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Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai
2 Oct 2015
Over the past few years, Sharon Zukin (Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College) has regularly visited the Centre for Urban Studies to work with Jan Rath (member of the CUS), Philip Kasinitz, and Xiangming Chen on ...
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Review Urban Movie #12 'Smart City: In search of the Smart Citizen'
28 Sept 2015
On September 10th 2015, as part of the Urban Movies series, the film 'Smart City. In search of the Smart Citizen' was screened at Pakhuis de Zwijger. The documentary is a collaborative product by Sara Blom and Dorien ...
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East meets west: new perspectives on socio-economic segregation in European capital cities
18 Sept 2015
Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities. An overlooked area of research, an international team of researchers ...
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New Director Centre for Urban Studies
7 Sept 2015
After four years, Jan Nijman stepped down as Director of the Centre for Urban Studies and he is succeeded by Luca Bertolini. We spoke with Luca and Jan about the meaning of urban studies, the challenges, and their ...
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Jan Nijman Mellon Visiting Professor at the University of Pretoria
3 Sept 2015
Jan Nijman was Mellon Visiting Professor at the University of Pretoria in the summer of 2015. He gave a public lecture on August 5: "Emergent Urban Formations: The Case of India."
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New Assistant Professor in Governance of Urban Infrastructure to Enhance Adaptive Capacity
3 Sept 2015
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 ...
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How to plan a cycling city: short review of the summer school provided by the Urban Cycling Institute
2 Sept 2015
‘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 ...
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Shanghai Ranking: UvA’s Social Sciences once again best in the Netherlands
31 Aug 2015
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 ...
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NWO-VENI grant for Willem Boterman
30 July 2015
Willem Boterman has received a VENI for his research proposal ‘Placing educational inequalities: Socio-spatial strategies for access to primary education’.
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Start of Summer School ‘Planning the Cycling City’
13 July 2015
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 ...
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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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