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Currently, the growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the most important indicator of the performance of the economy and employment. However, this indicator says little about what economic growth or decline ...
The Past Futures of Cities and Mobility: A View From Two Capitals of Modernity
18 Feb 2021
15:30 - 16:30
Event
During this Zoom seminar, Carlos López Galviz (Lancaster) will examine the relationship between new transport and mobility technologies in London and Paris during the nineteenth century. All are welcome to attend.
The Post-Mobile City? Discovering possibilities for the Good Life in Dutch cities during covid-19
27 Jan 2021
18:00 - 19:30
Event
Contemporary cities and urban lifestyles are fundamentally dependent on mobility. Being on the move became a key element of the Good Life as many urban dwellers understand it today. This constitutes a serious problem ...
Urban Dialogue #3: Sustainable Urbanization Practices in European Regions
26 Jan 2021
16:00 - 17:00
Event
In the third edition of the Urban Dialogue Series, David Evers will present the ESPON project ‘Sustainable Urbanization Practices in European Regions’ (SUPER). This project sought to measure land use changes in ...
Critical Perspectives on Governance by Sustainable Development Goals
26 Jan 2021 - 27 Jan 2021
09:00 - 17:00
Event
The Centre for Sustainable Development Studies (CSDS) of the University of Amsterdam cordially invites you to the third Conference on Critical Perspectives on Governance by Sustainable Development Goals, taking place ...
The City and the Atlantic World 1500-1800: Some New Perspectives
21 Jan 2021
15:30 - 16:30
Event
During this Zoom seminar, Emma Hart (St Andrews) will offer some new perspectives on cities in the Atlantic world during the early modern period. All are welcome to attend.
Work in progress: Marleen Termeer and Maartje van Gelder
17 Dec 2020
15:30 - 16:30
Event
During our work in progress sessions, we invite two ACUH members to reflect on recent or forthcoming journal articles, book chapters, and/or research projects. On the 17th of December, Marleen Termeer and Maartje van ...
Late twentieth-century Amsterdam and the compact city
10 Dec 2020
20:00 - 21:00
Event
Tim Verlaan and Petra Brouwer will give an online lecture on 'the compact city', a planning concept that became leading in Amsterdam's urban policies during the last quarter of the twentieth century. The concept was ...
Seeing the City: Virtual Book Launch
24 Nov 2020
16:00 - 17:00
Event
The Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS) gladly invites you to the virtual book launch of Seeing the City - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Study of the Urban on Tuesday, 24 November from 16:00-17:00h
Urban Dialogue #2: City Science | Online event
24 Nov 2020
13:00 - 14:00
Event
European cities call for improved connections between science and policy as they are dealing with the impact of COVID-19 on their cities. As global urbanization continues, the role of cities in tackling today’s ...
Romanization, Globalization, or...?
19 Nov 2020
15:30 - 16:30
Event
During this Zoom seminar, Miko Flohr (NIAS/Leiden) will give a paper on the architecture of shops, commercial investments and urban change in Roman Italy.
Property Webinar Series: COVID-19 and risk assessments on hospitality property holding decisions
13 Nov 2020
16:00 - 17:00
Event
This session responds to the COVID-19 pandemic’s ongoing effects on the hospitality industry, which has spurred renewed conversations on risks associated with hospitality properties. It focuses on the approaches to ...
Nodegoat webinar on visualization and importing and exporting data
29 Oct 2020
10:00 - 12:30
Event
The research collective behind the Vidi-project 'Managing multi-level conflicts in commercial cities in northern Europe (c. 1350-1570)' hosts a Digital Humanities webinar on the use of Nodegoat as a data management ...
Work in progress: Marianne Groep-Foncke and Laura van Hasselt
22 Oct 2020
15:30 - 16:30
Event
During our work in progress sessions, we invite two ACUH members to reflect on recent or forthcoming journal articles, book chapters, and/or research projects. On the 22nd of October, together with Marianne Groep and ...
The New Empire Builders
17 Sep 2020
15:30 - 16:30
Event
During this this Zoom seminar, Alistair Kefford (Leiden) will give a paper on the global expansion of British property developers in the post-war period. Please register in advance by sending an e-mail to ...
De redder van de stad
16 Sep 2020
20:00 - 22:00
Event
Terwijl Amsterdam nog geen halve eeuw geleden in een diepe crisis verkeerde, is de stad momenteel ongekend populair. Eén van de grondleggers van de stedelijke revitalisering was Michael van der Vlis, wethouder ...
Life on the streets in early modern Amsterdam. From database to dissertation
4 Jun 2020
10:15 - 12:00
Event
In cooperation with the Gender and Work project at Uppsala University, Bob Pierik will give an online paper titled 'Life on the streets in early modern Amsterdam. From database to dissertation'.
Voorlichting master Stadsgeschiedenis en vertoning 'The Pruitt-Igoe Myth'
1 May 2020
15:00 - 17:30
Event
Petra Brouwer, Clé Lesger en Tim Verlaan verzorgen een digitale voorlichtingsbijeenkomst over het nieuwe programma van de master Stadsgeschiedenis, waarin onze stads- en architectuurhistorici nog nauwer gaan samenwerken.
Rural Policing in Trecento Piedmont
23 Apr 2020
08:00 Event
ACUH member Guy Geltner will give a Zoom lecture on rural policing in medieval Piedmont.
[CANCELLED] Storytelling Festival Amsterdam Nieuw-West
18 Mar 2020 - 21 Mar 2020
19:00 - 18:00
Event
Join the Storytelling Festival in Amsterdam Nieuw-West from the 18th - 21st of March where residents, entrepreneurs and professionals will share extraordinary stories at various locations in Nieuw-West. Success will ...
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