwoordelijkheid gekregen wat betreft de ontwikkeling van hun woningbestand. Dit heeft geleid tot een verhoogde activiteit in het ontwikkelen van portefeuillebeleid en tot de opkomst...doctoral thesis 2009
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Van der Veen, M. (author)Large-scale urban development projects aim to create better places in underused or deteriorated areas. For their realisation, cooperation between planning authorities and market parties is indispensable. This book focuses on the development agreements that these parties close. It follows from the relational contract theory that, as the projects...doctoral thesis 2009
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Meesters, J. (author)The dwelling is a central setting in people’s everyday life. People use their dwelling and residential environment for a large variety of activities and purposes. This study systematically relates activities, settings and meanings to improve the insight into people-environment relations. This is called a meaning structure approach. Over 600...doctoral thesis 2009
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Van der Heijden, J.J. (author)It is often assumed that traditional regulatory regimes centered on governmental action will benefit from greater private sector involvement. And, under the catchy phrase "from government to governance" globally a wide variety of hybrid forms of governance has emerged. However, little empirical insight exists in the actual effects of such...doctoral thesis 2009
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Van Rij, H.E. (author)Dutch city dwellers take accessible green areas for granted. They might easily forget that considerable resources and regulations have been applied to protect and improve these areas. This dissertation considers the implications if, in line with the neo-liberalization of the state, this approach changes. A multi-theory approach based on Grounded...doctoral thesis 2008
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Coolen, H.C.C.H. (author)This study is about the meaning of dwelling features. It relates the research areas of housing preferences and the meaning of a dwelling with each other and with aspects of the means-end approach as applied in marketing research. It results in a conceptual and methodological framework for studying the meaning of preferences for dwelling features...doctoral thesis 2008
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Neuteboom, P. (author)Though time and depth of cycles differed from one European country to another, mortgage markets have grown in size, expanded in product variation and improved borrowers' accessibility to mortgage credit. However, this expanding range of mortgage opportunities significantly increases the search and information costs for a borrower, making it...doctoral thesis 2008
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Van Mossel, J.H. (author)For housing associations, maintenance is an opportunity for high quality interaction with their tenants, and thus an opportunity for effectively influencing the quality of service delivery to tenants. Dutch housing associations have a market share of about one third of the entire Dutch housing stock. They spent around 2.8 billion euros a year on...doctoral thesis 2008
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Penninga, F. (author)Current topographic products are usually limited to a real world representation in only two dimensions, extended with some additional point heights and contour lines. Many environmental issues require more precision than analysis on 2D models can offer. At the same time, vast amounts of 3D data are becoming available due to emerging new data...doctoral thesis 2008
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Waterhout, B. (author)This book questions whether and how European spatial planning is becoming institutionalised. Since the first steps towards creating spatial planning at the European level were taken some twenty years ago, it seems appropriate to look back at what has been achieved over this period. Notable achievements have been the adoption of the European...doctoral thesis 2008
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Beerepoot, W.M.C. (author)The passing by the European Parliament of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) in 2003 obliges all European member states to implement energy regulations for buildings based on the concept of energy performance by the year 2009 ultimately. Given the importance of the development of innovations in energy technology, and a...doctoral thesis 2007
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Van der Meer, A.J. (author)Gemeenten vormen een belangrijke pijler in de structuur van de overheid in Nederland. Hun invloed beperkt zich uiteraard tot het eigen grondgebied, en daarvoor is het nodig dat de gemeentegrenzen goed bekend zijn. Er bestaat in Nederland echter geen offici registratie van gemeentegrenzen. Het Kadaster heeft weliswaar deze grenzen op kaart staan,...doctoral thesis 2007
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Trip, J.J. (author)Urban quality is generally considered increasingly important for urban competitiveness. Nevertheless, large urban redevelopment schemes often fail to provide sufficient quality from a user's perspective. This study therefore investigates the role of urban quality in large-scale urban redevelopment, which is here elaborated in terms of Richard...doctoral thesis 2007