Cities need to become environmental sustainable, they have to reduce their ecological footprint by reducing waste, CO² emissions, use land sustainably and take care of the biodiversity. This research took The Hague as an example to investigate the possibilities for an urban agriculture initiative to …

Het doel van dit onderzoek is inzicht krijgen in hoe een openbare ruimte Cradle to Cradle in te richten is, zodat de onderzoeksresultaten uiteindelijk ook toe te passen zijn in het plan voor het Zandweteringpark te Deventer. Belangrijk aspect hierbij is inzicht krijgen in de levenscyclus van de meest …

The paper is centered on the issue of sustainable development and how cities approach in their urban planning the need to diminish the environmental impact of their economic activities and at the same time create quality of life for their citizens. The focus is specifically on linking economic growth …

This paper discusses and illustrates the ‘knowledge turn’ in urban policy across Europe. We identify four manifestations of it: 1) widespread efforts to lure knowledge workers; 2) a growing involvement of knowledge institutes in urban development and planning processes, 3) an explicit ‘knowledge based’ …

The explicit attention to sustainability and related concepts within the context of housing and urban development dates back to the 70’s of the last century. Since then, a lot of efforts have been done to define the concept and to bring it into practice. This involved efforts from national to local governments, …

Sub-national authorities [SNAs] have seen a great development in their influence in the European up from the 1980s, due to several processes at work in Europe. Multi-level governance [MLG], a theory derived from studies on European Integration, explains for instance the changing interaction between different …

In dit rapport wordt een ontwikkelingsplan voorgesteld voor een nieuwe uitbreidingswijk op de locatie Vechtpoort te Zwolle.