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Status: public -- Last revision: 11 August 2000 -- Expiration date: 31 December 2000
Description: VERTALING AUB
Uitgaande van de handelskern in de Brabantstraat is het de bedoeling een aantal mogelijke reditributiemechanismen op te zetten naar andere stedelijke functies in de wijk; gebruik makend van andere ontwikkelingspolen die met de Brabantwijk in interactie worden gebracht.
Orderer: Koning Boudewijnstichting
Supervisor: C. Kesteloot
Researcher:
Duration: 12/1999-06/2000
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Supervisor: C. Kesteloot
Mandate: K. Peleman
Description:
In this research, the degree to which possibilities of Moroccan women to participate in society are determined by neighbourhood caracteristics, is analysed by means of qualitative interviews in and around Antwerp. Aspects of participation that are taken into account are: use of space and of facilities in the neighbourhood, social networks, labour market, club life,… Participation is analysed starting from the interaction between three factors: the position of the minority culture, male domination in society and Islamic religion. Because of the social control, neighbourhood environment plays an important role as a catalyst.
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The project focuses on spatial patterns of social exclusion and the extent to which concentrations of deprivation add to the problems of developing effective policy responses. The research concerns 11 European cities in 6 countries. In each city 2 deprived neighbourhoods will be studied. The extend of spatial segregation of socially excluded people, the factors explaining this segregation and the extent to which segregation exacerbates exclusion will be compared between the neighbourhoods.
Finally, it will consider the impact of different policy initiatives to combat exclusion on areas where there are concentrated problems of deprivation and exclusion.
Orderer: ??????
Supervisor: C. Kesteloot
Co-supervisor: ?????
Researcher: ??????????
Duration: 1/1999 - 6/2001
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The proposed research means to develop a useful methodology to measure the dimensions and the spatial characteristics of the 'grey' or 'marginal' residential stage in varying environmental (rural, suburban and urban) housing conditions. Although the mean purpose is explorative, the investigation will offer a spin-off for further in-depth examination.
In a first phase of the inquiry we will present a concise overview of the grey residential stage in two reference countries, Great-Britain and the Netherlands, after which a few recently completed researches in Flanders on the subject will be screened. In this phase the focus will be mainly on the handled methodology. In the second phase we will search for significant criteria relating on this 'grey residential stage' in order to select four typical municipalities. We will distinguish three types of variables, namely official quantitative information, supplementary quantitative information derived from varying kinds of inventories and finally non-quantitative information derived from publications of several social organisations. The mutually testing of the resulting variables will lead to the selection of four meaningful municipalities where the methodology will be concretised and further worked out in detail, this in the third phase of the inquiry. In this phase the main task will be to build up a file of data in each neighbourhood, with relevant demographic information of the households in the grey residential stage. The fourth phase will be mainly qualitative. The residential careers, with an emphasis on time-space migration patterns, as well as the ownership titles, the housig quality and the residential satisfaction will be examined through interviews with a few well selected privileged witnesses. This will permit to expose some policy insights in the spatial-economical mechanisms and processes underlying the marginal residential stage. In a fifth phase we will develop an evaluation of the different research methologies and formulate and answer to relevant questions related to policy making in Flanders.
Orderer: Vlaamse Gemeenschap
Supervisor: H. Meert
Researcher: T. De Rijck
Duration: 11/1999 - 03/2002
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This research starts with a typology of deprived neighbourhoods in Flanders, taking the population dynamics between 1981 and 1996 into account and studies the residential mobility at the household level within a selection of these neighbourhoods. Data are drawn from the national population register the 1981 and 1991 censures. Four research questions are addressed: are the residential movement demographically, socially and or etnically selective? Are they predictable on the grounds of the housing conditions of the households? Are there any relations between such selection effects and the type of deprived neighbourhoods? Are changes of spatial concentration of poverty due to changes in poverty itself or do they result from residential mobility of the poor?
