We're a group of five students from Roosevelt Academy enrolled in the Urban Geography course of professor Tasan-Kok. This blog is meant for our classmates and we'll regularly post about the progress of our research project here.

maandag 23 april 2012

Done!

                                       

Aaaannndd we're done. Exactly 6 minutes after the deadline, but still. This is kind of what our desks looked like all this time. We're proud of what we've accomplished. After weeks of hard work this is our paper: "Implications of Property-led Wealth Creation: A case study of Het Eilandje, Antwerp and Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam", existing of 30 pages. Enjoy!

The Wealth-Creation group.

dinsdag 10 april 2012

Only 9 days left..


Time is running out! We have 9 days before our report on property-led wealth creation has to be handed in. That's why we met up tonight to discuss the final outline of our paper. Because we are writing this paper with five people, we need to have a good coordination of who is responsible for what. First of all, our paper is going to look like this:

Introduction: aim and hypothesis

What is property-led wealth creation exactly?

Description of case study 1: Antwerp, and of Case Study 2: Rotterdam

The results of our research gathered from literature and field trips

Conclusion: What project yielded better results and why?

The introduction will be written by Sophie, 't Eilandje area will be described by Lisa and Levi and Jacqueline and Irene will take care of Rotterdam-Zuid. We expect to have our parts done by Monday, so we can go over them on Tuesday and if necessary finalize them on Wednesday. We'll keep you posted!

maandag 2 april 2012

Kop van Zuid

    
On Wednesday we visited Rotterdam for the second part of our project. It was in many ways a more convenient day than the day we spent in Antwerp. The weather was nice, we knew what we had to do and one of our group members was familiar with the neighbourhood that we were investigating. The project in Kop van Zuid has been finished for some years now and the difference with the still developing Eilandje area in Antwerpen couldn’t have been bigger.