Overview and recommendation on urban densification potential in Liège, Belgium

peer reviewed ; Belgium, like many European Countries, has a serious challenge in the housing sector. The Federal planning bureau estimates the increase of population by one million inhabitants by 2030, which represent 600.000 additional family requiring accesses to new housing facilities. Population ageing (mainly due to increasing life expectancy) combined with a constant growing rate of individuals living in collective households, leads to a substantial increase of demand of collective households (Vandresse & Bureau, 2013). This highlights a substantial challenge underlined mainly in th... Mehr ...