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The Netherlands in 2040: A country of regions - Spatial Outlook 2011

For many years spatial and transport planning has been a process of guiding and directing growth. Population, housing stock, jobs and kilometres travelled more or less continuously increased for…

Longitudinal analysis of the formation and realisation of preferences to move into homeownership in the Netherlands

To what extent do individual characteristics and contextual circumstances influence the formation and realisation of preferences to move into homeownership? And which categories of aspiring homeowners…
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From combating to managing: Demographic decline in the Netherlands - Policy strategies for current and future shrinking regions

From 2010 onwards, population and household numbers are projected to decrease rapidly in an increasing number of municipalities and regions in the Netherlands. There will also be a rapid decrease in…
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The Sustainable City

The Sustainable City study of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) uses an analytical–deliberative approach to generate integrated options for strategic, long-term urban development…
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Once an outsider, always an outsider? The accessibility of the Dutch rural housing market among locals and non-locals

Are intended movers with a preference for rural living able to move to their preferred rural location? One of the most pressing questions addressed in the rural gentrification literature is whether…
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Houdini: a system dynamics model for housing market reforms

This paper describes work in progress on Houdini: a system dynamics model of the Dutch housing market focused on explaining institutional structures leading to high price increases and obstructing new…
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Life events and the gap between intention to move and actual mobility

Life events are frequently mentioned as a reason why people do not behave according to their mobility intentions. However, there is little empirical evidence concerning the role of life events in the…
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Netherlands in the Future. Second Sustainability Outlook, the physical living environment in the Netherlands

The Netherlands has to fit all of its housing, employment and transport onto a relative small land surface area, while maintaining the quality of the living environment and the landscape. The way to…

House Prices, Bubbles and City Size

The authors of this article build a theoretical model that relates house price, city size and the expected future growth of demand for housing. The model combines the Alonso-Mills model on urban…
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Charted Choices 2011-2015 - Effects of nine election platforms on the economy and the environment

At the request of nine political parties, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency have mapped out the effects of the respective election…