
Femke van NoorloosUtrecht University | UU · Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning
Femke van Noorloos
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Assisted self-help housing is a process whereby people are actively involved in the decision-making of their homes’ consolidation, receiving tools to better manage resources in building them. While such support is embedded within urban and regional systems, evolving forms of state intervention have received little attention in the literature. In th...
Rural Land Value Capture (LVC), particularly that obtained from rural collective-owned land, is an important policy instrument for local government public financing. In China, rural LVC faces a significant change, as rural land marketization reform has been launched and local governments have been increasingly restricted in expropriating rural coll...
Incremental housing drives urbanization worldwide, and is recognized as the basis for socially relevant solutions to housing shortages in the global South. However, scholarship on incremental housing continues to focus largely on tenure, building materials and housing conditions at a local level, while incremental housing is embedded in – and depen...
Understanding stakeholder power relations—such as between land sellers, land buyers, and local governments—is crucial to understanding Land Value Capture (LVC). While scholars have focused on stakeholder relationships through approaches such as stakeholder salience, stakeholder interaction, stakeholder value network, and stakeholder multiplicity, m...
Consortia of investors, developers and architects, sometimes in collaboration with national governments, have proposed a number of new utopian urban megaprojects or 'new cities' across Africa. While such speculative, planned forms of satellite urbanization increasingly gain attention in urban development debates, empirical evidence on their impacts...
Africa is rapidly urbanizing. New dynamics of investments and mobilities ensure expansive urbanization, transforming the continent's urban land and built environment. These changes also impact future prospects for sustainable living conditions for African urban dwellers. This issue of Built Environment has collected articles that observe these chan...
On the heels of the rural ‘land grab’ debate, the ongoing urban transition combined with large-scale urban infrastructure investments and land scarcity forces us to also pay more attention to issues of land in urban discussions. Yet how can we conceptualise land-related problems in order to connect and integrate rural and urban debates in overarchi...
When the refugee ‘crisis’ is referred to the focus is usually placed on large and uncontrollable flows of refugees coming to Europe. The real ‘crisis’, at least in terms of numbers, however clearly takes place somewhere else. In Lebanon 19% of the current population consists of Syrian refugees. In Europe this is only 0,06%. Apart from the fact that...
The EU aims to establish 'deals' with third countries: political packages which encompass clear targets and joint commitments. A 'win-win-win' situation is envisaged by combining different policy elements beyond migration, such as trade and development. This article aims to contribute to the debate about 'new' migration partnerships by looking back...
New private property investments in Africa’s cities are on the rise, and they often take the form of entirely new cities built up from scratch as comprehensively planned self-contained enclaves. As these new city-making trajectories are expanding and empirical research is emerging, there is a need to provide more conceptual clarity. We systematical...
This paper scrutinizes current processes of urban fragmentation, segregation, and exclusion that result from the increasing flows of capital in gated communities, walled-off condominiums, and similar exclusivist investment hubs in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. Gated community-like developments are growing and spreading into new areas. Altho...
This article aims to contribute to current discussions about “making cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable” (SDG 11) by linking debates that are currently taking place in separate containers: debates on the “global land rush” and the “new urban agenda”. It highlights some important processes that are overlooked in these debates and adv...
The global ‘land grab’ debate is going urban and needs a specific conceptual framework to analyze the diverse
modalities through which land commodification and speculation are transforming cities across the globe. This
article identifies new avenues for research on urban land issues by drawing on an extensive body of academic
literature and concret...
Globalization and changing mobility patterns have significantly altered the urban landscapes of Latin America over the past decades. Efforts by the state and the private sector to regenerate urban areas and free up land for the sake of investment and wealthy city dwellers have shaped processes of privatization and socio-spatial segregation. While '...
Current patterns of"move-in move-out" hypermobility are perfectly exemplified by residential tourism: the temporary or permanent mobility of relatively well-to-do citizens from mostly western countries to a variety of tourist destinations, where they buy property. The mobility of residential tourists does not stand alone, but has broader chain effe...
Costa Rica has recently seen its tourism industry change with the arrival of residential tourism. Neo-liberal policies aimed at attracting foreign direct investment have played a large role in this change; and the ‘foreignization’ and privatization of land has been the result. Femke van Noorloos examines how the north-western coast of Costa Rica ha...
The complexity of recent residential tourism growth on Costa Rica's coasts calls for new approaches that address this phenomenon and its implications in a more mobile and translocal way. In this paper one growing residential tourism destination is analysed as a transnational networked space. The focus is on three flows or corridors that have enable...
The past two decades have seen the steady emergence of various bilateral and multilateral migration agreements between Europe and migrant-sending countries in the global South.
This article provides a critical assessment of the way the EU – and individual countries such as Spain, France and Italy – have played active roles in reshaping old and deve...