François Marinus Dieleman was a Dutch geographer, Professor in Urban and Rural Geography at the Utrecht University known for his work in the fields of urban geography and the geography of housing.
Education
After studying social geography at the VU University Amsterdam in Amsterdam, where he graduated with honors, Dieleman continued his doctoral study at the University of Wisconsin. In 1978 he graduated from the University with a thesis entitled ""Een analyse van spreidingspatronen van vestigingen en van werkgelegenheidsgebieden in Tilburg en Eindhoven: een methodisch-technische studie" (An analysis of distribution patterns of branches and employment areas in Tilburg and Eindhoven: a methodical-technical study).
Career
Dieleman"s started his academic career in 1969 at the VU University Amsterdam in the Department of Urban and Rural Geography of Western countries, which was part of the Geographic and Planning Institute of the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. Sequentially from 1981 to 2003 he was a Professor in Urban and Rural Geography at the Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University. The last two years of his live he worked as Professor of Methods, Techniques and System Innovation in Spatial Planning at Delft University of Technology.
Late 1980s Dieleman and Hugo Priemus initiated the Netherlands Graduate School for Housing and Urban Research (NETHUR) in which the universities of Utrecht, Delft and Amsterdam worked together.
Dieleman directed NETHUR until 1998. Later in Delft he was also affiliated with the Institute for Spatial Research.
His research contributions are inextricably bound up with our work on housing and residential mobility, and in association with Rinus Deurloo he made major contributions to how we think about neighborhoods, and communities, and our progress through these neighborhoods. He was a stimulating and unflagging research contributor and our joint work - Households and Housing: Choices and Outcomes in the Housing Market - is a summary of much of his thinking about housing and residential mobility.
And furthermore: His contributions to both theoretical and policy issues in housing were presented at the biannual meetings of the European Network of Housing Research.
, and Clara H., Martin Dijst, and Guillaume Burghouwt.