
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- boonstra@essb.eur.nl
Profile
Dr. ir. Beitske Boonstra has expertise on active citizens and community initiatives in urban development and their interactions with (local) governments. Currently, Beitske works as academic researcher at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology on the project "Boundary spanning the sustainable city". This project investigates the skills and capacities of people who navigate across the boundaries of civic and public domains around issues of urban sustainability (a.k.a. city makers).
Previously, Beitske worked as doctoral-assistant in Spatial Planning at Ghent University, Department of Mobility and Spatial Planning (2016-2019) on civic initiatives and self-organization in spatial planning, partly funded by the H2020 project OpenHeritage on community-led adaptive re-use of heritage (2017-2019). From 2006-2016 she worked at TNO Strategy & Policy on technological, process and social innovation. She has been part-time Lecturer at the University of Groningen in 2016 (“City Matters: Philosophy and the City”) and Utrecht University in 2010 (“Beyond the Plan: An actor-relational approach to Spatial Planning).
Beitske holds a PhD in Regional and Urban Planning from Utrecht University (2015), with the thesis titled "Planning Strategies in an Age of Active Citizenship: A Post-structuralist Agenda for Self-organization in Spatial Planning", and a master degree in Urbanism from Delft University of Technology (2005).
Beitske is a Board Member of the Dutch-Belgium Plandag, Board Member of the re:Kreators network, Leader within Placemaking Europe, columnist for Archined and Coordinator of Kenniswerkplaats Leefbare Wijken Rotterdam.
Keywords: Spatial Planning; Civic initiatives; Urban Development; Self-organization; Complexity; Boundary Spanning; Sustainable Cities
- Beitske Boonstra (2022) - Een politieke keuze: wel of geen functionerende volkshuisvesting - [link]
- Beitske Boonstra (2022) - Rotterdamse veerkracht en maatschappelijke coalities in coronatijd
- Erik Snel, Roy Geurs, Ympkje Albeda, David ter Avest, Gideon Bolt, Jan de Boom, Beitske Boonstra, Ilona van Breugel, Gijs Custers, Wenda Doff, Tamar Fischer, Jeroen Frissen, Sander van der Ham, Kees Leidelmeijer, André Ouwehand, Matthijs Uyterlinde, Gabry Vanderveen, Karen Welp & Linda Zuijderwijk (2022) - Zicht op leefbaarheid: Tien essays over leefbaarheid in Rotterdamse wijken
- Stefanie Schuddebeurs, Naomi Rommens, Katja Rusinovic , Stephan van Berkel, Linda Zuijderwijk & Beitske Boonstra (2022) - Haagse placemaking in beeld: Een analyse van placemaking-initiatieven in Den Haag - [link]
- Naomi Rommens, Beitske Boonstra, Stefanie Schuddebeurs, Wenda Doff & Katja Rusinovic (2022) - Placemaking ontrafeld: Een literatuurstudie naar de vele dimensies van placemaking - [link]
- Stefano Rozzoni, Beitske Boonstra & Teresa Cutler-Broyles (2022) - Re-imagining spaces and places: Interdisciplinary essays on the relationship between identity, space, and place
- Beitske Boonstra, Teresa Cutler-Broyles & Stefano Rozzoni (2022) - Conclusion: Moving Homes - Moving Bodies - Moving Minds
- Beitske Boonstra (2022) - Dancing Your Way Through: An Explorative Study of City-Making Skills
- Beitske Boonstra, Teresa Cutler-Broyles & Stefano Rozzoni (2022) - Introduction: Moving Spaces and Places
- Beitske Boonstra, Teresa Cutler-Broyles & Stefano Rozzoni (2022) - Moving Spaces and Places: Interdisciplinary Essays on Transformative Movements through Space, Place, and Time
- Karim van Knippenberg & Beitske Boonstra (2021) - Co-evolutionary heritage reuse: A European multiple case study perspective - European Planning Studies - doi: 10.1080/09654313.2021.2019684 - [link]
- Beitske Boonstra & Naomi Rommens (2021) - Veerkracht verbinden: een theoretische uiteenzetting: Working Papers Sociale en institutionele veerkracht ten tijde van COVID-19 in Rotterdam - [link]
- Karim van Knippenberg, Beitske Boonstra & Luuk Boelens (2021) - Communities, heritage and planning: Towards a co-evolutionary heritage approach - Planning Theory and Practice, 23 (1), 26-42 - doi: 10.1080/14649357.2021.1998584 - [link]
- Katja Rusinovic, Hasse Van der Veen, Denise Jonker & Beitske Boonstra (2021) - De solidaire stad: Maatschappelijke initiatieven in coronatijd - [link]
- Beitske Boonstra & Sophie Claessens (2021) - Maatschappelijke coalities in coronatijd: Van spontaan initiatief naar duurzaam samenwerkingsverband - [link]
- Beitske Boonstra & Ward Rauws (2021) - Ontological diversity in urban self-organization: Complexity, critical realism and post-structuralism - Planning Theory, 20 (4), 303-324 - doi: 10.1177/1473095221992392 - [link]
- A Schwarz, Beitske Boonstra & Jurian Edelenbos (2021) - Ervaringen uit de corona-tijd: Een quickscan van kwetsbaarheden en transformatie in Rotterdams beleid en onderzoek
2.7 & 2.8 Research Project
- Jaar
- 2022
- Course Code
- FSWSB-2070
3.7 Bachelor Project
- Jaar
- 2022
- Course Code
- FSWC-3070
4.3 Thesis/researchproject Master GMCS
- Jaar
- 2022
- Course Code
- FSWBM-3050