Projects
Urban renewal as social practice: social work as democratic practice in urban planning AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
‘Ecologizing’ Urban Planning. The sustainable city in between government and activism (1989 – 2019) KU Leuven
Forced Migration as Urban Development: The Emergence of Formal and Informal Planning Approaches for the Arrival and Settlement of Refugees Vrije Universiteit Brussel
reduced to discussions about emergency measures, such as the
construction of asylum camps, rather than seeing refugees as longterm community members. Largely neglected by scholars, some
cities have nevertheless recognized the role of urban planning in
providing durable solutions for housing, neighborhood development,
and immigrant integration. This ...
How mice give birth to mountains - the impact of constituency service on planning policy and urban sprawl KU Leuven
It happens regularly that the Flemish government approves legislation that undermines its own ambitious strategic planning policy vision. Through constituency service - an informal approach of politicians to help individual citizens - building project needs of individual land owners seem to scale up to generic changes in the Flemish planning legislation. This project aims to expose this underlying process through in-depth interviews with ...
How the mouse gave birth to a mountain - the impact of political service on planning policy and urban sprawl KU Leuven
Active cities: Active mobility increased for sustainable zero-carbon urban multimodality, through human-centric planning, mobility hubs and behaviour change. KU Leuven
Active Cities increases the share of active mobility (walking, cycling) in North Sea Region (NSR) cities for sustainable zero-carbon multimodality, through: human-centric planning of streets, green-accessibility of mobility hubs (train stations, schools) and behaviour change, putting citizens (back) at the core. Walking and cycling are age-old methods of mobility, emission-free, and healthy, but stagnant or in decline in cities’ multimodal ...
The power of imaginaries in urban and peri-urban planning conflicts: a postcolonial and comparative perspective on informal land use and services in Bogota, Lima and La Paz Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The role of spatial memory in urban reconstruction planning after disaster. The Ypres case. KU Leuven
In urban reconstruction planning after a disaster, the pressure on the recovery of space, discourse and organisations brings forward a monomaniac strategy often based on the four-staged recovery model (emergency – restoration – reconstruction – commemoration). Destroyed cities are confronted with a new function: they become a memory landscape, translated by many memorials, monuments and cemeteries. In this way, ...
Planning High-speed Railway System in Urban China KU Leuven
The high-speed railway (HSR) network expansion and the subsequent urbanization processes are extremely rapid in China. However, the internal logics of the HSR system planning and its correlations with the urban system remain unknown to us. In this research we respond to this problem through more transdisciplinary, multiscale, and process-oriented perceptions. To break down interdisciplinary barriers, the study conducts debates on an ...