Dealing with segregation: Improving livability in a segregated neighborhood

Problem of segregation emerged as a side effect of the industrial society and is still a threat to the contemporary city. In cities with diverse socio-economic and ethnic population mix (Rotterdam also falls into this category), segregation can deepen feeling of inequality between the disadvantaged and the prosperous. Segregation can represent...

Urban Regeneration in a Market Oriented Decision Environment: A Deeper Understanding of the Plan-, Decision making and Development Process in a Market Oriented Approach to Urban Regeneration and its Possible Physical and Socio-demographic implications in Dutch Deprived Neighbourhoods

The Dutch government aims since the 1990s at a more market oriented approach in urban planning with different implications in terms of who benefits and loses from interventions in vulnerable places such as neighbourhoods of empowerment (krachtwijken). This policy shift and way of thinking about urban planning implicated big changes in the...