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The Centre for Urban Studies warmly welcomes Eric Chu as new research member. Chu will be Assistant Professor in a new research project ‘Governance of Urban Infrastructure to Enhance Adaptive Capacity,’ in which he ...

‘How to plan a cycling city?’ is a unique summer course at the University of Amsterdam that seeks to give students insight into the roots and world of the Dutch cycling tradition. The main goal of the course was to ...

The Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam have once again risen in the field ranking conducted by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the Shanghai Ranking, advancing from 39th to ...

Willem Boterman has received a VENI for his research proposal ‘Placing educational inequalities: Socio-spatial strategies for access to primary education’.

Starting this week, the Urban Cycling Institute - an initiative launched by the Centre for Urban Studies - organizes a graduate summer school programme ‘Planning the Cycling City’. Cycling is a simple means of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

#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 ...

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 ...

Human Geography / Development Studies alumna Lydia Hofman recently won the WoON thesis prize for her Master's thesis on eco-friendly living behaviour.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.