Onderzoek naar vrijwilligerswerk door asielzoekers en statushouders die in asielzoekerscentra ver... more Onderzoek naar vrijwilligerswerk door asielzoekers en statushouders die in asielzoekerscentra verblijven in de periode december 2016 tot en met december 2017.
Shelter is a basic human need for which financial means are required. Poorer sections of society ... more Shelter is a basic human need for which financial means are required. Poorer sections of society face difficulties in accessing and coping with conventional mortgage finance and are better assisted with housing microfinance. This enables the poor, especially in ‘developing’ countries to build their shelter in an incremental way. To meet this demand, providers of housing microfinance have many possibilities for expanding their business. Innovations, for example, are found in business linkages of microfinance institutions and building material suppliers, and community-based financial systems. However, there are also bottlenecks concerning microfinance lenders, the financial sector, capital market, and shelter sector.
ABSTRACT Although segregation is a worldwide phenomenon, this paper will focus mainly on Latin Am... more ABSTRACT Although segregation is a worldwide phenomenon, this paper will focus mainly on Latin American urban areas. We will discuss approaches e rooted in e.g. geography, economics, sociology, and anthropology for measuring, analysing and describing segregation patterns at places of residence, workplaces, recreation and shopping areas, in political participation and access to justice, and others. In doing so, we will also address different quantitative and qualitative theoretical approximations and methods of research to unpack these different segregation manifestations. We will illustrate this by giving examples of different kinds of socio-cultural, economic, financial, political and judicial inclusion and exclusion. In short, this paper provides an overview of different kinds and types of segregation and their mutual relationships, ranging from reciprocal strengthening to surprising combinations to clear-cut contradictions, to contestations.
Onderzoek naar vrijwilligerswerk door asielzoekers en statushouders die in asielzoekerscentra ver... more Onderzoek naar vrijwilligerswerk door asielzoekers en statushouders die in asielzoekerscentra verblijven in de periode december 2016 tot en met december 2017.
Shelter is a basic human need for which financial means are required. Poorer sections of society ... more Shelter is a basic human need for which financial means are required. Poorer sections of society face difficulties in accessing and coping with conventional mortgage finance and are better assisted with housing microfinance. This enables the poor, especially in ‘developing’ countries to build their shelter in an incremental way. To meet this demand, providers of housing microfinance have many possibilities for expanding their business. Innovations, for example, are found in business linkages of microfinance institutions and building material suppliers, and community-based financial systems. However, there are also bottlenecks concerning microfinance lenders, the financial sector, capital market, and shelter sector.
ABSTRACT Although segregation is a worldwide phenomenon, this paper will focus mainly on Latin Am... more ABSTRACT Although segregation is a worldwide phenomenon, this paper will focus mainly on Latin American urban areas. We will discuss approaches e rooted in e.g. geography, economics, sociology, and anthropology for measuring, analysing and describing segregation patterns at places of residence, workplaces, recreation and shopping areas, in political participation and access to justice, and others. In doing so, we will also address different quantitative and qualitative theoretical approximations and methods of research to unpack these different segregation manifestations. We will illustrate this by giving examples of different kinds of socio-cultural, economic, financial, political and judicial inclusion and exclusion. In short, this paper provides an overview of different kinds and types of segregation and their mutual relationships, ranging from reciprocal strengthening to surprising combinations to clear-cut contradictions, to contestations.
Enabling Urban Alternatives: Crises, Contestation, and Cooperation (ed. Fisker, J.K., Chiappini, L., Pugalis, L., Bruzzese, A.) , 2019
With a point of departure in a Bourdieusian framework, the chapter studies dynamics between parti... more With a point of departure in a Bourdieusian framework, the chapter studies dynamics between participatory policymaking and the citizenry’s political agency in a gentrifying neighborhood in Amsterdam East. The analysis shows that gentrifiers, through their community building efforts and resourcefulness, are capable of creating political opportunities for the citizenry to become co-producers in the field of local policy implementation; this enabled social mobility and a creation of a civic democratic culture. At the same time, this alternative field of participation is not immune to reproducing effects related to gentrification and voluntarism.
This edited book addresses the question of whether increasing spatial mobilities (residential, wo... more This edited book addresses the question of whether increasing spatial mobilities (residential, work and leisure) mean that neighbourhoods as places are less significant for people's sense of belonging. The chapters are based on neighbourhood case studies drawn from original research undertaken in the cities and suburbs of Europe, North America and Africa. It will appeal to scholars and students in urban studies, sociology, geography, social anthropology and planning.
This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to social... more This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to social rental housing. Social housing estates – as developed either by governments (public housing) or not-for-profit agencies – became a prominent feature of the 20th century urban landscape in Northern European cities, but also in North America and Australia. Many estates were built as part of earlier urban renewal, ‘slum clearance’ programs especially in the post-World War 2 heyday of the Keynesian welfare state. During the last three decades, however, Western governments have launched high-profile ‘new urban renewal’ programs whose aim has been to change the image and status of social housing estates away from being zones of concentrated poverty, crime and other social problems. This latest phase of urban renewal – often called ‘regeneration’ – has involved widespread demolition of social housing estates and their replacement with mixed-tenure housing developments in which poverty deconcentration, reduced territorial stigmatization, and social mixing of poor tenants and wealthy homeowners are explicit policy goals.
Academic critical urbanists, as well as housing activists, have however queried this dominant policy narrative regarding contemporary urban renewal, preferring instead to regard it as a key part of neoliberal urban restructuring and state-led gentrification which generate new socio-spatial inequalities and insecurities through displacement and exclusion processes. This book examines this debate through original, in-depth case study research on the processes and impacts of urban renewal on social housing in European, U.S. and Australian cities. The book also looks beyond the Western urban heartlands of social housing to consider how renewal is occurring, and with what effects, in countries with historically limited social housing sectors such as Japan, Chile, Turkey and South Africa.
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Academic critical urbanists, as well as housing activists, have however queried this dominant policy narrative regarding contemporary urban renewal, preferring instead to regard it as a key part of neoliberal urban restructuring and state-led gentrification which generate new socio-spatial inequalities and insecurities through displacement and exclusion processes. This book examines this debate through original, in-depth case study research on the processes and impacts of urban renewal on social housing in European, U.S. and Australian cities. The book also looks beyond the Western urban heartlands of social housing to consider how renewal is occurring, and with what effects, in countries with historically limited social housing sectors such as Japan, Chile, Turkey and South Africa.