Welcome to EURA Conversations
EURA Conversations is a blog conceived as a democratic space to share experiences, offer reflections and open up conversations on various aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The questions we hope to address along with readers include.
Does the Covid-19 pandemic raise new questions for urban studies? What are the implications of this disaster for the future of cities and urban governance? Amid all the suffering are there positive stories and insights to unearth? Can international exchange help different societies share good ideas and practices on how to recover from the Covid-19 onslaught?
This new interactive space has been created to facilitate exchange of views on how different cities and communities are responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, and to explore ideas on what our world might look like in the future.
Each Post is less than 500 words. Please consider leaving a “Comment” at the end of the Post to stimulate fresh thinking and idea development.
If you would like to offer a Post to appear in this space please send your proposal in a Word document with: your title, your text, your name and affiliation to: secretariat@eura.org
You will reach scholars in over twenty countries!
Robin Hambleton and Ignazio Vinci
Co-editors of the EURA Conversations series
12/07/2021
New challenges for urban mobility in the city of Palermo, Italy EURA Conversations Post #29 – 12 July 2021João Igreja, University of Palermo As pointed out […]
05/07/2021
COVID-19 and the movement to tackle racial inequality EURA Conversations Post #28 – 05 July 2021Robin Hambleton, University of the West of England, Bristol In June […]
21/06/2021
Rewilding the Post-Covid City EURA Conversations Post #27 – 21 June 2021Siân Moxon, Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies, School of Art Architecture and Design, London […]
07/06/2021
COVID-19 – a view from Trinidad and Tobago EURA Conversations Post #26 – 7 June 2021Julia R. Kotzebue, habitant at the Institute of Geography at the […]
24/05/2021
How will the COVID-19 pandemic affect the use of public space? EURA Conversations Post #25 – 24 May 2021Evangelia Athanassiou, School of Architecture, Aristotle University of […]
10/05/2021
The Response of Urban Africa to COVID-19 EURA Conversations Post #24 – 10 May 2021 Costanza La Mantia, In-house Technical Advisor at Rwanda Ministry of Infrastructure […]
26/04/2021
Education EURA Conversations Post #23 – 26 April 2021 Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida, Researcher at CIES, ISCTE, University Institute of Lisbon In Portugal municipalities are […]
12/04/2021
Urban greenspace during lockdown EURA Conversations Post #22 – 12 April 2021 Danielle Sinnett, Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments, University of the West of England, […]
22/03/2021
Urban green space and the mental health of young people EURA Conversations Post #21 – 22 March 2021 Isabelle Bray, Centre for Public Health and Wellbeing, […]
08/03/2021
Please, stop turning the temporary into tokenism EURA Conversations Post #20 – 8 March 2021 by Sara Caramaschi, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy As discussed by […]
23/02/2021
Are temporary uses back in town? EURA Conversations Post #19 – 22 February 2021 by Robin Chang, Department of European Planning Cultures, TU Dortmund University, Germany Temporary […]
08/02/2021
Distancing EURA Conversations Post #18 – 8 February 2021 by Henrique Dorneles De Castro, UFRGS Geography post-graduate program, Observatório das metrópoles, Núcleo Porto Alegre, Brazil It […]
25/01/2021
Remember Teaching? EURA Conversations Post #17 – 25 January 2021 by Alistair Jones, De Montfort University – Department of Politics, People and Place, UK As I […]
13/01/2021
Learning from 2020 EURA Conversations Post #16 – 11 January 2021 by Ignazio Vinci, University of Palermo A few weeks ago, a column in Time magazine […]
14/12/2020
Media responsibility? EURA Conversations Post #15 – 14 Dec 2020 by Cristiana Rossignolo, Politecnico di Torino I would like to contribute to this series of EURA […]
30/11/2020
Safe or free? EURA Conversations Post #14 – 30 Nov 2020 by Marta Lackowska, University of Warsaw, Poland Safety and freedom have always been qualities expected […]
16/11/2020
Instruments and relations between different levels of government EURA Conversations Post #13 – 16 Nov 2020 by Cristina Stănuș, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania A […]
02/11/2020
Can urban design be “Covid-safe”? EURA Conversations Post #12 – 2 Nov 2020 by Inigo Lorente Riverola, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid More than a century […]
20/10/2020
Why place should be central to the development of any successful post COVID-19 strategy? EURA Conversations Post #11 – 19 Oct 2020 by Robin Hambleton, University […]
05/10/2020
Not just bad? EURA Conversations Post #10 – 5 Oct 2020 by Jacob Norvig Larsen, Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University Evidently, the Covid-19 crisis […]
27/07/2020
To what extent can local governments tackle the social crisis? EURA Conversations Post #9 – 27 Jul 2020 by Iván Tosics, Metropolitan Research Institute, Hungary In […]
20/07/2020
Urban regeneration EURA Conversations Post #8 – 20 Jul 2020 by Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Along the last months, we have been […]
13/07/2020
Community Response EURA Conversations Post #7 – 13 Jul 2020 by Paula Russell, School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin In the movies […]
30/06/2020
Healthy public spaces EURA Conversations Post #6 – 29 Jun 2020 by Marichela Sepe Italian National Research Council & University of Naples, Italy. The 2020 public […]
23/06/2020
People’s responses EURA Conversations Post #5 – 22 Jun 2020 by Susanne Søholt Susanne Søholt, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research. In […]
16/06/2020
Will pop-up cycling solve our urban mobility problems? EURA Conversations Post #4 – 15 Jun 2020 by Kartsten Zimmermann The corona pandemic has a wide range […]
18/05/2020
Cities learn and adapt through experimentation EURA Conversations Post #3 – 20 May 2020 by Filipe Teles Filipe Teles, Pro-rector for Regional Development and Urban Policies, […]
18/05/2020
What Covid-19 says about the concept of proximity EURA Conversations Post #2 – 18 May 2020 by Ignazio Vinci, University of Palermo As I write these […]
04/05/2020
What does Covid-19 reveal about local leadership? EURA Conversations Post #1 – 4 May 2020 by Robin Hambleton Robin Hambleton, Emeritus Professor of City Leadership at […]