Print Email Facebook Twitter Exploring resident-empowered meetingplaces in Dutch neighbourhoods Title Exploring resident-empowered meetingplaces in Dutch neighbourhoods: by Jane Jacobs Walking Action-research methodology Author Sanders, F.C. (TU Delft Environmental Technology and Design) Date 2016 Abstract The ‘Jane Jacobs Walk’ organization as one of the Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) heritage initiative supported three Jane Jacobs Walks of certified Fred Sanders in the period 2011 - 2014 in Amsterdam neighbourhoods. These walks helped residents to explore resident-empowered meeting-places and activities in their own housing environment for the benefit of community living-quality for themselves and others all spirited by Jane Jacobs her thoughts. These walks can methodological be seen as a form actionresearch by which the participating residents analyze their own data of experiences and insights. From the three Jane Jacob Walks organized (added to the results of my dissertation as the ‘body of knowledge’) (Sanders, 2014) the conclusions are: 1. Residents favor nearby and lifestyle coupled meeting-places, 2. Beside the by the municipality organized meeting-places there are many so called ‘free’ meeting-placesavailable, 3. Less of all these meeting-places suite youngsters, foreign people and unemployed people, and 4. Residents are willing to organize meeting-place even to manage subsidizing still a financial support from the municipality is essential. The effect of the ‘talking by walking’ could be optimized by involvingmore youngsters. ‘Jane Jacobs Walks’ as example of action-research could methodological be optimized by testing the results in a pilot-neighbourhood. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:382eb4b4-4bef-4188-ab94-c15cc5bcdc2c Source Jane Jacobs 100: Her legacy and relevance in the 21st Century, TU Delft, 24-25 May 2016 Event Jane Jacobs 100: Her legacy and relevance in the 21st Century, 2016-05-24 → 2016-05-25, TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2016 F.C. Sanders Files PDF 2016_05_JJacobs100_Urb_Sp ... i_FS01.pdf 1.61 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:382eb4b4-4bef-4188-ab94-c15cc5bcdc2c/datastream/OBJ/view