Christian Kesteloot
Biographic Data
| ID | 905968 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Kesteloot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Kesteloot |
| SIGNATURE | KESTELOOT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4305-096X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 151 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The interaction between local state and village collective in China’s market-oriented land reform
Daily Mobility, Livelihoods and Transport Policies in Kampala, Uganda
In order to construct a suitable transport policy, based on the needs of the inhabitants and city users, planners have to be aware of the needs of urban residents. In this research, Hägerstrand’s space‐time geography is used to understand constraints that individuals from contrasting livelihoods experience regarding their daily mobility in Kampala. To carry out economic activities, both poor and non‐poor face the need to travel, but moving in the…
Social inequalities
Observations Economic and cultural globalisation The Brussels Capital Region has experienced a significant period of economic growth over the past few decades. The service sector has been particularly responsible for this economic performance, largely comprising the European, federal and regional administrations. However, overseas investments in the service sector have also been an important factor. In broad terms, Brussels has 2 000 foreign comp…
Inégalités sociales
Constats Globalisation économique et culturelle La décennie qui vient de s’écouler fut, pour la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, une période de croissance économique impressionnante, essentiellement dans le secteur des services. Ceux-ci comprennent essentiellement les administrations européennes, fédérales et régionales, mais les investissements étrangers y jouent également un rôle important. En gros, Bruxelles compte près de 2 000 entreprises étran…
Sociale ongelijkheden
Vaststellingen: globale maatschappelijke ontwikkeling en effecten op Brussel Economische en culturele globalisering Het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest kende het afgelopen decennia een indrukwekkende economische bloeiperiode. Vooral de dienstensector zorgt voor deze economische prestaties. Deze bestaat voor een groot deel uit de Europese, federale en regionale administraties. Belangrijk zijn echter ook de buitenlandse investeringen in de dienstens…
Air quality from a social perspective in four European metropolitan areas
High‐Speed Rail and Rural Livelihood
China has started to develop the world's largest high‐speed rail network in the twenty‐first century with the general aims of developing the economy and increasing environmental sustainability. Meanwhile economic reforms have created massive movements of rural workers towards urban labour markets. The co‐existence of these movements with a HSR network raises the question about the impacts of the HSR on rural migrants and the livelihoods in their …
Theorising Chinese urbanisation
Urbanisation in China and its rapid increase in recent decades as a result of industrialisation and globalisation are often conceived as a simplified process. Moreover, the speed of the present day process yields the impression that the traces of previous forms of urbanisation are erased for good. Both of these assumptions are challenged in this paper. The built environment resulting from this urbanisation process is to be conceived as a series o…
Housing Projects for Low‐Income Groups and Modes of Economic Integration
The housing of low‐income groups in G reater C airo has always been difficult. However, the general shortage in housing supply is contrasting with the low occupancy rate of newly constructed public housing units. In contrast, despite their bad living conditions, informal settlements have a high occupancy rate. In order to analyse the reasons behind this contradiction, the paper compares four neighbourhoods ranging from formal and semi‐informal to…
Socio-spatial Inequalities and Social Cohesion in European Cities
This paper addresses the increasing socio-spatial inequalities in European cities and their impact on the possibilities for fostering social cohesion. Many policy programmes tackle spatial unevenness in order to build more cohesive communities. These policies have some impact, but their effect on reducing inequalities at city level is limited. Therefore, an important question is how the overall socio-spatial organisation of European cities affect…
Social Mix and Passive Revolution. A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Social Mix Rhetoric in Flanders, Belgium
Belgium's housing policy has always been instrumental in the pillarisation process. As a consequence, two competing historical models have existed: first, a model promoted by the socialist pillar based on social rental housing in urban settings; second, the model put forward by the hegemonic Catholic party, emphasising the promotion of homeownership of single-family dwellings in rural settings. When this second, anti-urban model, became the main …
Poverty and Residential Environment in Nanjing
In China the transition between two economic systems is accompanied by an increase of inequalities and the creation of new forms of poverty and social marginalization. The responsible factors can be viewed as the result of the overlap between recent reforms and socially and spatially inherited urban structures. We studied these questions in the context of Nanjing, an eastern Chinese city affected by the course of fast social and economic changes.…
