Using a broad international comparative perspective spanning multiple countries across South America, Europe and Africa, contributors explore resident-led self-builing for low- and middle-income groups in urban areas. Although social, economic and urban prosperity differs across these contexts, there …

This paper analyses co-creation in urban living labs through a multi-level network perspective on system innovation. We draw on the case House of Skills, a large, multi-stakeholder living lab aimed at developing a ‘skills-based’ approach towards labour market innovation within the Amsterdam Metropolitan …

This paper describes how an urban commons is established on the Amsterdam market square Plein ’40-’45, to explain how an experimental learning environment can be a living lab for improving collaborative governance arrangements. We detail how this improvement is facilitated by an experimental learning …

Many cities are facing challenges in finding an equilibrium in the use of urban consumption spaces. Urban consumption spaces comprise different sociospatial relationships, bringing together work, consumption, recreation and habitation in a delimited area within the city. This mixed character is a potential …

Deze rapportage bevat de resultaten van het onderzoek ‘5 jaar Bedrijveninvesteringszone in Nederland’,uitgevoerd door de Hogeschool van Amsterdam en Hogeschool Rotterdam in opdracht van Platform De Nieuwe Winkelstraat en Stad & Co in samenwerking met Provincie Noord-Holland. De opdracht is uitgevoerd …

Bij de gemeenten beslissen klantmanagers over de toegang tot uitkeringen, over mogelijke sancties en de deelname aan een re-integratietrajecten. Zij zijn de frontline professionals die binnen hun discretionaire ruimte beslissingen nemen over de uitvoer van de participatiewet. De autonomie van deze professionals …