Dementia in the Built Environment

Neighbourhood histories and educational attainment: The role of accumulation, duration, timing and sequencing of exposure to poverty

Studies of neighbourhood effects increasingly research the neighbourhood histories of individuals. It is difficult to compare the outcomes of these studies as they all use different datasets, conceptualisations and operationalisations of neighbourhood characteristics and outcome variables. This paper contributes to the literature by studying...

Local Community Centre as Utilitarian, Governing and Social Space: The Case of New Belgrade CMZ

The paper studies local community centres (Serbian: centar mesne zajednice - CMZ) of post-war mass housing neighbourhoods in New Belgrade. Those were designed and built in 1970s as multifunctional centres with facilities and programmes complementary to the housing blocks: socio-cultural, commercial (grocery stores), daily services (post...

Mapping urban diversity: Vernacular, modernist and contemporary Matera

This thesis takes the Southern Italian city of Matera as a case study to analyse the role urban diversity plays in the growth of cities. The analysis focuses on tracking changes in intensity and distribution of urban diversity in representative moments of Matera’s development, from the expansion of the vernacular neighbourhood of the Sassi with...

Domestication Will Shape Future Public Spaces: A Report from Rotterdam

This commentary aims to provide a window on the future by studying actions, taken to control the spreading of the corona virus, while obviously affecting public space over a year. What has been the effects on public space directly linked to these actions during the pandemic; what values play a role, and what can we expect for the future? We have...

Transition to sustainable heating at neighbourhood level: Research in technical, environmental and financial feasibility and development of a process guide for municipalities

Three Generations of Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Context

The literature on intergenerational contextual mobility has shown that neighbourhood status is partly "inherited" from parents to children where children who spend their childhood in deprived neighbourhoods are more likely to live in such neighbourhoods also as adults. It has been suggested that such transmission of neighbourhood status also is...

Creating an effective peer-to-peer alarm network in social housing neighbourhoods for Homies.

Project background<br/>Insurance company Achmea and consulting and IT services company Accenture commenced a collaboration in the fall of 2015 in an attempt to address burglary damages in social housing apartments. This project was called ‘Homies’. In order to achieve their goal of reducing burglary costs, the Homies team created a concept for...

The distribution system operator as flexibility manager of distributed energy resources: A spreadsheet based simulation study on the case of the Netherlands

Within the Netherlands, house owners set up projects in which all houses within a neighbourhood are collectively renovated and equipped with distributed energy resources (DERs) at the same time. These projects are called ‘neighbourhood distributed energy resource projects’ (NDPs). As some of the equipped DERs electrify much of the heating...

New perspectives on ethnic segregation over time and space: A domains approach

Ethnic segregation has most often been studied at the place of residence, segregation being defined on the basis of the relative presence of different groups within city neighbourhoods. It is increasingly recognized, however, that segregation occurs in different ways in different domains (such as the workplace, leisure, social media, etc.), the...

Living with dementia: An elderly home in the centre of Rotterdam

Elderly suffering from dementia go through a difficult and confusing time from the moment they start to show symptoms of dementia. During this time, the process of dementia can only be slowed down. It has the looks of it that there isn’t anything more that can be done, but to make them feel as comfortable as possible for the time being. Although...

Neighbourhood ethnic mix and the formation of mixed-ethnic unions in Britain: A longitudinal analysis

Although developed societies are becoming increasingly ethnically diverse, relatively little research has been conducted on geographies of mixed-ethnic unions (married or cohabiting). There is some recent evidence from the US that mixed-ethnic couples are more likely to be found in mixed-ethnic neighbourhoods, but this research is based on cross...

Hybrid zones the ideal place for contact: Design for communication in streets with no a hybrid zone

Contact between neighbours is a logical starting point for making a neighbourhood a pleasant place to live. A scientific research has shown that the area in streets where most contact between neighbours takes place is the hybrid zone. Hybrid zones are the zones between one’s private space (ones house) and the public space (the street); things...

Design for Social Impact in the Afrikaanderwijk - welding your way into neighbourhood attachment

This graduation project is aimed at improving the liveability of the Afrikaanderwijk by using the Design for Social Impact [DSI] method. Within the Netherlands, there is a large number of post war suburbs that face an accumulation of problems such as a high unemployment rate, neglected housing facilities, crime and a lack of social networks or...

Unequal networks: Spatial segregation, relationships and inequality in the city

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...

Spatial-social solutions for Dutch post war neighbourhoods

A research for the effects of interventions in Dutch post war neighbourhoods from a physical as well as a social and economic point of view. The The Hague neighbourhood Mariahoeve is used as a case to make a design for improvement.

When reputation and residential satisfaction diverge

Workshop 1. Session 1.3: (Counter)acting stigma. Abstract: In this paper an agent-based model for the choice of residential locations is presented, which is based upon Social Network Analysis. The model explains how the various reputations of a neighbourhood depend upon insiders’ and outsiders’ assessments of the area. For outsiders, reputations...

When reputation and residential satisfaction diverge