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The Purchasing of Maintenance Service Delivery in the Dutch Social Housing Sector
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

The Purchasing of Maintenance Service Delivery in the Dutch Social Housing Sector

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

Reveals the essential determinants of maintenance service quality in order to promote tenant satisfaction. This title develops commodity strategies for the purchasing of maintenance services which make its optimization possible from the perspective of tenant satisfaction.

The Just City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

The Just City

For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial, political, economic, and financial resources to favor economic growth at the expense of wider social benefits. Susan Fainstein's concept of the "just city" encourages planners and policymakers to embrace a different approach to urban development. Her objective is to combine progressive city planners' earlier focus on equity and material well-being with considerations of diversity and participation so as to foster a better quality of urban life within...

The Measurement and Analysis of Housing Preference and Choice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

The Measurement and Analysis of Housing Preference and Choice

What are the current trends in housing? Is my planned project commercially viable? What should be my marketing and advertisement strategies? These are just some of the questions real estate agents, landlords and developers ask researchers to answer. But to find the answers, researchers are faced with a wide variety of methods that measure housing preferences and choices. To select and value a valid research method, one needs a well-structured overview of the methods that are used in housing preference and housing choice research. This comprehensive introduction to this field offers just such an overview. It discusses and compares numerous methods, detailing the potential limitation of each one, and it reaches beyond methodology, illustrating how thoughtful consideration of methods and techniques in research can help researchers and other professionals to deliver products and services that are more in line with residents’ needs.

Regions, Land Consumption and Sustainable Growth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Regions, Land Consumption and Sustainable Growth

This book provides an in-depth investigation of the role of the private and public sectors in land markets and regional economics, and explores the reasons behind government intervention in the interests of sustainable growth. The authors explore the subject of regional development and changing land use in a variety of different countries. They examine broad themes such as urban structure, infrastructure and eco-structure, and look in detail at issues including housing, transport and technology clustering. They also demonstrate that for a proper understanding of long-term changes, the broader institutional settings and policy regimes are of critical importance, as it is within this framework...

Built Environment and Car Travel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 183

Built Environment and Car Travel

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

Analyses of Interdependencies. An academic and policy debate has been running in recent decades on whetherand to what extent travel behaviour is influenced by the built environment.This dissertation addresses the influence on daily travel distance, chainingbehaviour, car ownershi

Recent Developments in Spatial Analysis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

Recent Developments in Spatial Analysis

In recent years, spatial analysis has become an increasingly active field, as evidenced by the establishment of educational and research programs at many universities. Its popularity is due mainly to new technologies and the development of spatial data infrastructures. This book illustrates some recent developments in spatial analysis, behavioural modelling, and computational intelligence. World renown spatial analysts explain and demonstrate their new and insightful models and methods. The applications are in areas of societal interest such as the spread of infectious diseases, migration behaviour, and retail and agricultural location strategies. In addition, there is emphasis on the uses of new technologoies for the analysis of spatial data through the application of neural network concepts.

The Transport System and Transport Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 425

The Transport System and Transport Policy

ÔThis very interesting book provides an excellent multi-disciplinary introduction into the functioning of transport systems and the interaction with their environments.Õ Ð Erik Verhoef, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands ÔThe editors of this important book have clearly identified that few writings on transport treat the transport system as a whole. Implicit in this is a need for a genuinely multidisciplinary approach. An impressive list of contributors ensures that the book draws on the latest research whilst providing new insights into some of the key challenges facing transport students and researchers, transport providers and policy makers.Õ Ð Roger Vickerman, University of Ke...

Puzzling Neighbourhood Effects
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

Puzzling Neighbourhood Effects

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

Like other West European countries, the Netherlands are facing a growing uneasiness about its changing demographics. It is within this context that animated discussions concerning immigrant neighbourhoods dominate. The general opinion is that living in such neighbourhoods hinders the 'integration' of immigrants into Dutch society. This book contributes to the academic and policy debate by not only examining the effects of ethnic concentration, but also by finding out how people are sorted into neighbourhoods. Bringing together different bodies of literature, this book offers a more holistic vi ...

Economic Analysis of Neighbourhood Quality, Neighbourhood Reputation and the Housing Market
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Economic Analysis of Neighbourhood Quality, Neighbourhood Reputation and the Housing Market

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Delft University of Technology, Delft, 2012.

Rule and Order Dutch Planning Doctrine in the Twentieth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 333

Rule and Order Dutch Planning Doctrine in the Twentieth Century

This book is about an art in which the Netherlands excels: strategic planning. Foreign observers will need little convincing of the merits of Dutch planning. They will want to know whether routine explanations (small country, industrious, disciplined people hardened by the perennial fight against the sea) hold any water, and they will want to know where to look for the bag of tricks of Dutch planners. Dutch readers need to be convinced first that planning in the Netherlands is indeed effective before contemplating how this has come about. Our message for both is that, to the extent that Dutch planners do live in what others are inclined to see as a planners' paradise, it is a paradise carefu...