Projects
INSIGHTS ON THE RECONFIGURATION OF FRAGILE INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONTS DEFINED BY CLIMATE CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DECLINE. The case of Coney Island Creek, New York. KU Leuven
At first sight, cities are accumulations of the tangible, the perceivable and the more static: buildings and streets, infrastructures and waterways, houses and schools and parks and supermarkets. But cities worldwide are simultaneously under constant pressure from an intangible discourse, from changes caused by shocks and stresses, which require them to respond and adapt in a resilient way. These shocks and stresses can result from ...
Flexible bus services for smart cities KU Leuven
Frustration is a common emotion among regular bus users, as bus transport tends to be slow, inefficient, and inflexible. Typically, a bus service (i.e., a set of bus routes and timetables) remains the same throughout the day, even when the demand for bus transport varies considerably over time. The main reason for this inflexibility was that, until very recently, public bus operators had no way of knowing the demand for transportation at any ...
Using virtual environments to gain a better understanding about how to create safe and attractive environments to walk or cycle for transport. Ghent University
Worldwide, strategies are being adopted to facilitate safe and sustainable transport solutions
encouraging active transport (i.e. walking/cycling to go from place to place). However, there is a
lack of evidence-based research about which specific street characteristics are important to
generate safe and attractive environments.
The primary aim of the project is to identify critical environmental ...
Female networking in early modern Aalst: 'hidden' social capital? University of Antwerp
Female networking in early modern Aalst: "hidden" social capital? University of Antwerp
Sabbatical Manuel Aalbers: KU Leuven
The sabbatical consists of two parts: In the first part, I will visit the Center for Urban Research at the Graduate Center of City University of New York (CUNY) where I will spend the first semester studying the neighborhood of Sunset Park in Brooklyn, NY. Sunset Park is a multi-ethnic neighborhood and has been so since the first houses were constructed a century ago. Currently, the neighborhood is home to large Mexican, Puerto Rican, and ...
Spatial analysis of urban mobility in sub-Saharan Africa KU Leuven
The proposed research deals with GIS-mapping and spatial analysis of space-time paths in an urban context. Cities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are expanding at unprecedented rates. Because of poor urbanplanning the expansion often occurs in the form of uncontrolled urban sprawl. These developments treat urban mobility, slow down the economic growth and lower the quality of life of many urban dwellers that are often strongly dependent on cheap ...
Flexible bus services for smart cities. University of Antwerp
Analysis of the disaster problematique from a political ecology perspective. KU Leuven
This doctoral research focuses on housing systems, especially on subsidized housing in the city of New Orleans post-Katrina. The aim is to give a societally embedded content to the notion of ‘social resilience’ based on a critical analysis of the diversity of pre-existent and emerging housing actors in the early and late recovery years in post-Katrina New Orleans. The study further aspires to propose recovery governance arrangements that are ...