Adapting to changing values: a framework for responsible decision-making in smart city development

Smart cities are proposed as a solution for problems of urbanization. Technologies associated with smart cities involve the monitoring of human activities and resulting data streams. These technologies affect certain public values, which may be subject to change depending on their sociotechnical development. This paper presents a method that...

Placemaking initiatives in challenged inner cities: Enhancement of urban retail areas

The current market conditions in the retail sector are rapidly changing. This makes it hard for retail areas to conform to consumer needs. This is especially the case for challenged inner cities that are trying to cope with these changes for the physical demand of retail space. This constant market change and current state of retail areas...

Input-Output Modeling for Smart City Development

While many national and local governments in the world are placing their bets on smart city development in countering challenges such as climate change, air pollution, and congestion, few know exactly how to develop them in practice. A high and rising number of publications has appeared addressing the concept of “smart city,” but not many...

Towards participation of existing businesses in the regeneration of industrial urban waterfronts: Recommendations on the participation process based on lessons learned from comparative cases in a Dutch context

As Dutch cities are increasingly looking to transform inner city industrial waterfronts into mixed-use neighbourhoods, the need for good participation processes with existing businesses increases. Although municipalities are aware of this, current participation processes often do not lead to the desired results. Therefore, a structured process...

Dealing with succes in the city centre: The impact of tourism on commercial amenities and corresponding policy response

A System Dynamics Exploration of Port-City Development: The Case of Tema, Ghana

Large-scale infrastructure projects such as ports can have a significant impact on the development of nearby cities. While economic benefits of the port spill over to other regions, often internationally operating firms, port-cities experience negative externalities like environmental and land use issues and traffic congestion. Traditional port...

Stimulating inner city transformations: The use of revolving funds in inner city development

Context – Within the Netherlands, an urgent mismatch between supply and demand in the residential sector results in adverse effects such as high house prices and reduced affordability. This mismatch is anticipated to grow further due to an increasing number of households (between 300,000 and 1,000,000 until 2040) and the many barriers in the...

Re-thinking the flows - Novi Sad, Serbia

This graduation thesis researches the benefits of using natural wastewater purification as a spatial development strategy on a, still unexplored, large scale. Novi Sad functions as a case study for the theoretical & design reflection of the application of large scale wastewater purification by using natural techniques. The city is located in the...

Inner-city development for middle income households

Cities within the most populated part of the Netherlands called the Randstad have to provide housing for a growing amount of households by building within the city. Because the housing market has changed from a supply driven market to a demand driven market, developers and municipalities cannot develop any type of housing they prefer but have to...

Training city developers, the Dutch way of education

Fundamental changes in economy, demography, climate and technology create tremendous challenges for city developers. City developers need to anticipate diverse transitions and increasing uncertainty associated with urban development processes but also need to balance societal forces. In order to equip urban managers with the most advanced but...

Sustainable Housing Production, thanks to the Economic Crises

A drastic effect of the economic crises 2009 is the cutback of housing production in the Netherlands, a down-hill trend from 80.000 to 45.000 a year. Unless the population of the country is stable there is an enormous need for new housing every year. Housing production is required because of vitalisation of cities. Housing production in the...