This post was written by Tobias Arnoldussen. Fifty years ago, residents from the Surinamese community organised a football tournament in the Amsterdam Bijlmermeer. The Bijlmer is one of the most maligned areas of Amsterdam, with high crime rates, high unemployment, …
Six Years After COVID-19, the Question Looks Different This post was written by Fuad K. Malkawi, Ph.D., The World Bank On May 26, 2021, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I gave a talk titled Post-COVID-19 Cities: What Should …
Rethinking inclusive participation for cities This post was written by Francesca Ranalli. A dream comes true: researchers, policy makers, young people, and practitioners sharing and learning from each other Making participation inclusive with creativity Participation in the Netherlands has become …
Reflections from the First UGoveRN Roundtable On a grey Amsterdam morning, a group of researchers, planners, municipal officials, and policy advisors gathered around a table with coffee, a shared sense of urgency, and, it turned out, rather different ideas about …
Reflections from RGS 2025 on authoritarian neoliberal urbanisms This post was written by Ebru Kurt Özman. In our Birmingham session at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) Annual Conference 2025, we found ourselves immersed in one of the most compelling questions …
Planning Conflict and the Case of Seventh Avenue in Bogotá, Colombia. Urban Studies, Online first (2025) This post was written by Nanke Verloo and Andres Galeano Salgado. Although often approached as technical, urban developments are inherently political. Whether they …
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 …