A Geography of Gender Relations
Stuyck K., Luyten S., Kesteloot C., Meert H. and Peleman K. A geography of gender relations: role patterns in the context of different regional industrial development, Regional Studies. Feminist geographers state that gender relations produce spatial structures and that, in turn, these structures help to maintain these relations. In order to explore this idea, the paper considers the household role pattern of women in two different economic regio…
Revitalizing the City in an Anti-Urban Context
After the 1995 elections, Flanders' first Minister of Urban Policy was appointed. The development of an urban policy during the second half of the 1990s in this region is incontestably linked to the election victories of the extreme right party, Vlaams Blok, in the bigger cities (particularly Antwerp and Gent). After a brief presentation of the geography of local elections, we try to explain this. This involves making the links between long-term …
Brussels, a truncated metropolis
Brussels
Socialisation et marginalisation des jeunes de la zone défavorisée de Bruxelles, un accès différencié à l'école
L'article analyse les processus socio-spatiaux de marginalisation des jeunes à Bruxelles, en partant de la forte relation entre concentration de jeunes issus de l'immigration et degré de pauvreté des quartiers. Ces quartiers concentrent la future génération de la population urbaine et sont au centre des processus de polarisation et d'exclusion sociale. Les premiers résultats d'une étude sur l'exclusion sociale des jeunes et la délinquance à Bruxe…
Housing Turks and Moroccans in Brussels and Amsterdam
In this paper, the settlement patterns of Turks and Moroccans in Brussels will be compared with the patterns of the same groups in Amsterdam. It will be argued that housing market variables explain a lot of the differences between the two cities. The large number of (affordable) social dwellings in Amsterdam forms a significant contrast with the virtual lack of these dwellings in the Brussels area. Historical variables account for these different…
Minorities in West European Cities
Foreigners in Brussels 1981–1991
This contribution considers the spatial distribution of foreigners in Brussels. Fifteen nationalities are considered, among which a group of affluent foreigners linked to the international functions of the city (EU Capital and NATO headquarters) and a poor group whose beginnings can be traced to the ‘guestworkers’ immigration in the late sixties and early seventies. Firstly, the population structure of Brussels and the position of its foreigners …
The Geography of Survival
The rise of poverty in Western societies can be explained by three socio‐economic processes: the dualisation and polarisation of the labour market, the dismantling of the welfare state, and the increase of new types of households like single parents and singles. These processes are interrelated and they lead towards different mechanisms of social exclusion. This article stresses that not everyone excluded from the labour market, welfare provision…
From ethnic minority niche to assimilation
A 25‐year observation of Turkish restaurants in the heart of the Turkish neighbourhood of Brussels shows considerable changes in the characteristics of the restaurants and in their location. Both dimensions of change are interrelated and are explained on the one hand by strategies of ethnic minority entrepreneurship and on the other by the Hotelling effect
Polarisation socio-spatiale et stratégies de survie dans deux quartiers bruxellois
Socio-Spatial Polarisation and Survival Strategies in two Brussels' Neighbourhoods. Socio-spatial polarisation in the Brussels urban region can be dealt with at three levels at which different spatial processes are operating. The first level operates to distinguish the city from its periphery and results from the economic growth and suburbanisation of the 1960s. The second level of polarisation occurs within Brussels itself and relates to mechani…
L'espace des inégalités scolaires à Bruxelles
La géographie des inégalités scolaires à Bruxelles, exprimées par les taux de scolarisation, les navettes scolaires, ainsi que les retards et les abandons scolaires, correspond bien à la structure sociale de l'espace urbain, ce qui représente une facette du rôle de l'espace dans la reproduction sociale. La politique de Zones d'Education Prioritaires récemment mise en place ne tient cependant pas assez compte de l'étendue géographique des problème…
Les migrations internationales en Europe Occidentale durant les années quatre-vingt
Pendant les annees 80, les migrations internes se sont liberalisees en Europe. Les societes multinationales resolvent leur probleme d'emploi a hautes qualifications par la migration professionnelle au sein de leur organisation. L'Europe continue a recevoir des flux d'immigrants et certains pays mediterraneens continuent a fournir des migrants au Nouveau Monde
Socio-spatial Inequalities and Social Cohesion in European Cities
