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...

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

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...

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...