by admin_user | Jul 7, 2026 | Engage, Publications
What shapes the city? What shapes the city? This book answers with a fresh, relational lens: spatial governance landscapes, the dynamic interplay between planning regulation and property-market strategies. Centered on the Metropolitan Region of Amsterdam, Spatial...
by admin_user | Dec 2, 2025 | Environment, Publications
Transforming Nature-based Solutions into Inclusive Climate Actions How can Inclusive Climate Actions (ICAs) inform Nature-Based-Solutions (NbS) in addressing urban inequalities and social and environmental injustices? This is the question at the root of the scientific...
by admin_user | Nov 3, 2025 | Governance, Publications
Contracting with Citizens: how morals, politics and laws shape cities Michiel Stapper Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam Urban development has increasingly become a site of negotiation between government agencies, commercial parties and residents. Public...
by admin_user | Jun 19, 2025 | Governance, Publications, Reflections
Seeing the Trees, Missing the Forest: Why Public Planning Fails to Harness Social Value in Fragmented Urban Development In contemporary urban development, “social value” has become a shared ambition across both public planning institutions and private property actors....
by admin_user | Mar 25, 2025 | Environment, Events, Publications
Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero’s recently published book Class Meets Land was the focus of UPE Reading Group’s Embodying Land Financialization and Infrastructures double feature session on 14...
by admin_user | Oct 1, 2024 | Environment, Publications
Property and values: the affordability, accessibility, and autonomy of collaborative housing Mirte Jepma PhD Researcher, University of Amsterdam Federico Savini Associate Professor in Environmental Planning, Institutions and Politics, University of Amsterdam. Contact....