Orderer: Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen
Supervisor: C. Kesteloot
Co-supervisor: E. Van Hecke
Researcher: H. Vandenbroecke
Duration: 01/1999 - 12/2000
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This research investigates the spatial dimensions of present day informal economy in a West-European context. The innovative dimension of this research concerns two topics: on the one hand the elaboration of a new typology of informal economic activities, related to Polanyi's three spheres of economic integration (market exchange, redistribution an reciprocity), on the other hand an analysis of the relation between space and informal activities, according to different geographical scales.
Orderer: Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen, postdoctoral fellowship
Supervisor: H. Meert
Researcher: H. Meert
Duration: 10/1998 - 9/2001
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Description:
The implementation of the Social Impulse Fund of the Flemish Government and the delimitation of deprived areas in Flanders and Brussels have spurred research and policy measures about the spatial concentration of deprivation in the cities.
Parallel research on the spatial dimension of poverty has yielded an analytical theoretical framework based on the concept of modes of economic integration, through which households and groups gain access to their means of existence (and are hampered to do so in case of poverty). Access to these means can be secured through reciprocal exchange, redistribution by the state or through market exchange where most households offer their labour force. These concepts result from earlier work by Polanyi, Harvey and Mingione and were recently further developed at the Institute of Social and Economic Geography of the K.U.Leuven to an integrating framework in which welfare state regimes, causes of deprivation and social exclusion, regional urban and local socio-economic configurations, characteristics of deprived areas and nature of social exclusion at the level of the households can be situated. Policy measures and their relation with all these other elements can also be assessed within the same framework.
With this theoretical analytical framework, the project aims at a middle term continuous analysis of the changes in deprived areas in Flanders and Brussels and of urban policy, in order to assess the changes in the opportunities for economic integration of the population concerned. This analysis is founded on three elements:
1) Collection of existing and production of new longitudinal data at the neighbourhood level and their analysis
2) continuous survey and synthetic analysis of fundamental research on the spatial dimension of poverty and community development and of action research in deprived areas, especially in a West-European context.
3) Survey and analysis of the implementation of the Flemish and Brussels urban policy and interaction with the actors of urban policy on the basis of the three research elements.
Knowledge produced around the three elements will be integrated through the proposed framework and submitted to the local and national policy makers to foster mutual influence between policy and research and exchange of experiences among the actors of urban policy, to confront them with the research results and favour the extablishment of common interests.
Orderer: Vlaamse Gemeenschap
Supervisor: C. Kesteloot
Co-supervisor: P. Saey (RUGent)
Researcher: M. Loopmans, F. De Maesschalck, P. Mistiaen, W. Denaeyer (RUGent)
Website of the project: http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/StaDT
Duration: 10/1999 - 09/2001
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The project aims at delimiting the census tracts with socio-economic and urbanistic difficulties within the 17 Belgian urban regions.
A measure of decay on the basis of relevant indicators is constructed for this purpose. The report will contain a description of the methodological issues (multivariate analysis of possible indicators, typology of neighbourhoods, selection of indicators and thresholds, construction of a decay index), the list of neighbourhoods and their decay index and an atlas of the deprived areas in the 17 Belgian urban regions.
Orderer: Federaal Minister van Economie en Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Supervisor: C. Kesteloot
Researcher: H. Vandenbroecke, A. De Turck
Duration: 5/2000 - 7/2000
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The economic restructuring following the crisis of the seventies has induced deep changes in the world economy. Fundamental dimensions of these changes are the globalizing of the economy, deregulation and flexibility. Cities have also experienced transformations under these processes. The economic globalization has engendered new economic activities (especially in information industries and services to firms), new consumption patterns and new social relations. Deregulation and flexibility cause in this context increasing inter-city competition and the formation of urban networks. On the intra-urban scale, globalization has also established new inequalities, expressed in marginalization processes of certain urban neighbourhoods. This research aims at analysing these new urban inequalities in a comparative perspective in West-European cities (Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris, London, Hamburg, Milano, Bilbao, and Frankfurt).
