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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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'.

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.

ACUH member Guy Geltner will give a Zoom lecture on rural policing in medieval Piedmont.

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 ...