Boer, Robert A.A. den (2023) Creating Space for Sustainable Communities. Master thesis.
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Masterthesis Robert den Boer SSP - Creating Space for Sustainable Communities - Final version January 2023.pdf Download (5MB) | Preview |
Abstract
Eco communities may help meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and the CO2 reduction aims of the Dutch Climate Act. To create eco communities/eco-housing, Collective Private Commissioning (CPC) as contract form could be relevant, since self-build housing initiatives have the potential to be more sustainable than the large-scale housing development dominant in the Netherlands today. Simultaneously, self-build enables to create eco communities for less financial investment. Today, the number of eco self-build community housing (ESBCH) projects in the Netherlands is limited and their numbers vary by municipality, ranging from zero to multiple projects. This thesis aimed to explore the influence of a municipality’s willingness and ability on the realization of ESBCH in the Netherlands. To do this, a literature study and two case studies are conducted by using interviews. The cases are the successfully realized project Geworteld Wonen in Rijswijk, and the anticipated but challenging development of De Kleine Plantage in Het Hogeland. This study’s results show the municipality can have a key role in facilitating the realization of ESBCH by, for instance, applying a leasehold construction and an active land exploitation. This connects to a municipality’s willingness to realize ESBCH. However, the Dutch financial situation nationally has a considerable effect on realizing ESBCH, because it affects the land prices and material prices. That affects a municipality’s ability to realize ESBCH. The municipal opportunities, limitations and motivations compared make Rijswijk score relatively high on willingness and ability and Het Hogeland relatively low. Concluding, a municipality’s willingness and ability to realize ESBCH-projects does contribute to the differences in realized ESBCH-projects per Dutch municipality. This study’s results on ESBCH are largely in line with previous research on elements affecting the realization of CPC, which most ESBCH-projects use, like the municipality’s land position. However, the city council’s actions play a larger role in realizing ESBCH than showed by previous research. Moreover, ESBCH can contribute to municipal status and achieving sustainability goals. This study adds knowledge to the field of eco-housing and spatial planning by indicating possibilities for municipalities to stimulate ESBCH. The thesis recommends focusing more on the initiators’ side in follow-up research to illustrate which values and interests correspond to the municipality and which do not.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Society, Sustainability and Planning (MSc Socio-spatial Planning) |
| Supervisor: | Trell-Zuidema, E.M. |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Feb 2023 13:41 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Feb 2023 13:41 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4106 |
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