B-REL Final Report, Brussels, Belgium, KU Leuven & VUB, research report prepared for Innoviris, 2020
This research project starts from the observation that people from middle and higher income groups leave the Brussel Capital Region and that this erodes the fiscal base of the region. The overall aim of this project is to motivate these groups to stay in Brussels as well as to attract interesting newcomers. In this project we examine the actual dwelling environments in Brussels, but also the perception by people of Brussels as a living environment. These material and mental conditions are linked together by means of an analysis of socio-economic and cultural conditions that affect people’s decisions to move or stay. Within this research project, the objective of the Cosmopolis research team is to gain insight in people’s aspirations and motives to move/stay in/leave Brussels in relation to the dwelling environments in those areas, mainly from an architectural and urbanist perspective.