Aan de rand van het Groningse dorp Ten Boer ligt Woldwijk. Een nieuw buurtje met kleurrijke tiny houses, duurzame lemen buurthuizen en een biodiverse omgeving. Het is een voorbeeld van anders wonen in het buitengebied, maar wel met een onzekere toekomst.

The circular economy (CE) is heralded as reducing material use and emissions while providing more jobs and growth. We explored this narrative in a series of expert workshops, basing ourselves on theories, methods and findings from science fields such as global environmental input-output analysis, business …

Post-war urban neighbourhoods in industrialised countries have been shown to negatively affect the lifestyles of their residents due to their design. This study aims at developing an empirical procedure to select locations to be redesigned and the determinants of health at stake in these locations, with …

The electricity grid is reaching full capacity, and the effects of this grid congestion are becoming increasingly noticeable in the Netherlands. As a result, in some places it is difficult, if not impossible, to build new houses. What’s more, there are now almost 10,000 (!) businesses and organizations …

Gastcollege voor studenten en personeel van de Takoradi Technical University in Ghana.

Many neighborhoods dating from the 1970s, with corporation-owned terraced housing in open urban schemes, saw a round of renovation for the houses in the last decades, but left the supply of family homes intact. This housing stock doesn’t meet the needs of the elderly still living in them anymore, nor …

Few studies on residential mobility of ageing adults to rural areas have investigated which of them buy a home in a rural risk area. This paper examines which socio-demographic characteristics, housing attributes and earthquake circumstances influence the actual choice of mid-to-later life adults to …

The project for the former industrial HaCas-Verschuren site in Tilburg is a case study of a biobased transformation, which will turn a polluted environment into a paradise for living. The organic regeneration of the site requires a long-time span, which is also used for a long-term strategy to grow natural …

Het project ‘Putting life into Neolithic houses’ van Annelou van Gijn behandelt de huiselijke activiteiten en het levensonderhoud van mensen uit het Neolithicum in het kustgebied[1]. Het maalexperiment van dit scriptieonderzoek valt onder de experimenten die voor dit project worden uitgevoerd. Dit onderzoek …

In Vlissingen, the municipality wants to make a selected neighbourhood natural gas-free. In order to support this, they have been granted a subsidy. There are many important stakeholders in this project such as the housing corporation l’Escaut which owns most of the houses in the neighbourhood. All of …