This paper addresses the increasing socio-spatial inequalities in European cities and their impact on the possibilities for fostering social cohesion. Many policy programmes tackle spatial unevenness in order to build more cohesive communities. These policies have some impact, but their effect on reducing inequalities at city level is limited. Therefore, an important question is how the overall socio-spatial organisation of European cities affect…
Housing Turks and Moroccans in Brussels and Amsterdam
In this paper, the settlement patterns of Turks and Moroccans in Brussels will be compared with the patterns of the same groups in Amsterdam. It will be argued that housing market variables explain a lot of the differences between the two cities. The large number of (affordable) social dwellings in Amsterdam forms a significant contrast with the virtual lack of these dwellings in the Brussels area. Historical variables account for these different…
Revitalizing the City in an Anti-Urban Context
After the 1995 elections, Flanders' first Minister of Urban Policy was appointed. The development of an urban policy during the second half of the 1990s in this region is incontestably linked to the election victories of the extreme right party, Vlaams Blok, in the bigger cities (particularly Antwerp and Gent). After a brief presentation of the geography of local elections, we try to explain this. This involves making the links between long-term …
Theorising Chinese urbanisation
Urbanisation in China and its rapid increase in recent decades as a result of industrialisation and globalisation are often conceived as a simplified process. Moreover, the speed of the present day process yields the impression that the traces of previous forms of urbanisation are erased for good. Both of these assumptions are challenged in this paper. The built environment resulting from this urbanisation process is to be conceived as a series o…
The Geography of Survival
The rise of poverty in Western societies can be explained by three socio‐economic processes: the dualisation and polarisation of the labour market, the dismantling of the welfare state, and the increase of new types of households like single parents and singles. These processes are interrelated and they lead towards different mechanisms of social exclusion. This article stresses that not everyone excluded from the labour market, welfare provision…
From ethnic minority niche to assimilation
A 25‐year observation of Turkish restaurants in the heart of the Turkish neighbourhood of Brussels shows considerable changes in the characteristics of the restaurants and in their location. Both dimensions of change are interrelated and are explained on the one hand by strategies of ethnic minority entrepreneurship and on the other by the Hotelling effect
Social Mix and Passive Revolution. A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Social Mix Rhetoric in Flanders, Belgium
Belgium's housing policy has always been instrumental in the pillarisation process. As a consequence, two competing historical models have existed: first, a model promoted by the socialist pillar based on social rental housing in urban settings; second, the model put forward by the hegemonic Catholic party, emphasising the promotion of homeownership of single-family dwellings in rural settings. When this second, anti-urban model, became the main …
A Geography of Gender Relations
Stuyck K., Luyten S., Kesteloot C., Meert H. and Peleman K. A geography of gender relations: role patterns in the context of different regional industrial development, Regional Studies. Feminist geographers state that gender relations produce spatial structures and that, in turn, these structures help to maintain these relations. In order to explore this idea, the paper considers the household role pattern of women in two different economic regio…
Brussels, a truncated metropolis
Foreigners in Brussels 1981–1991
This contribution considers the spatial distribution of foreigners in Brussels. Fifteen nationalities are considered, among which a group of affluent foreigners linked to the international functions of the city (EU Capital and NATO headquarters) and a poor group whose beginnings can be traced to the ‘guestworkers’ immigration in the late sixties and early seventies. Firstly, the population structure of Brussels and the position of its foreigners …
High‐Speed Rail and Rural Livelihood
China has started to develop the world's largest high‐speed rail network in the twenty‐first century with the general aims of developing the economy and increasing environmental sustainability. Meanwhile economic reforms have created massive movements of rural workers towards urban labour markets. The co‐existence of these movements with a HSR network raises the question about the impacts of the HSR on rural migrants and the livelihoods in their …
Daily Mobility, Livelihoods and Transport Policies in Kampala, Uganda
In order to construct a suitable transport policy, based on the needs of the inhabitants and city users, planners have to be aware of the needs of urban residents. In this research, Hägerstrand’s space‐time geography is used to understand constraints that individuals from contrasting livelihoods experience regarding their daily mobility in Kampala. To carry out economic activities, both poor and non‐poor face the need to travel, but moving in the…
Minorities in West European Cities
Concentration d'étrangers et politique urbaine à Bruxelles
