From acceptance to continuance: Understanding the influence of initial participation experience on residents' intentions to continue participation in neighborhood rehabilitation

In the context of increasing focus on social sustainability, neighborhood rehabilitation has emerged as a crucial component of global urban renewal initiatives. Distinct from most renewal paradigms that are usually one-offs, neighborhood rehabilitation is a long-term endeavor that requires ongoing resident participation to effectively address...

Underground space utilisation for urban renewal

The rapid increase in world population in the 21st century, with associated transport and environmental problems, has encouraged the development of urban underground spaces as an optimal solution in many occasions, including urban renewal schemes. This paper reviews literature on the utilisation of urban underground space for urban renewal to...

An analysis of urban renewal decision-making in China from the perspective of transaction costs theory: the case of Chongqing

In China, there is a growing number of urban renewal projects due to the rapid growth of the economy and urbanization. To meet the needs of urban development, urban renewal requires a sound decision-making approach involving various stakeholder groups. However, current urban renewal decision-making is criticized for poor efficiency, equity,...

The role of stakeholders and their participation network in decision-making of urban renewal in China: The case of Chongqing

Since the late 1970s, China's fast growth of economy and urbanization have driven large-scale urban renewal projects. To deal with complex urban problems, urban renewal requires integrated, coordinated and multifaceted strategies involving a wide range of stakeholders. A deeper understanding of the stakeholders in the decision-making process...

Álvaro Siza’s Negotiated Code: Housing with Citizens’ Participation in the Urban Renewal of The Hague in the 1980s

In the 1970s, the participation of citizens in processes of urban renewal was championed by several North-European municipalities as an attempt to re-connect housing policies with their social significance. The main goal was to bring together the city and its citizens, collective interests and individual aspirations. Citizens’ participation was...

Stakeholders’ Expectations in Urban Renewal Projects in China: A Key Step towards Sustainability

China’s fast growth of economy and urbanization have driven large-scale urban renewal projects, thus triggering a wide spectrum of unsustainable problems. Little research has systematically explored the stakeholders’ expectations in urban renewal projects in China. A deeper understanding of the divergent interests and expectations of the key...

Divided Cities: Increasing Socio-Spatial Polarization within Large Cities in the Netherlands (discussion paper)

There is increasing evidence that our societies are polarizing. Most studies focus on labour market and educational outcomes and show a socioeconomic polarization of the bottom and top ends of the population distribution. Processes of social polarization have a spatial dimension which should be visible in the changing mosaic of neighbourhoods in...

Lessons Learned from the Largest Tenure Mix Operation in the World: Right to Buy in the United Kingdom

In the last few decades, urban renewal policies have taken firm root in many Western European countries. Underlying these renewal policies is a strong belief in negative neighborhood effects of living in poverty concentration areas, often neighborhoods with a large share of social housing. In Europe, great importance is attached to creating a...

The renewal of what was tomorrow's idealistic city: Amsterdam's Bijlmermeer high-rise

One of the finest and best-known examples of a CIAM-planned area is the Bijlmermeer in Amsterdam, one of Europe’s leading examples of high-rise estates. Over the years, the Bijlmermeer has been a shining example of the high expectations and ideas of CIAM-planning, the disappointment, problems and stigma of numerous improvement trials and...

Stadterneuerung in Bijlmermeer und die Westlichen Gartenstadte in Amsterdam

ach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurden viele Siedlungen als Gartenstadte entsprechend den Ideen der modernen Architekturkonzipiert. Amsterdam ist das herausragende Beispiel in denNiederlanden. Die Kommune plante ausgedehnte Wohnviertelin grosser Zahl, um die steigende Nachfrage zu befriedigen.In den 5Oer und 60er Jahren entstanden die "Westlichen...

Integrierte Umstrukturierung einer Großsiedlung ; das Stadtumbauprogramm für Amsterdam-Bijlmermeer

Amsterdam-Bijlmermeer ist die modernste, idealistischste und meist diskutierte Siedlung der Niederlande. Sie ist außerdem eine der bekanntesten Großsiedlungen Europas. Aber Bijlmermeer wird schon bald nicht mehr Bijlmermeer sein. Die Siedlung wird baulich, sozial und ökonomisch umfassend erneuert. Im Jahr 2010 wird die Hälfte der wabenförmigen...

The integrated renewal of Amsterdam’s Bijlmermeer high-rise

In recent years, there has been a growing interest all over the world in improving the large housing estates of the 1960s and 1970s. Highrise estates are associated with problematic living conditions, deprived areas, isolated locations, a poor population, a negative image, social isolation, pollution and crime. In short: they are not the most...

Towards sustainable urban renewal in the Netherlands

Cities and the neighbourhoods within are dynamic and change continuously. Vital neighbourhoods can cope with changing circumstances like outdated use, changing household compositions, consumer preferences and fashions, political turnovers, global trends and economic cycles. Sustainable areas are vital and flexible to changes. Sustainable urban...

Deadlocks and breakthroughs in urban renewal: A network analysis in Amsterdam

Urban renewal in the Netherlands has become a matter of ‘networking’. Housing associations, Dutch social landlords, became financially independent in the 1990s and have a responsibility in urban renewal. It is a joint responsibility in which local authority, social landlord and tenants are dependent on each other. This situation is rather new...

Energy efficiency and low-carbon technologies in urban renewal

Large social housing estates: From stigma to demolition?

It is curious that the most frequently reviewed and well thought-out large housing estates are now the areas with the worst image. Image is an important factor of a neighbourhood’s popularity, affecting its position in the local or regional neighbourhood hierarchy. Many studies and reports about problematic areas indicate that a negative image,...

Renewing stigmatised estates in the Netherlands: A framework for image renewal strategies

Like in so many other European countries, the large housing estates of the post-World War II generation in the Netherlands did not fulfil the great and often Utopian expectations. Nowadays they are confronted with the effects of a negative image, a stigma. Images differ according to the persons asked for an opinion. Internal images, elicited...