Background and objectives Before the Covid-19 pandemic, important social studies already indicated the severe negative feedback associated with high-rise developments. During the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens were confronted with their neighbourhoods’ insufficient restorative capacity to maintain their …

Presentatie naar aanleiding van mijn verblijf als visiting scholar bij de NTNU in Trondheim. Het thema is de positie van lokale energie in Noorwegen en mijn bezoeken aan diverse Zero Emission Neighbourhoods.

Koen Kok, Full professor Electrical Engineering, Electrical Energy Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology heeft een presentatie verzorgd over Intelligente Systemen voor de Energietransitie: AI, het (lokale) Elektriciteitssysteem en Energiesysteemintegratie, en geeft inzicht in het Intelligent Energy …

The current COVID-19 pandemic confines people to their homes, disrupting the fragile social fabric of deprived neighbourhoods and citizen’s participation options. In deprived neighbourhoods, community engagement is central in building community resilience, an important resource for health and a prerequisite …

In dit onderzoek hebben we relevante sociale factoren voor de wijk Boven Pekela Groningen in kaart gebracht. Dit hebben we gedaan aan de hand van een vragenlijst en aanvullend zijn er semigestructureerd interviews gehouden. Dit onderzoek vormt één van de cases in een breder project waarin meerdere cases …

De nieuwe herindelingsgemeente Midden-Groningen wil leefbaarheids- en welzijnsproblemen binnen dorpen, buurten en wijken stevig aanpakken. Vergeleken met elders in Nederland heerst er onder de inwoners van de gemeente gemiddeld meer armoede en werkloosheid en is er sprake van een lagere levensverwachting …

The coronavirus pandemic highlighted the vital role urban areas play in supporting citizens’ health and well-being (Ribeiro et al., 2021). In times of (personal) vulnerability, citizens depend on their neighbourhood for performing daily physical activities to restore their mental state, but public spaces …

This dissertation focuses on how supportive neighbourhood structures for children and their families can be fostered. Supportive structures can positively influence social support for parents, and have positive outcomes, such as increased social competences, for children. Since the 90s there has been …

This leaflet showcases a design framework for buildingcommunity resilience in urban neighbourhoods. Atits core, the framework challenges designers andother professionals to not only consider resilience inhuman communities, but also in other-than-humancommunities, including plants and animals. Theframework …

In this study the Vignettes Parenting Interactions in the Neighbourhood (V-PIN) was validated. These vignettes can be used to gain insight into and reflect on interactions in the neighbourhood between parents and nonparental adults. A correlational design (N = 134) was used to assess the reliability …