Publications

Both in the academic literature and in planning practice, the lack of integration of the disciplines of spatial planning and transport planning is a regularly recurring topic. Although attempts for more close collaboration have been made in research and in practice, the walls between the two fields seem to be quite solid, and real integration is still far away. For outsiders, this is difficult to understand, because the construction of transport ...

In April 2021, the Flemish government published their plans for the redevelopment of the R0, the larger ring road around Brussels. These plans include a social cost-benefit analysis (SCBA) and an environmental impact assessment report (EIA) in which the pros and cons of various plan alternatives are weighed against each other. The current paper is a critical analysis of both official documents, and assesses to what extent recent academic ...

Public space design processes are complex. Numerous preconditions and the involvement of stakeholders impede rapid decision making. Two-dimensional drawings remain the norm, although these are difficult for citizen stakeholders to understand. Public space designers rarely use 3D city models, infrastructure building information modeling, digital twins, or extended reality. Usually, 3D images (without animation) are only rendered after decision ...

In deze paper onderzoeken we hoe we het concept van ‘de 15 minutenstad’ kunnen verenigen met de doelstellingen van de ‘essentiële economie’. In het kort is de 15 minutenstad een pleidooi voor de herwaardering van de stadsbuurt als omgeving voor het dagelijks leven, waarbij essentiële voorzieningen voor iedereen binnen een straal van een kwartiertje wandelen of fietsen van de woning zouden moeten te vinden zijn. De essentiële economie (of ‘the ...

In April 2021, the regional government of Flanders published its plans for the renovation of the R0, the outer ring road around Brussels. The advantages and disadvantages of various plan alternatives were weighed up against each other in a social cost-benefit analysis (SCBA) and in an environmental impact assessment report (EIA). Despite the distinct political nature of the planning process, both the SCBA and the EIA are technical studies that ...

This paper examines the links between women's un/safety and their night-time mobilities in Brussels, Belgium and Recife, Brazil. While the significance of women's intersectional identities to the construction of fear and safety in urban space has been well documented in feminist urban geography, we argue that the lens of South-North comparison highlights specific ways in which local urban spaces are implicated in women's experiences of ...