A growing group of cities feels responsible to feed urban populations sustainably. This has stimulated cities to embrace urban agriculture as an alternative in their food system orientation. However, while urban agriculture in all its diversity has arrived in the urban fabric and at planners’ desks, …

It is of utmost importance to collect organic waste from households as a separate waste stream. If collected separately, it could be used optimally to produce compost and biogas, it would not pollute fractions of materials that can be recovered from residual waste streams and it would not deteriorate …

Citizen participation in local renewable energy projects is often promoted as many suppose it to be a panacea for the difficulties that are involved in the energy transition process. Quite evidently, it is not; there is a wide variety of visions, ideologies and interests related to an ‘energy transition’. …

Participant empowerment is a foundational goal of selforganised homeless care. We aim to understand how a selforganised setting contributes to participants' empowerment. The data we analysed (56 interviews, both open and semistructured) were generated in a longitudinal participatory case study into Je …

Bewoners van kwetsbare wijken hebben behoefte aan toegankelijke buurtvoorzieningen. Mits bemenst met kundige professionals vormen ze paleizen waar ‘gewone mensen’ meer aan hebben dan aan iconische bouwwerken ontsproten aan het brein van befaamde architecten.

Stedelijke sociale ongelijkheid staat al jaren hoog op de stedelijke agenda, maar het is eigenlijk zelden of nooit het nummer 1 probleem geweest van Amsterdam. Andere kwesties zoals het samenleven tussen verschillende bewonersgroepen golden in de stedelijke arena vaak als urgenter. Het is ogenschijnlijk …