Early studies suggest that people living in rural neighbourhoods are more satisfied with their
residential location than people living in cities. Consequently, most individuals seem to …

A substantial fraction of the open space in (peri-) urban and rural areas is covered by
domestic gardens which support the delivery of multiple ecosystem services. Although …

While policy makers in different parts of the world are worried about the supposedly negative
consequences of spatial concentrations of ethnic minorities and/or disadvantaged people …

Flanders (Belgium) is aging at high speed. In 2060, almost one in three (32 percent) will be
older than 60. The number of people aged 80 and over will increase from more than …

Governments all over the world try to influence in one way or another the residential mobility
of their citizens. This article takes the vantage point of why Belgians do not want to change …

From the very first negotiations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights half a century ago to the present day, socio-economic rights have often been …

Over the past few decades, the number of students attending universities and university
colleges in Belgium has increased considerably. In many Western countries, this trend is …

Contemporary evaluations of urban growth management (UGM) strategies often take the
shape of quantitative measurements of land values and housing prices. In this paper, we …

Being recognised as the predominant urban pattern of the twenty-first century,
suburbanisation is a global phenomenon that is characteristically regionalised: time-and site …

This paper explores the possible contribution of cinematic perceptions for spatial planning in
general and the inclusion of everyday experience in the planning of the Flemish urbanized …