eprintid: 3610
rev_number: 6
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datestamp: 2021-07-27 06:19:47
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Scholte, Jorrick
creators_id: S3000591
creators_email: jorrickscholte@gmail.com
title: Citizen participation around housing plans - a theory testing case study in Groningen
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: Since the Netherlands have to deal with a housing problem due to among others urbanization and 
population growth, urban regions have to build houses. The municipality of Groningen plans 20.000 
houses until 2035. Therefore, the municipal executive has selected several sites which will be 
extended or revitalized in both the inner city and outside the city. Housing projects ask for a 
customized citizen participation approach, since it influences citizens’ place specific perspective. 
Support for housing plans in a certain urban region depends among others on citizen participation. 
However, not much is known about differences in citizen participation between certain urban 
regions. Where in literature advantages and disadvantages of citizen participation are given, there 
is a gap how this is perceived in different urban regions. Groningen strives for being a compact city, 
while urban sprawl arises at the rural-urban fringe. Understanding the roles of place perspective in 
a certain urban form and well-being are important points of interest in debates on environmental 
and social sustainability of cities. Unless the pressure to build houses on both urban sites, citizens 
are involved in such participation processes. There are conditions for successful participation, 
which have been the basis for this thesis. This thesis is done to see to what extent a mismatch 
exists in citizen participation between inner and outer city neighbourhoods in Groningen. For both 
urban planners as citizens this research could be interesting which indicators contribute to citizen 
participation and to deal with them in case of housing plans.
date: 2021
pages: 24
thesis_type: bachelor
degree_programme: TP
tutors_name: Bandsma, K.V.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Planologie
tutors_email: K.V.Bandsma@rug.nl
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keywords_local: citizen participation
keywords_local: place perspective
keywords_local: compact city
keywords_local: urban sprawl
keywords_local: housing plans
keywords_local: municipalities
language_iso: en
agreed_repository: yes
date_issued: 2021-07-26
citation:   Scholte, Jorrick  (2021) Citizen participation around housing plans - a theory testing case study in Groningen.  Bachelor thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3610/1/Assignment%207.2%20Bachelor%20Project%20Jorrick%20Scholte%20S3000591%20.pdf