Open House International: Volume 30 Issue 3

Editorial: Residential Mobility and Urban Change

Roland Goetgeluk, Sako Musterd

Over the past decades, residential mobility has received a good deal of attention in the academic world. However, its mutual relationship with urban change has a more recent…

Towards the Polycentric Urban Region: Impacts on Centres and Milieus

Sako Musterd, Marco Bontje, Wim Ostendorf

Over the past four decades, many urban regions, including the Amsterdam region, have changed from compact monocentric urban entities to - albeit still fairly compact - polycentric…

Residential Mobility and Neighbourhood Careers

William A.V. Clark, Marinus C. Deurloo, Frans M. Dieleman

Residential mobility is the process by which households attempt to harmonize their housing needs with their housing consumption. However, since houses are geographically…

Intra-Urban Migrations and Deprived Neighbourhoods in Flanders and Brussels

Stefan De Corte, Peter Raymaekers, Karen Thaens, Brecht Vandekerckhove

This paper analyses migrations at neighbourhood level in relation to the persistence of deprived neighbourhoods. The research is based on a sample of deprived neighbourhoods…

Housing Careers for Social Tenants in France: A Case Study

Stéphane R. Robin

In France, social housing provides a significant proportion of housing services. The present contribution seeks to identify housing careers for social tenants, using event history…

People and Places: Mobility Aspirations among London Households

Youngha Cho, Christine Whitehead

An important question from the point of view of neighbourhood dynamics is the extent to which households are satisfied with where they live and their mobility patterns. Many of…

Gentrification - The Prospect for European Cities?

Lena Magnusson

Urbanization usually involves gentrification. Gentrification implies revitalization whereby housing becomes more up-market. This aim of this study is to ascertain whether…

New Life Courses and Postponed Timing of Home Establishment

Hans Christian Sandlie

Housing consumption has been rising throughout the post-war era in Norway. However, at the end of the 1990s there was a decline in consumption among young age groups. This…

Migration Directions and Policy in Malaysia

Asan Ali Golam Hassan

The discussion in this article will attempt to establish the general pattern of demographic structural change in Peninsular Malaysia and its constituent regions, and to examine…

Migration Analysis as a Political Instrument The case of the Leiden and Bulb Regions in Randstad Holland

Roland Goetgeluk, Tom de Jong

This paper explains how a relatively simple analytical spatial algorithm and a GIS visualization of inter-municipal migration patterns revitalized the negotiations for a formal…

Sustaining Vernacular Architecture - Antiochia as a Sample

Meltem Yýlmaz

Much of the world, is currently experiencing intense growth, especially in and around cities. Most conventional practitioners of modern design and construction find it easier to…