Concentration d'étrangers et politique urbaine à Bruxelles. Christian KESTELOOT Dans une première partie, l'article considère la répartition des étrangers par nationalité dans l'agglomération bruxelloise et son évolution entre 1970 et 1981. Les indices de dissimilarité entre les nationalités et leur indice de ségrégation sont également analysés pour les deux années. Malgré l'augmentation de leur nombre, la concentration des nationalités de travai…
Les zones résidentielles d'après-guerre et les marchés de logement locaux aux Pays-Bas
L'enquête néerlandaise sur les besoins en logements de 1980 sert ici à comparer le développement du logement d'après-guerre dans les quatre grandes villes, les villes moyennes et les communes suburbaines des Pays-Bas. Une analyse générale du système national de logement depuis 1945, caractérisé par une importante intervention de l'Etat - souvent par l'intermédiaire de règlements communaux, permet de décrire la composition différente du parc de lo…
Le développement des villes et l'urbanisation en Chine rurale
Les dimensions historique et structurelle de la différenciation sociale de l'espace urbain
The historical and structural dimensions of the social differentiation of urban space: the case of Brussels. The historical dimension of residential space describes the present-day situation in terms of historical forms of organisation of urban space. These forms have changed with the mode of reproduction of the labour force during the three periods of economic growth since the industrial revolution. The structural dimension refers to the organis…
L'espace des inégalités scolaires à Bruxelles
La géographie des inégalités scolaires à Bruxelles, exprimées par les taux de scolarisation, les navettes scolaires, ainsi que les retards et les abandons scolaires, correspond bien à la structure sociale de l'espace urbain, ce qui représente une facette du rôle de l'espace dans la reproduction sociale. La politique de Zones d'Education Prioritaires récemment mise en place ne tient cependant pas assez compte de l'étendue géographique des problème…
Les migrations internationales en Europe Occidentale durant les années quatre-vingt
Pendant les annees 80, les migrations internes se sont liberalisees en Europe. Les societes multinationales resolvent leur probleme d'emploi a hautes qualifications par la migration professionnelle au sein de leur organisation. L'Europe continue a recevoir des flux d'immigrants et certains pays mediterraneens continuent a fournir des migrants au Nouveau Monde
Polarisation socio-spatiale et stratégies de survie dans deux quartiers bruxellois
Socio-Spatial Polarisation and Survival Strategies in two Brussels' Neighbourhoods. Socio-spatial polarisation in the Brussels urban region can be dealt with at three levels at which different spatial processes are operating. The first level operates to distinguish the city from its periphery and results from the economic growth and suburbanisation of the 1960s. The second level of polarisation occurs within Brussels itself and relates to mechani…
Minorities in West European Cities
Foreigners in Brussels 1981–1991
This contribution considers the spatial distribution of foreigners in Brussels. Fifteen nationalities are considered, among which a group of affluent foreigners linked to the international functions of the city (EU Capital and NATO headquarters) and a poor group whose beginnings can be traced to the ‘guestworkers’ immigration in the late sixties and early seventies. Firstly, the population structure of Brussels and the position of its foreigners …
The Geography of Survival
The rise of poverty in Western societies can be explained by three socio‐economic processes: the dualisation and polarisation of the labour market, the dismantling of the welfare state, and the increase of new types of households like single parents and singles. These processes are interrelated and they lead towards different mechanisms of social exclusion. This article stresses that not everyone excluded from the labour market, welfare provision…
From ethnic minority niche to assimilation
A 25‐year observation of Turkish restaurants in the heart of the Turkish neighbourhood of Brussels shows considerable changes in the characteristics of the restaurants and in their location. Both dimensions of change are interrelated and are explained on the one hand by strategies of ethnic minority entrepreneurship and on the other by the Hotelling effect
Socialisation et marginalisation des jeunes de la zone défavorisée de Bruxelles, un accès différencié à l'école
L'article analyse les processus socio-spatiaux de marginalisation des jeunes à Bruxelles, en partant de la forte relation entre concentration de jeunes issus de l'immigration et degré de pauvreté des quartiers. Ces quartiers concentrent la future génération de la population urbaine et sont au centre des processus de polarisation et d'exclusion sociale. Les premiers résultats d'une étude sur l'exclusion sociale des jeunes et la délinquance à Bruxe…
Housing Turks and Moroccans in Brussels and Amsterdam
In this paper, the settlement patterns of Turks and Moroccans in Brussels will be compared with the patterns of the same groups in Amsterdam. It will be argued that housing market variables explain a lot of the differences between the two cities. The large number of (affordable) social dwellings in Amsterdam forms a significant contrast with the virtual lack of these dwellings in the Brussels area. Historical variables account for these different…
