Janz, Graham (2021) Openness To Degrowth Housing in Veendam (Centre). Master thesis.
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Abstract
Veendam is a medium-sized town and municipality in northeastern Netherlands with a municipal population of 27,417, and has been experiencing a slow but steady population decline since 1980. The Dutch housing crisis has been ongoing since 2014 and the market system of housing has not been able to deliver and match housing demand. Degrowth housing calls for a rethinking of the status symbol and investment narratives of growth that dominate our perspectives of housing, and instead concentrates on reducing the environmental impact of housing and views housing as a basic right. This thesis views degrowth as a solution for both the housing crisis and the vacant shops in Veendam Centre by converting vacant shops into housing. Using a qualitative approach interviews with users of Veendam Centre were asked whether they would be open to an aspect of degrowth housing (converting shops into houses, cohouses, squats, and decommodification of housing) occurring in Veendam Centre. The responses showed an openness to degrowth housing, which could have implications for planners and policy makers to conduct further openness research or begin experimenting with degrowth housing in the form of a living lab. Though the concepts were new to many of the people, more awareness of degrowth housing needs to be created through the means of local degrowth housing conventions or similar events.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Society, Sustainability and Planning (MSc Socio-spatial Planning) |
| Supervisor: | Lamker, C.W. |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Aug 2021 09:49 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2021 09:49 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3643 |
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