Abstract Summary
Amsterdam has a housing shortage issue. To solve this problem, Amsterdam Municipality aims to provide 52.500 housing units by 2025. Reaching this number is achieved through newly constructed and repurposed houses converted from other functions. The comparison between these two strategies, at the building scale, is the focus of several important research, from the energy consumption in the construction process, to the structural features of the repurposed buildings and their compatibility with the housing plan. However, the urban scale has seldom been studied when comparing new and repurposed housing projects. In this research we test whether new and repurposed buildings have access different access to urban amenities, based on their location in the city. For this, we use the 15-minute city concept as a framework and measure access to amenities within a 15-minute walking distance from each housing project. Based on data from 554 residential buildings (38.061 housing units ) built between 2015 and 2019, we compare the number and diversity of amenities within 15-minute walkshed of repurposed and new house buildings. Our results contribute to policymakers and urban planners in evaluating how new and repurposed housing projects benefit from urban amenities.
