UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP
Food deserts pose a risk in Flemish cities
PhD researcher Jeroen Cant warns for food deserts in Flemish cities.
In certain neighbourhoods, residents have very limited access to affordable food stores.
The Luchtbal district in Antwerp is an example of this phenomenon, which mostly harms poor and elderly people.
Jeroen Cant talks about his findings on ATV (Dutch)
USI lunch seminar on World City Network research
On 20 November 2018, Prof Ben Derudder (UGhent) will critically review the two decades of World City Network research, carried out under the umbrella of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network.
Register for the lunch seminar by Ben Derudder
Commons and the city of the future
Increasingly more citizens collectively create products and services in commons.
From neighbourhood gardens to energy cooperations: new alternatives pop up daily.
These commons can learn from the past, as Professor Tine De Moor (University of Utrecht) will explain in her public lecture for Studium Generale.
Attend the lecture on 26 November 2018 (Dutch)
Interdisciplinary take on infrastructure networks
USI board members Greet De Block, Ilja Van Damme and Thomas Vanoutrive put together their knowledge on urban planning, history and economic thought to analyse and reflect upon the development of infrastructure networks and the ways in which researchers approach this topic.
Read the resulting interdisciplinary publication in Geoforum
The City as a Global Political Actor
This new book, coedited by Stijn Oosterlynck, addresses the claim that cities will provide leadership in taking on global challenges when nation state governments fail to do so. It offers a better understanding of global urban political agency, in a diversity of contexts.
Order the book “The City as a Global Political Actor”
Coming up
St Geneviève’s relics in revolutionary Paris
13 NOV 2018
Sensational Cities public lecture by Hannah Williams (Queen Mary University): St Geneviève’s Relics in Revolutionary Paris: Religion, the City, and Modernity
Local civil society dynamics: Molenbeek
18 DEC 2018
USI lunch seminar by Thomas Swerts and Stijn Oosterlynck: Local civil society dynamics in territorially stigmatized neighbourhoods. The case of Molenbeek, Brussels
18 DEC 2018
(Final) Sensational Cities lecture by Karl Bell (Portsmouth University): England’s dark modernity: magic, the supernatural, and the modern city