Postdoc at TU Delft working on the construction and asset activities of public organizations. I am interested in a broad array of research topics, including housing, urban politics, property rights, and land & housing policy, Supervisors: Willem Salet and Stan Majoor Address: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
This paper investigates the aspirations and strategies of self-builders of owner-occupied homes i... more This paper investigates the aspirations and strategies of self-builders of owner-occupied homes in a facilitated self-build scheme. It draws on a qualitative case-study of the Homeruskwartier in Almere, the Netherlands, one the largest assisted self-build schemes in present-day Europe, which caters to lower- and middle-income households. The study problematizes the notion that self-building necessarily leads to the pursuit of use values over exchange values. This questions the positive benefits attributed to self-building. The aspirations of self-builders are not only framed by social and material conditions, but are also being reframed in the action process. The paper stresses the contingent nature of aspirations and strategies and emphasizes the experimental nature of the self-building process.
This paper investigates the relationship between self-build housing and the wider planning and ho... more This paper investigates the relationship between self-build housing and the wider planning and housing regime. Although there is growing policy and academic attention to self-build housing, there is a lack of understanding of the institutional and regulatory conditions shaping the prospects of such housing provision. This paper takes the case of The Netherlands and scrutinizes how institutional dynamics over time have made lower and middle residents dependent on densely organized consortia of municipalities, housing associations and developers. These norms of land development appear to be at odds with the logic of self-building. Through exploring evidence in a pilot study of a municipal self-building scheme in Almere, the authors suggest that making self-building the cornerstone of a resident-led land development strategy, also for low-and middle-incomes, implies a reconfiguration of the actors' positions in housing provision. This entails a commissioning role for residents in the institutional domain of social and commercial developers.
In environmental planning practice, political parties tend to be perceived as marginal, unimporta... more In environmental planning practice, political parties tend to be perceived as marginal, unimportant or even dysfunctional. Critical thought instead urges us to look at how parties depoliticize and instrumentally manipulate policies of urban sustainability. Although urban politicians are increasingly important in the formulation of strong sustainable policies, there is little research that explicitly and empirically looks at the role of elected officials in shaping policies for urban sustainability. This paper scrutinizes the role of parties in formulating urban agendas of sustainable development and in triggering projects of eco-district development in Amsterdam and Stockholm. It does so in order to show how parties play a dialectic role: they mobilize voters through differentiated agendas, but also act as power holders and consensus builders in the depoliticization of sustainable urban intervention. We combine a postpolitical framework and classic work on electoral politics to show how this dynamic occurs in practice. We conclude that environmental planning research needs to further investigate political parties to understand how sustainability policies are (or are not) enacted in cities.
This paper investigates the aspirations and strategies of self-builders of owner-occupied homes i... more This paper investigates the aspirations and strategies of self-builders of owner-occupied homes in a facilitated self-build scheme. It draws on a qualitative case-study of the Homeruskwartier in Almere, the Netherlands, one the largest assisted self-build schemes in present-day Europe, which caters to lower- and middle-income households. The study problematizes the notion that self-building necessarily leads to the pursuit of use values over exchange values. This questions the positive benefits attributed to self-building. The aspirations of self-builders are not only framed by social and material conditions, but are also being reframed in the action process. The paper stresses the contingent nature of aspirations and strategies and emphasizes the experimental nature of the self-building process.
This paper investigates the relationship between self-build housing and the wider planning and ho... more This paper investigates the relationship between self-build housing and the wider planning and housing regime. Although there is growing policy and academic attention to self-build housing, there is a lack of understanding of the institutional and regulatory conditions shaping the prospects of such housing provision. This paper takes the case of The Netherlands and scrutinizes how institutional dynamics over time have made lower and middle residents dependent on densely organized consortia of municipalities, housing associations and developers. These norms of land development appear to be at odds with the logic of self-building. Through exploring evidence in a pilot study of a municipal self-building scheme in Almere, the authors suggest that making self-building the cornerstone of a resident-led land development strategy, also for low-and middle-incomes, implies a reconfiguration of the actors' positions in housing provision. This entails a commissioning role for residents in the institutional domain of social and commercial developers.
In environmental planning practice, political parties tend to be perceived as marginal, unimporta... more In environmental planning practice, political parties tend to be perceived as marginal, unimportant or even dysfunctional. Critical thought instead urges us to look at how parties depoliticize and instrumentally manipulate policies of urban sustainability. Although urban politicians are increasingly important in the formulation of strong sustainable policies, there is little research that explicitly and empirically looks at the role of elected officials in shaping policies for urban sustainability. This paper scrutinizes the role of parties in formulating urban agendas of sustainable development and in triggering projects of eco-district development in Amsterdam and Stockholm. It does so in order to show how parties play a dialectic role: they mobilize voters through differentiated agendas, but also act as power holders and consensus builders in the depoliticization of sustainable urban intervention. We combine a postpolitical framework and classic work on electoral politics to show how this dynamic occurs in practice. We conclude that environmental planning research needs to further investigate political parties to understand how sustainability policies are (or are not) enacted in cities.
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