We’re in this together: Capacities and relationships to enable community resilience

This paper studies how residents in the neighbourhood Bospolder-Tussendijken (BoTu) have dealt with the COVID-19 restrictions. Prior to the pandemic, significant investments in community-building were made to increase resilience of individuals and communities in BoTu. This paper identifies the key assets BoTu residents had developed and actually...

Exemplary Urban Practitioners in Neighbourhood Renewal: Survival of the Fittest… and the Fitting

Often institutional solutions such as structures and organisations are seen as best practices in neighbourhood renewal. Using empirical case study data from the Netherlands and the UK, this paper demonstrates that there should be more attention for the role of individual urban practitioners. The relevance of this conclusion goes beyond the...

Close neighbours not distant friends: Neighbourhood focused housing associations: developments in England and the Netherlands