Projects

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This research aims to scrutinize the achievement of contemporary social housing programs in meeting the demand of the low-income households during the previous decade in Tehran, Iran; and to evaluate the impacts of these programs on the social and spatial order in the Tehran metropolitan area.

This research theoretically attends to the long-established debate about the nature of social housing (policy). Does it primarily accommodate ...