Samenvatting

As up until this point, only little attention was paid to smaller suburbs within the revitalization process of bigger cities in times of the experience economy, awareness needs to be raised towards the need of revitalization of underused places within small suburbs to hinder people from moving away.

Thus this research analyzes the current situation of the marketplace in Eiserfeld and how it came to this situation, to ultimately provide recommendations for a possible placemaking concept which will revitalize the marketplace and increase the value of living quality for the suburb’s inhabitants.