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SMETS, A. J. H. The restructuring of dutch inner-cities: luxury apartments and their inhabitants. In: CIB SYMPOSIUM ON CONSTRUCTION E ENVIRONMENT: THEORY INTO PRACTICE, 2000, São Paulo. Anais… São Paulo, 2000.
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Abstract

Since the begin of the 1990's, sustainable urban planning and market-oriented housing policy led to an increase of the restructuring of dilapidated inner-city sites and the development of luxurious apartments. Policy shifted from urban expansion to the sustainable and economic revitalization of cities by restricting the number of suburban building plots, by strengthening inner-city services, and by countering the increasing use of cars. Furthermore, the government retrenched gradually from housing development. Therefore, more opportunities arose for private initiative and attractive urban residential areas were realized based on Public-Private Partnerships. This was also related to the increasing preferences of middle and high-income households to live in inner-cities: close to work and services. However, it is unknown how luxury city apartments are planned in Public-Private Partnerships and which strategies actors have to design in a specific segment of the housing market. Furthermore, because national government cut housing subsidies, the involved local public and private actors have become more dependent on the demand side of the housing market. Therefore, the aim of this research is to gain more insight in the extent to which characteristics and behaviour of occupants of new housing projects correspond to assumptions of public and private actors. The decision-making of government, developers and households was investigated by the implementation of two case studies: the former sites of the Academic Hospital Utrecht and the ceramics industry in Maastricht. The results show that only if the involved actors interchange goals and means, the decision-making will be successful for all of them.
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