Brussels
Brussels, a truncated metropolis
Revitalizing the City in an Anti-Urban Context
After the 1995 elections, Flanders' first Minister of Urban Policy was appointed. The development of an urban policy during the second half of the 1990s in this region is incontestably linked to the election victories of the extreme right party, Vlaams Blok, in the bigger cities (particularly Antwerp and Gent). After a brief presentation of the geography of local elections, we try to explain this. This involves making the links between long-term …
A Geography of Gender Relations
Stuyck K., Luyten S., Kesteloot C., Meert H. and Peleman K. A geography of gender relations: role patterns in the context of different regional industrial development, Regional Studies. Feminist geographers state that gender relations produce spatial structures and that, in turn, these structures help to maintain these relations. In order to explore this idea, the paper considers the household role pattern of women in two different economic regio…
Poverty and Residential Environment in Nanjing
In China the transition between two economic systems is accompanied by an increase of inequalities and the creation of new forms of poverty and social marginalization. The responsible factors can be viewed as the result of the overlap between recent reforms and socially and spatially inherited urban structures. We studied these questions in the context of Nanjing, an eastern Chinese city affected by the course of fast social and economic changes.…
Social Mix and Passive Revolution. A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Social Mix Rhetoric in Flanders, Belgium
Belgium's housing policy has always been instrumental in the pillarisation process. As a consequence, two competing historical models have existed: first, a model promoted by the socialist pillar based on social rental housing in urban settings; second, the model put forward by the hegemonic Catholic party, emphasising the promotion of homeownership of single-family dwellings in rural settings. When this second, anti-urban model, became the main …
Socio-spatial Inequalities and Social Cohesion in European Cities
This paper addresses the increasing socio-spatial inequalities in European cities and their impact on the possibilities for fostering social cohesion. Many policy programmes tackle spatial unevenness in order to build more cohesive communities. These policies have some impact, but their effect on reducing inequalities at city level is limited. Therefore, an important question is how the overall socio-spatial organisation of European cities affect…
Housing Projects for Low‐Income Groups and Modes of Economic Integration
The housing of low‐income groups in G reater C airo has always been difficult. However, the general shortage in housing supply is contrasting with the low occupancy rate of newly constructed public housing units. In contrast, despite their bad living conditions, informal settlements have a high occupancy rate. In order to analyse the reasons behind this contradiction, the paper compares four neighbourhoods ranging from formal and semi‐informal to…
Theorising Chinese urbanisation
Urbanisation in China and its rapid increase in recent decades as a result of industrialisation and globalisation are often conceived as a simplified process. Moreover, the speed of the present day process yields the impression that the traces of previous forms of urbanisation are erased for good. Both of these assumptions are challenged in this paper. The built environment resulting from this urbanisation process is to be conceived as a series o…
Social inequalities
Observations Economic and cultural globalisation The Brussels Capital Region has experienced a significant period of economic growth over the past few decades. The service sector has been particularly responsible for this economic performance, largely comprising the European, federal and regional administrations. However, overseas investments in the service sector have also been an important factor. In broad terms, Brussels has 2 000 foreign comp…
Inégalités sociales
Constats Globalisation économique et culturelle La décennie qui vient de s’écouler fut, pour la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, une période de croissance économique impressionnante, essentiellement dans le secteur des services. Ceux-ci comprennent essentiellement les administrations européennes, fédérales et régionales, mais les investissements étrangers y jouent également un rôle important. En gros, Bruxelles compte près de 2 000 entreprises étran…
Sociale ongelijkheden
Vaststellingen: globale maatschappelijke ontwikkeling en effecten op Brussel Economische en culturele globalisering Het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest kende het afgelopen decennia een indrukwekkende economische bloeiperiode. Vooral de dienstensector zorgt voor deze economische prestaties. Deze bestaat voor een groot deel uit de Europese, federale en regionale administraties. Belangrijk zijn echter ook de buitenlandse investeringen in de dienstens…
Economics (18 works) · Geography (18 works) · Political science (18 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Economic geography (13 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Art (7 works) · Economy (7 works) · Humanities (7 works) · China (6 works)