Constance Uyttebrouck

Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research | LISER · Urban Development and Mobility

This research addresses the shared housing market, that is, large-scale developments targeting students and ‘young professionals’, equipped with shared spaces and services for the residents. This housing segment has emerged in response to young adults’ demand for flexible and affordable housing. It has developed in cities that concentrate students...

This paper addresses the governance of the ‘live-work mix’. This concept refers to the renewed intertwining of living and working activities in new housing and urban development in the context of welfare state restructuring, development of the knowledge economy and globalisation. Implementing live-work goals can be difficult because a consensus bet...

This paper examines the impact of institutional frameworks on ontologies of ‘live-work mix’, i.e., the renewed intertwining of residential and economic uses in urban developments. We aim to understand how local housing and planning regimes influence the nature of live-work mix by comparing three contrasting institutional frameworks (Amsterdam, Brus...

Local governments support community empowerment in urban neighbourhoods through citizens’ active participation in urban renewal. While specific actors implement empowerment goals using dedicated instruments, implementation gaps remain, partly due to a lack of knowledge of neighbourhood governance. Our study aims to understand the actors’ roles and...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Work from home (WFH) received much public attention. Imposing such a measure was feasible in the context of labour markets' flexibilisation, which has reshaped urban live-work relationships. However, the pandemic's effects on those relationships have rarely been explored in housing and planning studies. This paper draw...

Le Cahier de l’IBSA n°12 étudie l’évolution du travail à domicile avant et après la crise du Covid-19. Il quantifie la proportion de travailleurs à domicile, identifie les nouveaux profils de travailleurs post-crise, et évalue le potentiel d’augmentation du travail à domicile. The 'Cahier de l'IBSA' 12 studies the evolution of homework before and...

Cahier van het BISA nr. 12 maakt de balans op van de evolutie van thuiswerken voor en na de COVID-19-crisis. De publicatie kwantificeert het aandeel thuiswerkers, identificeert de nieuwe profielen van werknemers na de crisis en beoordeelt het potentieel voor nog meer thuiswerk. The 'Cahier de l'IBSA' 12 studies the evolution of homework before and...

Brussel (België) heeft de Covid-19 pandemie een katalyserende en legitimerende rol gespeeld in beleidshervormingen op het gebied van ruimtelijke ordening en regelgeving. De huidige hervorming van de Gewestelijke Stedenbouwkundige Verordening (GSV) is als 'good living' verpakt en schuift hoge ambities naar voor qua levenskwaliteit, mede door de flex...

In Brussels (Belgium), as in other parts of the world, the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated and legitimated changes in planning policy and regulation. The ongoing reform of Brussels’ regional planning regulations has been reframed as the ‘good living’ plan and has high ambitions to improve everyday quality of life, notably by setting more flexible...

The Covid-19 pandemic and related stay-at-home measures have genuinely impacted how and where we live and work in cities. Work from home was made compulsory for the workers able to do so. Imposing such a measure was made possible following a long process of labour markets’ flexibilization. The latter has contributed to reshaping live-work relations...

In the context of growing housing and urban commodification, shared-housing accommodations have been developed for specific target groups, including students and young professionals. Such developments have preferably emerged in urban environments, including second-tier, student cities where they play a strategic role in urban regeneration. We inves...

The renewed intertwining of living and working places is not a recent phenomenon. Enabled by the development of information and communication technologies and the advent of the knowledge economy, it has genuinely affected cities. For several years, cities have integrated mixed-use principles into their urban development strategies, and they have se...

The renewed intertwining of living and working places is not a recent phenomenon. Enabled by the development of information and communication technologies and the advent of the knowledge economy, it has genuinely affected cities. For several years, cities have integrated mixed-use principles into their urban development strategies, and they have se...

En Belgique, nombreux sont ceux qui ont été confrontés au télétravail intensif suite à la crise de la Covid-19. À partir de l’analyse de données individuelles de l’Enquête sur les Forces de Travail, notre recherche s’est attachée à approfondir les connaissances sur la propension au télétravail avant cette crise, en Belgique et à Bruxelles. Pour ce...

In Belgium, as in many other parts of the worlds, several workers have been confronted with extensive telework during the Covid-19 pandemic. Initially enabled under labour markets’ flexibilisation and the advent of information and communication technologies, telework has expanded over time. However, the diversity of teleworkers’ profiles and their...

Le logement partagé fait référence à des ensembles denses de petits logements équipés de services et d’espaces partagés utilisés pour travailler, facilitant ainsi la mixité logement-travail. Ce type de logement s’adresse principalement aux jeunes professionnels en quête de flexibilité. Dans cet article, les acteurs et instruments permettant de conc...

The ‘flexibilisation’ of labour markets has led to the blurring of the work and home spheres, which has had implications on housing and planning. This thesis addresses the ‘live-work mix’, that is, the renewed intertwining of living and working activities in new housing production and urban development. This phenomenon is related to the focus on ne...

Our working life has become increasingly flexible, so have our housing needs. The housing market has very well understood this paradigm shift and the private sector has started developing innovative housing concepts emphasizing new urban “live-work” lifestyles. In particular, housing developments delivering small dwellings with shared spaces and se...

This research conceptualizes spatial mutations and innovative practices occurring in buildings, at the interface between housing, the labour market and urban development. These mutations emerge in a context affected by demographic changes, the advent of ICT and Internet in office work and homes, and the development of so-called “New Ways of Working...

This paper aims to address the effects of labour market mutations on housing through an analysis of " spatial hybridization " , focusing on the qualitative comparison of Brussels and Amsterdam. The objective is to provide first elements of context, methodology and results of a wider ongoing research. In the first section, we highlight underlying tr...

Malgré des parcours de vie très variés, nous sommes tous confrontés à la nécessité de nous loger. La majorité des ménages belges fait le choix d’acheter un logement plutôt que de le louer. Quatre doctorants feront le point sur quatre étapes clés du parcours du citoyen pour un logement.

Hybrid places, combining living and professional activities within a same space, have emerged in a context of housing and labour market evolution. Regulatory devices are thus needed to mitigate risks related to social cohesion and urban development. An unregulated production of such places involves uncertainties in terms of mobility, which could en...

Today’s working life, in particular the development of mobile work and new working spaces, and the emerging social realities, influences housing quality and its evolution. It is hereby considered that work and living activities will increasingly tend to develop in shared spaces in the years to come, especially for activities related to the service...