What Luxembourg reveals about housing pressures and emerging market dynamics This post was written by Tuna Tasan-Kok. Last week, I had the pleasure of travelling to Luxembourg City for a meeting of the advisory board for the HypeRent research project[1] …
Co-creating ‘productive tension’ between stakeholders to support just urban transitions This post was written by Niamh Moore-Cherry, Dean Phelan, Madeleine Gan, Rachel McArdle and Brian Caulfield . Differential access to quality living environments in urban centres has been brought into …
This post was written by Tuna Tasan-Kok. This post is based on the Keynote Dialogue with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Barbara Pizzo (Sapienza Universita di Roma), SIU Conference (Societa Italiana Degli Urbanisti) – XXVIIth National Conference, 20 June 2025, https://www.societaurbanisti.it Is …
From policy to practice in fragmented planning systems This post was written by Ebru Kurt-Özman. Setting the scene: Why we came together Held on July 8, 2025, at the AESOP Annual Congress in Istanbul, our UGoveRN roundtable titled “From Policy …
From Rembrandt to AI in the streets of Amsterdam This post was written by Tuna Tasan-Kok. As part of UGoveRN’s International Workshop on Digital Urban Governance, we kicked off our two-day event in Amsterdam with a unique walking excursion that …
This post was written by Tuna Taşan-Kok. As part of the UGoveRN-UP Dialogues Series, we were delighted to host Dr. Li Wan, Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Development at the University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy, and Director …
By Vera Setijawati and Danielle Chevalier. Kampung Susun: The Vertical Organization of Community Can community structures be recreated through spatial planning? The concept of the Kampung Susun represents an ambitious attempt to do so. Kampung is the Malay word for …
This post was written by Tuna Taşan-Kok. On a crisp spring afternoon in Amsterdam, UGoveRN and the Urban Planning (UP) Group welcomed Professor Patrick Le Galès (Sciences Po, Paris) to deliver a keynote as part of our ongoing UP Dialogues Series. …
UGoveRN’s First Panel at NIG UGhent This post was written by Igor Pessoa. The Event Last week, the UGoveRN organised a panel (more like a small track) at the NIG (Netherlands Institute of Governance) 2024/25 conference at Ghent University. It …
Rebuilding Toronto’s non-profit housing development industry This post was written by Yinnon Geva. Everybody loves non-profit housing Canada is experiencing an unprecedented housing crisis and is rapidly becoming one of the least affordable countries in the Global North. Housing costs …
This post was written by Elise F. Jansen. In this blog I describe the findings from my master thesis in Urban and Regional Planning titled “The influence of flexible densification policy on contractual arrangements of affordable housing”. The primary research …
This post was written by Nagwa Kady. Urban planning aims to safeguard public interests through spatial regulations that foster social value within communities. However, in our article “Lost in Translation: Unlocking Planning’s Potential to Harness Social Value from Property Development …