What Luxembourg reveals about housing pressures and emerging market dynamics This post was written by Tuna Tasan-Kok. Last week, I had the pleasure of travelling to Luxembourg City for a meeting of the advisory board for the HypeRent research project[1] …
This post was written by Tuna Tasan-Kok. This post is based on the Keynote Dialogue with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Barbara Pizzo (Sapienza Universita di Roma), SIU Conference (Societa Italiana Degli Urbanisti) – XXVIIth National Conference, 20 June 2025, https://www.societaurbanisti.it Is …
From policy to practice in fragmented planning systems This post was written by Ebru Kurt-Özman. Setting the scene: Why we came together Held on July 8, 2025, at the AESOP Annual Congress in Istanbul, our UGoveRN roundtable titled “From Policy …
By Vera Setijawati and Danielle Chevalier. Kampung Susun: The Vertical Organization of Community Can community structures be recreated through spatial planning? The concept of the Kampung Susun represents an ambitious attempt to do so. Kampung is the Malay word for …
UGoveRN’s First Panel at NIG UGhent This post was written by Igor Pessoa. The Event Last week, the UGoveRN organised a panel (more like a small track) at the NIG (Netherlands Institute of Governance) 2024/25 conference at Ghent University. It …
Rebuilding Toronto’s non-profit housing development industry This post was written by Yinnon Geva. Everybody loves non-profit housing Canada is experiencing an unprecedented housing crisis and is rapidly becoming one of the least affordable countries in the Global North. Housing costs …
This post was written by Elise F. Jansen. In this blog I describe the findings from my master thesis in Urban and Regional Planning titled “The influence of flexible densification policy on contractual arrangements of affordable housing”. The primary research …
This post was written by Nagwa Kady. Urban planning aims to safeguard public interests through spatial regulations that foster social value within communities. However, in our article “Lost in Translation: Unlocking Planning’s Potential to Harness Social Value from Property Development …
This post was written by Tuna Tasan-Kok. In the intricate world of urban development, property-market decisions are woven from a complex web of uncertainty, strategy, and collaboration. This complexity is thoroughly examined in Tuna Taşan-Kok’s article, “Navigating the City: Role …
Beyond the blueprint This post was written by Elisha Aaron. The city of Amsterdam articulates in its “Structuurvisie 2040” a specific strategy to make the built environment of the city denser and more compact. This includes “building more than 5,000 …
The need for a regional perspective Affordable housing remains a pressing issue globally, and Amsterdam is no exception. As the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated trends in residential property investments and urban migration, it became evident that the existing urban-centric solutions were …
This post was written by Sara Özoğul. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, UGoveRN embarked on an initiative to support early career scholars at the intersection of planning and real estate studies. This initiative was part of …