This paper explores the relationship between the planning environment and investment in commercial and industrial buildings in the Netherlands. Most past research on the impact of the planning environment on outcomes in real estate markets has investigated the impact of regulation on (house)...

To date, systematic evaluations of regeneration policies and programs for deprived and run-down urban areas which examine whether policy objectives are actually achieved and to what extent this was due to the implementation of that policy or program have been scarce. The dearth of...

The Netherlands like most western countries has witnessed a strong rise in small businesses of non-western migrants in recent years. This phenomenon has been particularly observable in disadvantaged multicultural neighbourhoods of the major cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht....