Delft Centre for Sustainable Urban Areas
Neighbourhoods are being transformed. Urban networks are being created. The built environment must cater to the varied demands of humans and the environment both now and in the future. Integrated knowledge of the development of urban areas helps to create a place worth living in. In an urbanizing world, the challenge is to ensure that this process does not endanger the quality of life, economic vitality, social cohesion and mobility of our environment. We therefore have to create the right conditions for the future and plan sustainable urban areas where people can live, work and entertain themselves. This calls for multidisciplinary research along the lines of the work carried out by the Delft Centre for Sustainable Urban Areas. It is here that we learn to understand things like the housing market, planning policy, neighbourhood development, business activity in urban areas and leisure development: factors that will lead to the practical and sustainable renewal of our built environment.

Research programmes
The overall theme of the Delft Centre for Sustainable Urban Areas is elaborated in ten research programmes:
· Real Estate Management and Project Management: Matching the supply and demand of property
· Sustainable Housing Transformations: A giant step in raising the quality of the housing stock
· Network Cities: Understanding networks to improve the quality of urban life
· Multi-actor systems
· Materials Sciences and Sustainable Construction: A sustainable vision on the building cycle
· Housing Systems: Market dynamics and housing: anticipating demands
· Urban Systems and Territorial Governance: Towards a more pro-active and legitimate spatial policy
· Urban Renewal and Housing: Manoeuvring carefully between individual and collective interests
· Geo-Information and Land Development: A man and his land: a combination of dynamic forces
· GIS-technology 'The virtual Netherlands': heading towards an efficient geo-information society

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