During the first ACUH seminar of the new academic year, Anneleen Arnout (Radboud University) will give a paper on the emotional experience of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Amsterdam. Those interested ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered new challenges in urban governance and the provision of services, as well as in the adaptation of social groups in most cities around the world. The workshop promotes an ...

The Freedom of the Streets project and the Amsterdam Centre for Urban History organise an online panel in lieu of the postponed 2021 EAUH conference. The panel includes papers on cities such as Paramaribo, Venice, ...

Degrowth is a movement and a research field that explores these fundamental questions and proposes solutions confronting the roots of today’s crises.

In urban Dialogue #8, Olga Sezneva, Anastasiya Halauniova, and Giselinde Kuipers demonstrate new analytical possibilities that research on urban aesthetics brings. Such notions as historicity, authenticity, ...

Planners and real estate industry actors are dependent on each other for financing, regulating, and implementing urban real estate development. In this process, boundaries between public and private sectors, roles, ...

The real estate industry is fast paced and dynamic – producing complex landscapes of investors and developers within cities globally. Tomorrow’s generation of planners and planning scholars must grapple with this ...

Janna Coomans will give a lecture for the digital lectures series organized and hosted every fortnight by 'Somewhere beyond the Sea', the Belgo-British Research Network. The talk is titled ‘Pigs and Plague: Public ...

During this work in progress session, Ester Zoomer and Christian Manger will respectively present papers on disputes between merchants working in different early modern European cities and urban councils and their ...

This event is organized by the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA) of the University of Amsterdam.

An Urban Studies / Urban Mental Health / Global Health networking event, organized by the Centre for Urban Studies | To be followed by a Seed Grants competition funded by the Centre for Urban Studies

Planning and real estate dynamics are inherently intertwined. Covid19, however, disrupted established practices and relations between planners and real estate industry actors. The pandemic shed light on longstanding ...

Critical scholarship on smart city has discussed and critiqued the notion of “smartness” purported by corporations, governments, entrepreneurs, consultants and academics. Researchers have pointed out that what counts ...

Helena Mattson (Stockholm) will investigate neoliberal processes of deregulation and re-regulation in the Södra station area, a postmodern housing development located in Stockholm's inner city.

During its work in progress sessions, the Architectural History department invites staff members, students and alumni to share their experience with recent research activities and their working life: how to earn a ...

Sociological perspectives in Urban Studies, it is argued is enmeshed in evolutional theory, from rural-agrarian to urban-industrial. It also equates urbanization with the spatial form of the city. Consequently, the ...

What if we could easily offer our education and research output to a much wider audience? What are possible pathways to support people around the world with structured courses? And how can we generate more visibility ...

Cities like San Francisco and New York have emerged as ‘superstar cities’. How? Because of their great innovation economies: startups bloom and jobs of the future multiply. The idea has emerged that the innovation ...

During this Zoom seminar, Davide Martino (Cambridge) will examine the urban-environmental history of early modern Augsburg. All are welcome to attend.

Common mental health disorders (depression and anxiety) are a worldwide epidemic and there is no evidence that the epidemic is subsiding. Depression is a major contributor to the overall global burden of disease ...