The GDC is now open for a new round of Seed Funding (up to 30,000€). Does your project examine how digitization is thematizing and problematizing the digital & the global with a focus on cultural processes and contexts? Read more and tag your colleagues globaldigitalcultures.uva.nl/funding-calls/…

Through analysis of satellite imagery, UvA Amsterdam researchers found substantial loss of #green space:15.7% per capita in #Amsterdam and 26.5% in #Brussels. This loss can be directly linked to #urban #densification processes. #FMGsustainability go.uva.nl/3mYpTRx

We congratulate Luca Bertolioni Luca Bertolini with this lifetime achievement award from the University of Ghent 👏🎉 go.uva.nl/3lxkVLX

Congratulations to Francesca Ranalli, Jade Mandrake and Eileen Moyer, who have been awarded the Isaac Roet Prize for their CUS-supported project "Hacking Urban Boundaries". Read more on the project here:

The need for a new economic narrative that ultimately serves us – the people – is no longer implicit. What can we, as policymakers, researchers, and practitioners, and as active agents of change, do to create a Wellbeing Economy? Join us on 26 Oct 17-18CET! More info below:

Congratulations to CUS member dr.Julienne Weegels + colleagues, who obtained a research grant from Kenniscentrum Ongelijkheid to research the ways in which the Dutch criminal justice system produces, mitigates and reinforces social and spatial inequalities urbanstudies.uva.nl/content/news/2…

De #klimaattop in #Glasgow dreigt de fouten uit het verleden te herhalen, stelt hoogleraar Joyeeta Gupta in De Groene Amsterdammer. 'Er is een patstelling tussen de #fossieleindustrie en jongeren die groene oplossingen willen.' go.uva.nl/3pMw9i6

Don't miss out on the third #connect21 webinar "(Mis)matches between Urban Policies and Real Estate Industry Activities" on 3 Dec 4pm (CET)!

New blog "Reclaiming mobility innovations from boring solutions" by Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  and Anna Nikolaeva. Read about the discussion on the dynamics of urban mobility innovation with international scholars here:

During his CUS fellowship, RICARDO FF visited Santiago, Chile, where he critically analysed the spatially heterogenous character of urban-environmental conflicts. Want to know more about the topic and his fellowship experience? Read this blog!: urbanstudies.uva.nl/content/blog-s… @UvA_AISSR