Frans Dieleman

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.

[4] According to William A. V. Clark (2004) Dieleman played a prominent role in the geographer community in The Netherlands.

[5] Clark summarized: 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.