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Newsletter October 2019
Centre for Urban Studies
NEWS
Final Call - Joint Seed Grant Second Round
The Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Heritage and Identity (ACHI) and Centre for Urban Studies (CUS) have launched a second round of their Joint Seed Grant. These grants are provided to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue between urban scholars in the humanities and in the social sciences, and to stimulate original research in the field of Urban Studies. In this second round, grants will be awarded of between €2.500 and €5.000 per grant, up to a total call budget of €15.000. Grants can be submitted continuously, between now and the final deadline of 15 October 2019.
> Find the full call online
Alexander von Humboldt Lecture Series 2019-2020
A new series of Alexander von Humboldt Lecture Series has started!

In this series we will be exploring the affective dimensions of urban public spaces. Beginning by reframing the public spaces of cities as spaces of affect and emotion, we will focus on how integration is a matter of how urban experience is patterned, lived and organised. Problems of integration, exclusion, disintegration, fragmentation as played out in the public space of our future cities can only be understood and effectively dealt with if we also take these material and affective aspects into account.

Speakers
  • Steve Davies, Project for Public Spaces (PPS), New York, USA
  • Prof. Janine Dahinden, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Prof. Sophie Watson, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
  • Prof. Ben Anderson, Durham University, UK

For more information on the lectures and location please click below
> More information and registration
UPCOMING EVENTS
Masterstudio 2019
2 October | Organized Crime and Urbanization
While organized crime is mainly studied in relation to expanding illicit economies and the movement of people, arms and drugs across internal and external borders – as well as to military and police responses to such movement – cities assume a crucial role in this context. This evening, we will discuss how organized crime has affected urbanization by investigating the influential role of organized crime in urban planning and organization. In her keynote address, professor Diane Davis will historicize the illicit side of urbanization in Latin America and demonstrate how modernist planning efforts have been complicit in the production of urban illegality. Francesco Chiodelli will respond to the keynote, drawing on his research on informal urbanization, corruption and organized crime in Italy.

Keynote address: “Historicizing Illicities: Modernist Paradigms of Planning and the Co-Production of Urban ‘Illegality’”

Speakers

  • Diane Davis is the Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. 
  • Francesco Chiodelli is associate professor in urban planning at Gran Sasso Institute, where is the vice-coordinator of the international PhD Program in Urban Studies and Regional Science.

Location
Pakhuis de Zwijger
Piet Heinkade 179
1019 HC Amsterdam
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16 October | Reconceptualising urban politics: territories, interests and institutions
European Cities in the 21st Century public lecture

In the wake of both post-colonial critiques of urban studies and the emerging propositions of “planetary urbanization” there is a need to revisit theories of urban politics. During this evening, Jennifer Robinson will present her vision for urban theorisations which emerge from and speak to the diversity of urban experiences across the world. What can European cities contribute to new conceptualisations of urban politics? The talk will draw on detailed research on a large-scale urban development in London, part of a wider comparative analysis including Shanghai and Johannesburg, to propose ways in which the politics of urban development in Europe might be conceptualized in relation to a wider urban world.

Justus Uitermark and Virginie Mamadouh will reflect and react on Jennifer Robinson’s lecture. The evening will be curated by Richard Ronald.

Location and Time
20.00 - 22.00
Pakhuis de Zwijger
Piet Heinkade 179
> More information and registration
17 October | The European City in the early 21st Century
A seminar on shifting politics, transforming institutions and new geographies.

During this seminar, the European City in the early 21st Century is interrogated, using the ‘comparative gesture’ at various scales. During this day, European urban academics from the disciplines of geography, planning and sociology will present their perspective on the ‘European city’.

Speakers
  • Philip Lawton is assistant professor of Geography at Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on uneven urban development, suburban futures and urban governance.
  • Manuel Aalbers is professor of Social and Economic Geography at KU Leuven. He is trained as a human geographer, sociologist and urban planner. His main research interest lies at the intersection of real estate, finance and states.
  • Mari Vaattovaara is professor of Urban Geography at the University of Helsinki and Director of Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies. Her research interests relate to the social and spatial developments in urban areas, segregation, immigration, housing preferences, and housing choice as well as to the housing policy. 
  • Sonia Arbaci Salazzaro is associate professor at the Bartlett School of Planning at University College London. She is interested in international comparative studies from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, with a particular attention to Southern European cities. Her research focuses on ethnic residential segregation and the role of the state in the production of inequality.
  • Daniel Sorando currently works at the department of Sociology at the University of Madrid. He does research in urban social stratification. Currently he is working on the project ‘Vulnerability, Participation and Citizenship’.
  • Roger Andersson is professor at the department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University. His current research is focused on four substantive areas in the housing and urban development field: residential segregation, intra-urban migration, urban policy, and economic and social integration of immigrants.
  • Szymon Marcinczak is researcher at the Institute of Urban Geography and Tourism Studies at Lodz University. His main research fields are urban geography and economic geography. His research focuses on the increase of social inequalities and the processes of socioeconomic segregation and neighborhood change in cities after socialism.
  • Michael Gentile is professor at the department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo. His work centres around geopolitics with a regional focus on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, most notably Ukraine. 
  • Yuri Kazepov is professor of International Urban Sociology at the University of Vienna. His work centres around international urban sociology and comparative social policy.
All are welcome, but please register as places are limited.
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18 October | Valedictory lecture prof. dr. Sako Musterd
On the occasion of becoming a emeritus professor (and former CUS director) prof. dr. Sako Musterd will give a valedictory lecture titled: New perspectives on Residential Segregation.

