Jessica Verheij

How to plan for the green and dense city? My research focuses on how densification and urban greening are combined in inner-city development and how densification shapes who gains access to urban green spaces and who does not. More specifically, I understand urban green spaces as commons resources that are affected by densification through changes in property rights. I apply a new institutionalist approach based on the Institutional Resource Regime (IRR) framework, combining a property lens with public policy analysis and paying attention to power dynamics in urban development. Based on this approach, I ask how processes of densification function as a driver for the (re)production of socio-environmental inequalities.