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Towards a framework for urban landscape co-design
Linking the participation ladder and the design cycle
With the increasing social and ecological pressures on urban settlements, re-thinking how we produce them becomes a growing concern. Due to the diversity of actors across sectors and backgrounds involved in such design processes, collaboration is of utmost importance. Co-design c
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Urban mining and buildings
A review of possibilities and limitations
In recent years there has been growing interest in urban mining in buildings from various environmental and economic perspectives. Materials hidden in buildings are attractive alternatives to raw ones and building activities are responsible for a large share of urban waste in man
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Gentrification and the Origin and Destination of Movers
A Systematic Review
Gentrification is a process whereby neighbourhoods and their socio-economic composition upgrade through residential moves and social mobility. Relatively little attention has been paid to the spatial aspect of gentrification-induced residential moves. This systematic literature r
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Unravelling Decision-Making Processes on Location Choices for High-Speed Railway Stations in China
A Comparison of Shenzhen, Lanzhou and Jingmen
Most High-Speed Railway (HSR) station areas in China can be found at the urban periphery or in suburban areas, a phenomenon that has often been criticised. While debate about the influence these location choices have on the economic and sustainable development of cities rages on,
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Experimenting with collaboration in the Smart City
Legal and governance structures of Urban Living Labs
Urban Living Labs (ULLs) have been implemented in many cities, but their organizational and legal structure has not often been analyzed. ULLs aim to provide a space for different parties to research, develop, and test solutions to urban problems whilst engaging with local communi
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Capitalizing on the “Public Turn”
New Possibilities for Citizens and Civil Servants in Smart City- Making
There is a sharp contrast between the public value discourse that typifies smart city-making on the one hand and its democratic deficit on the other. In this article we explore this contrast in more detail and assess that the paradigm and practices of networked government, which
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When a Fire Starts to Burn
The Relation Between an (Inter)nationally Oriented Incinerator Capacity and the Port Cities’ Local Circular Ambitions
This paper assesses the potential of the circular economy (CE) policy ambitions of the port cities of Ghent (Belgium) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Both Ghent and Amsterdam are municipalities that potentially lend themselves ideally to set up a more local-oriented circular (re
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How Co-design Processes Improve Public Space Resilience:
Lessons From Two Urban Parks in the Atacama Desert
With the social, ecological and sanitary pressures on urban settlements
and the public sector being unable to successfully provide such answers
alone, co-design can play a crucial role towards urban transformations
and resilient public spaces. We understand co-design as a process
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The process of urban systems integration
An integrative approach towards the institutional process of systems integration in urban area development
Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. This makes them centres of resource consumption and waste production. Sustainable development is seen as an opportunity to respond to the consequences of urbanisation and climate change. In recent years the concepts
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From idea to reality
A study on the stimulation of citizen initiatives for urban development by using online platforms
With smart governance, citizen participation for the delivery of services and the transformation of society to a participation society, there is an increased focus of governments on the stimulation of citizen initiatives and the usage of their knowledge for the delivery of servic
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Municipal Circular Land Tenders
How do they affect real estate developers?
Many countries have committed themselves to the target for a circular economy (CE) in 2050. In this transition, the construction sector is important. One of the tools governments can use to stimulate circular building, is by incorporating circular tender criteria in land tenderin
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Choosing your place
Making a user journey to illuminate the possibilities of smart tools to support new users of the campus in choosing their workplace
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to research the potential of smart tools in the increasingly dynamic used campus workplace from a user perspective, to provide the campus manager with information on both the smart tool product and the smart tool implementation process.
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The effects of governance on liveability in shrinking cities and regions
An exploratory case study of Dordrecht, Leeuwarden, and Zwolle
An exploratory case study research into possible forms of governance in shrinking urban areas.
Development towards circular urban areas, a proposal for a hybrid conceptual framework
A casestudy at the Binckhorst, The Hague
Cities today account for approximately 75% of the global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. The process of urbanization increases emissions and places an increasing pressure on resources and livability in urban areas. While challenged with the effects of climate change, governments
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Analying the use and the effects of transportation for real estate with Big Open Linked Data
A case study on the residential market in Amsterdam
This report presents my graduation research toward a BOLD-driven method which uses the triangle relationship between the project developer, transportation and Big Open Linked Data in the process of monitoring and implementing ambitions for residential project developments. The re
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Circular Demolition and Component Reuse in Construction
The Current Building Stock as a Source of Components for New Buildings
Circular building has been increasing in popularity over several years. The idea being that we should not use resources only once and then discard them, but continue using them in new products. The construction industry has responded to this by designing 'circular' buildings that
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Big Data Analytics and Decision Making
Exploring the Possibilities of Big Data Standards to enhance the Management of Urban Development and Construction Projects in the Built Environment
Global trends such as digitalization and the Internet of Things have influenced cities and the lives of residents deeply in recent years. In this digital age, cities turn toward SMART solutions, where they ultimately hope to find new innovative ways of accommodating their citizen
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City-regions for cultural nomads
Leveraging transitory rural-urban networks in Nairobi's peripheries through regional agroecological systems; A guide to city-region planning in Kenya
Projected rapid urbanization in African cities is posed to put immense pressure on existing neoliberal urban planning strategies as practised in primary cities and metropolitan regions across Sub-Saharan Africa. This is despite the visible shortcomings of these neoliberal urban d
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Time for timber
A research on policy instruments for a successful timber transition in the Metropole region of Amsterdam
The Paris Agreement set goals to minimize global warming by reducing CO2 emissions. In the Netherlands, the Paris Agreement is translated into policies that aim for circularity and sustainability at different governmental levels. These policies are directed at the sustainability
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Regionale gebiedsontwikkeling
De invloed van de provincie op ruimtelijke planning in tussenstedelijke gebieden
Nationale opgaven zoals het woningbouwbeleid, de energietransitie en klimaatadaptatie zijn vraagstukken die door regionale instanties concreet moeten worden gemaakt in samenhang met de vraagstukken van de regio zelf. De regio, het niveau tussen de gemeenten en de provincie, heeft
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