Projects
Gentrification, migration, and conflicts about neighbourhood development and transformation: a historically comparative approach. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Neighbourhood power Hasselt University
Toolbox "Healthy food in the neighbourhood for everyone - every step counts" KU Leuven
This project aims to provide more insights and formulate recommendations for policy interventions directed at both the
food environment and the walkability of neighbourhoods, in order to prevent or tackle obesogenic environments. We will
pay special attention to neighbourhoods with a high proportion of residents living in a vulnerable situation. We will develop
a ready-made toolbox for local authorities, community workers and ...
EMBRACing changE: Overcoming obstacles and advancing democracy in the European Neighbourhood Ghent University
Since the colour revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, and the Arab Spring in MENA, few countries in the European neighbourhood have made progress in democratisation. Instead, reverse trends towards de-democratisation and il-liberalisation can be observed. The EU-funded EMBRACE project will investigate obstacles to democratisation in the European neighbourhood and identify ways to overcome them. It will examine various types of ...
Combinatorial bounds for heuristic neighbourhood search KU Leuven
Ecological neighbourhood. Definition, identification and description of the starting conditions Ghent University
Under the influence of the environment and climate change is their a growing need for sustainable urban design, compact building, compact and green at the same time. Ecological neighbourhoods are a possible answer to tackle this challenge.
Often is the description of ecological neihbourhouds today limited to energy efficienty, watersaving measures, other types of mobility and the role of participation.
This study ...
The shared neighbourhood between the EU and Russia: from conflictual towards cooperative regional orders? Ghent University
The proposed research will examine under which conditions the two competing regional projects – the Eastern Partnership developed by the EU, and the Eurasian Economic Union promoted by Russia – could evolve towards a state of peaceful coexistence and even cooperation in the post-Soviet space, in a world order shifting from the hegemony of the Western liberal order towards a multi-order system.
The Emergent Urbanism(s) of Suburbio, GuayaquilA spatial ethnography of incremental grassroots development in times of a changing society and environment KU Leuven
Guayaquil – Ecuador’s main port and largest settlement – is a 70 per cent self-built city located amidst the most biodiverse estuarine complex of the South Pacific: the Guayas River Estuary. The city’s first suburbs proliferated in ecologically fragile zones in which the urban fabric and public spaces were crafted incrementally by various generations and through a multitude of design decisions. These now consolidated low-income neighbourhoods ...