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Highlighted CUS publication 'Welcome to the neighbourhood: The spatial dimensions of legitimacy for voluntary leisure organisations'
2 July 2015
With an understanding that organisations in a city are spatially located and that the geographical distribution of their resources is uneven, this paper examines how neighbourhood characteristics affect the spatial ...
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New publication 'Younger Adults and Homeownership in Europe Through the Global Financial Crisis'
2 July 2015
In the context of poorly performing national economies and sustained employment insecurity since the Global Financial Crisis of 2007–2008, various UK and US studies have suggested that the transitions of younger ...
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Who Makes the City? – New online platform for young urban talent
16 June 2015
In cooperation with the research master students in Urban Studies, The Proto City has launched a new online platform titled ‘Who Makes the City’. Aimed at early-career urban researchers and enthusiast, and crossing ...
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Master Studio Magazine on 'Urban Metabolism'
10 June 2015
The Master Studio Magazine on 'Urban Metabolism' gives a full overview of the course Innovative International Planning Practices - with contributions from the best students, interviews with speakers and authors.
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Research Master Urban Studies: Open for Applications
11 May 2015
The 21st century is an urban century. Cities are engines of economic growth and generate social, cultural and political opportunities, but they are also places with concentrations of specific problems and ...
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Latest issue #kijkSW on Urban Studies
28 Apr 2015
#kijkSW is a triennial publication of the College of Social Sciences (CSW) and the Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS) of the University of Amsterdam. The magazine informs its readers about the current state of ...
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Women food entrepreneurs in Kenya and Burkina Faso
24 Apr 2015
This 4-years international research project strengthens women’s food entrepreneurship in city slums in Kenya & Burkina Faso, based on an integrated understanding of the complex interactions between soil quality, food ...
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Get a quick impression of CUS’ two-day joint symposium with IIT Mumbai
23 Apr 2015
On the 26th and 27th of March 2015, the Centre for Urban Studies and the Indian Institute of Technology organized a symposium on ‘Sustainable Urban Development: Practices, Problems and Prospects’ in the Victor ...
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WoON thesis prize for UvA alumna Lydia Hofman
23 Apr 2015
Human Geography / Development Studies alumna Lydia Hofman recently won the WoON thesis prize for her Master's thesis on eco-friendly living behaviour.
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The Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai signs Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Amsterdam
16 Apr 2015
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) promotes the enrichment of educational and research programmes of both universities. It establishes constructive relationships between researchers of the two universities, ...
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Regiomonitor Groot Amsterdam
31 Mar 2015
With the recently launched interactive GIS application 'Regiomonitor Amsterdam' it is easy to visually and statistically analyse time-series of spatial cluster maps of urban issues in the Amsterdam region. Maps can ...
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From student blog to the Guardian
27 Mar 2015
'The Proto City com' is a platform founded by seven students from the Research Master in Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam. The blog `Polarised Tehran: Tea house vs coffee shop' was picked up by the ...
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Best graduate student paper prize 2014
13 Mar 2015
Jana Kleibert has won the best graduate student paper prize 2014 by the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography for her single-authored article: "Strategic coupling in 'next wave cities': Local institutional actors ...
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Cycling in Amsterdam: a joyful, daily occurrence, but also complex
2 Mar 2015
Cycling is such an integral part of daily life in Amsterdam, that we don't give it a second thought. However, from a scientific standpoint, it's a subject that raises numerous planning, cultural and social geography ...
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Official Opening LAB
24 Feb 2015
What are the spatial patterns and trends of urban housing market transformations? What are the infrastructural relations between the city and its hinterland? How can we best assess water quality and manage water ...
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Maarten Hajer Public Manager of the Year
6 Feb 2015
Minister Plasterk of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations presented Maarten Hajer with the award for Public Manager ('Overheidsmanager') of the Year 2014. The jury expressed that Maarten Hajer is an ...
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The Contemporary City: Call for Proposals
12 Jan 2015
In recent decades cities have been variously impacted by neoliberalism, economic crisis, climate change, post-industrialization and increasing inequalities. What is it like to live in a city today? What are the key ...
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Urban Cycling Institute
8 Jan 2015
At the start of the new year, the Centre for Urban Studies launches a new ‘Urban Cycling Institute’ (UCI); an interdisciplinary research platform with a scientific and policy-oriented agenda. In cities around the ...
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Wendy Tan wins the Georges Allaert Prize
5 Jan 2015
Former CUS PhD student Wendy Tan, has won the Georges Allaert prize with her dissertation 'Pursuing Transit Oriented Development'. The prize is named after the Belgium professor in Human Geography and Planning ...
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Joyeeta Gupta wins ASLI Book Choice Award
5 Jan 2015
Joyeeta Gupta, Professor of Environment and Development in the global south at the AISSR and member of CUS, has won the Atmospheric Science Liberians International (ASLI) Book Choice Award.
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