Orderer: Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO)
Supervisor: C. Kesteloot
Researcher: C. Kesteloot
Duration: continuous
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The evolution of purchase behaviour and the increased mobility have affected on the one hand the functional equipment of the settlement system and on the other hand the importance of the hierarchical levels and through this the limits of the hinterlands. Geographical research on recent evolution trends within the Belgian system and within the Belgian city regions yields insight in the systems functioning and gives a scientific framework for theories on services and companies location.
Orderer:
Supervisors: E. Van Hecke
Researcher: E. Van Hecke
Duration: 1/1999 - 12/2001
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Supervisor: M. Jansen-Verbeke
Mandate: E. Lievois
Description:
The Ph.D. combines de phenomenon of urban tourism with applications in Geographic Information Systems. Urban tourism can be viewed as a system that consists of different elements and their characteristics (e.g. attractions, urban facilities, tourists), and their mutual relationships. In addition there are also relationships between the elements of the system and the environment of the system.
The intern relationships are not only established by tourism suppliers and promotors, but also by the tourists themselves. The spatial component of urban tourism on microlevel, not only the pattern of tourist supply, but also the time-space behaviour by which tourists establish relationships between these elements, can enhance our understanding of urban tourism as a system and allow for better planning.
In particular the spatial conditions of synergy between tourist attractions and urban facilities, like shops and catering, will be discussed.
The methodological contribution of the Ph.D. is a search for the potential of GIS for inventarisation, visualisation, spatial analysis and management of the tourist city.
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Supervisor: M. Jansen-Verbeke
Mandate: J. Bryon
Description:
The research focuses on the conservation of the fragile balance in historic cities between the daily urban functions and tourism. This is done from the viewpoint of city management, in which managing tourism flows is an important policy goal. Attention is paid to the possible impact of megaevents on this equilibrium. Do events contribute to sustainable tourism? Therefore an instrument of measuring the effects (desirable or non-desirable, direct or indirect) must be developed. The impact of an event needs to be monitored. In order to manage tourism and not to exceed the physic-morphological, economic and socio-cultural capacity limits, indicators of the city's carrying capacity can be determined.
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The most important pressure that households put on the environment is due to their residential behaviour. Therefore, the migration movements will be studied in detail as well as the profile of the migrants. The motivations will be examined on the basis of questionnaires. All these data should lead to a better knowledge of the mechanisms behind the suburbanization. The second part of the study will focus on the impact on the environment, including land use, energy consumption and particulary the additional costs, in terms of collective facilities and services. Some thoughts about the potential instruments to avoid the disadvantages of the movements will conclude the study. The instruments used in neighbouring countries shall be analysed.
Orderer:
Diensten van de Eerste Minister, wetenschappelijke, technische en culturele aangelegenheden (D.W.T.C.)
Supervisor: E. Van Hecke
Co-supervisor: B. Mérenne (ULg)
Researcher: S. Savenberg
Duration: 5/1997-12/2001
Documentation
Working paper n° 6 (march 1998): Première phase: Etude des consommations d'espace et d'énergie, B. Mérenne-Schoumaker, L. Brück, J.-B. Jehin, Th. Van Hoof (Ulg)
Working paper n° 21 (juni 1998): Typologie van de migraties naar leeftijd, S. Savenberg, E. Van Hecke (K.U.Leuven ISEG)
Working paper n°24 (juni 1998): De invloed van het suburbanisatieproces op de gemeentefinanciën, S. Savenberg, E. Van Hecke (K.U.Leuven ISEG)
Working paper n°25 (oktober 1999): Motivaties voor een suburbane residentiële keuze: belangrijkste resultaten, S. Savenberg, E. Van Hecke (K.U.Leuven ISEG), L. Brück, J.-M. Halleux, B. Mérenne-Schoumaker (Ulg SEGEFA) (disponible en Français!)
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The aim of the study is to estimate the financial flows in the health care between the Brussels Capital Region and the other regions, as a consequence of the spatial concentration of health care institutions in Brussels. Data on hospitalisation and health insurance funds data are analysed.