Location and Time
Friday 18 October 2019
16.00
Auditorium - Old Lutherian Church
Singel 411
Exhibition | The Right to Build - Self-Build between Dreams and Reality
All over the world, people are building their own homes. Sometimes this stems from a strong personal desire, at other times it follows from necessity. The Right to Build presents a snapshot of iconic, diverse types of self-build which have manifested themselves in Amsterdam and Almere in the past ten years. These initiatives are mirrored with international examples from the same period. The exhibition focuses on the tension between personal initiatives and regulations.

The exhibition was created on the initiative of the University of Amsterdam, partly funded by the Centre for Urban Studies, and arranged with the help of René Boer and Mark Minkjan (Failed Architecture).

Exhibition date: 28.06 – 08.12.2019
Location: the Amsterdam Architecture Centre.
> More information
PHD DEFENCES
Transformative Spatial Governance
Transformative Spatial Governance
On the 11th of October, from 10.00 - 11.00, Sara Özoğul will defend her doctoral thesis 'Transformative Spatial Governance: New Avenues for Comprehensive Planning in Fragmented Urban Development'.

All are welcome at the Agnietenkapel!
Distributive Justice of Housing in Amsterdam
On the 17th of October, from 14.00 - 15.00, Arend Jonkman will defend his doctoral thesis 'Distributive Justice of Housing in Amsterdam'.

All are welcome at the Agnietenkapel!
Distributive Justice of Housing in Amsterdam
WORKING PAPER SERIES
(Re)inventing single living: Tokyo share houses as commodified, individualized sharing
In context of increasing housing market pressures and an international swell in the formation of non-family households, especially among younger-adults, this paper examines share house (shea-hausu), an increasingly popular form of private rental housing in Tokyo. This study is framed in relation to shifting socioeconomic and demographic conditions affecting single, young Japanese adults, their aspirations and life-courses, as well as forms and practices in Japanese housing.
> Read the paper
Dark Disneyfication: Staging Authenticity on Airbnb
Urban areas around the world are currently seeing a surge in tourists on the hunt for “real urban experiences” with New York City, and in particular Brooklyn, providing the most emblematic example of these trends. This taste for urban authenticity has linked up with the simultaneous rise of urban digital platforms, such as Airbnb, effectively cater to this form of tourism by providing access to residential homes in areas outside of urban centers, adding a sense of being integrated in the everyday urban fabric. In this new Working Paper, Petter Törnberg identifies a number of themes in how both reviewers and hosts partake in staging and performing “new urban tourism”, which simultaneously shapes an imaginary of what is meant by urban authenticity.
> Read the paper
Recent Publications
L. Bertolini
Bridging the Implementation Gap

L. Chiappini 
Conclusion: Enabling Alternative Urban Futures

E. Grassiani
Mobility through Self-Defined Expertise: Israeli Security from the Occupation to Kenya 

I. Roex & F. Vermeulen
Preemptive measures against radicalization and local partnerships in Antwerp 

L. van de Kamp
Women and the Afro-Brazilian Pentecostal War in Mozambique

M. Stapper & M. van der Veen
Consultants as intermediaries: Their perceptions on citizen involvement in urban development 

Y. Tzaninis
Cosmopolitanism beyond the city: discourses and experiences of young migrants in post-suburban Netherlands

F. Vermeulen, M. Kranendonk & L. Michon
Immigrant concentration at the neighbourhood level and bloc voting: The case of Amsterdam 

D. Zandbergen & J. Uitermark
In search of the Smart Citizen: Republican and cybernetic citizenship in the smart city

M. Glaser, M. te Brommelstroet & Luca Bertolini
Learning to build strategic capacity for transportation policy change: an interdisciplinary exploration

L. Mügge, M. Kranendonk & Floris Vermeulen
Migrant votes ‘here’and ‘there’: Transnational electoral behavior of Turks in the Netherlands 

M. Bontje
Shenzhen: satellite city or city of satellites? 
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