Orderer: Minister Grijp, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest
Supervisor: C. Kesteloot
Co-Supervisors: C. Vandermotten (IGEAT-ULB)
Researcher: T. Roesems
Duration: 11/1998 - 5/2000
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Research to quantify poverty in agriculture in Flanders and Wallonia. A methodological approach.
Orderer: Koning Boudewijnstichting, Brussel
Supervisor: E. Van Hecke
Researcher: E. Van Hecke
Duration: 6/1999 - 7/2000
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Orderer: Koning Boudewijnstichting, Brussel
Supervisor: E. Van Hecke
Copromotor: H. Meert
Researcher: M. Bourgeois
Duration: 9/2000 - 12/2001
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Description:
Carry out spatial analysis as part of the spatial policy of firms: organisation, canvassing (socio-economic characteristics of the population, areas of attraction, potentialities), location of activities, prognoses of population, … Cartographic representations.
Orderer:
Private companies as there are I.T.T.-Promedia, Top-Trends 30.000, CODIC (real estate), NMBS, Study agencies, … through Leuven Research & Development
Supervisor: E. Van Hecke
Duration: continuous
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Research on spatial structures of landuse related to internal dynamics
Supervisor: E. Van Hecke
Researcher: E. Van Hecke
Duration: continuous
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Study (with GIS as an analytical tool) of the relationship between socio-economic characteristics of a site, transport and mobility, human behaviour and spatial decision making; shape and even perception of market areas and economic specialisation and concentration in space. Spatial socio-economic differences as a cause for differential regional and local development.
Supervisor: D. Vanneste
Researcher: D. Vanneste
Duration: 1/1994-12/2000
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Project about the development of eductational materials and lessons to be integrated in guided self-study using informations and communication technology (ICT): 2 types of materials are developed:
1) a package of independent lessons on spatial transformations on post-apartheid in South Africa; also usable for distance learning,
2) development of virtual fields trips for educational use via the web, focussed themes that support lectures about urban regions, geographical spatial entities, economic location, etc. in Belgium).
Supervisor/coordinator: Virtual Geography Department (University of Texas at Austin)
Researcher: D. Vanneste
Duration: 5/1998-9/2000
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The aim of the project is to create some simulations on the web that approach real field explorations as good as possible. They have a double objective, according to the dual target group, offering
1) a better preparation tool for actual fieldwork of students in geography (and other disciplines) and
2) an eminent educational alternative for students who have no opportunity to doe real field work (although they have geography as a course).
The website modules will be developed according to several themes (rural settlement systems, suburbanisation, industrial reconversion) and will focus on
1) showing what spatial patterns are reflecting what social processes and
2) illustrating how spatial structures can influence human behavior.
From this training in the development of spatial insights, links are created towards the implications of spatial management.
Orderer: K.U.Leuven - Onderwijscoördinatie (OOI)
Supervisor: D. Vanneste (ISEG)
Co-supervisor: M. Jansen-Verbeke (ISEG)
E. Demeersseman (Impulscentrum voor Onderwijsvernieuwing KULAK/KATHO)
Researcher: L. Colardyn, K. Mampaey
Duration: 10/2000-9/2002
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Description:
Within the spatial structure plan for Flanders, there is need of population prognosis (total population, households, …) on the level of local communities.
Orderer: Intercommunale Maatschappij voor Ruimtelijke Ontwikkeling in Limburg
Supervisor: E. Van Hecke
Duration: 1999 - 2000
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Description: VERTALING AUB
Het geografische luik bestudeert de omzetting van de ruimtelijke gegevens van de verschillende onderdelen naar een gemeenschappelijke ruimtelijke onderverdeling in een databank op te zetten. Andere taken zijn de kritische evaluatie van geocodering; het verrijken van de databank met socio-demografische gegevens; methodologie naar cartografie toe (kwaliteitscontrole GPS-metingen; omzetting van statistische buurt); cartografie
Orderer: Vlaamse Gemeenschap
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. R. Vlietinck
Co-supervisor: E. Van Hecke
Researchers: E. Van Hecke, J. Boon, A. Delien
Duration: 3/1999 - 9/2000
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