2022
02/05/2022
The annual EURA conference has been and, hopefully, will continue to be the ‘heartbeat’ and meeting point for our organisation and urban researchers committed to international exchange. Therefore, it was with deep disappointment we had to cancel the Oslo conference in 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic The conference was still implemented a year later as a smaller but rather successful online event. We exp...
13/04/2022
New EURA journal issue has been published. Now available Urban Research & Practice, Volume 15, Issue 1. Read more and browse the journal!
11/04/2022
Thursday, February 24, 2022, I lay in bed unable to sleep. Two days before, Russia announced that it would recognize the independence of two pro-Russian Ukrainian territories and this morning, the invasion of Ukraine began. I was at a loss. Speaking to others – friends, relatives, students, and colleagues – it was clear that I was not alone. Fear, sadness, uncertainty, frustration, anger… the emotions roiling inside of us were legion. This was not new: It brought me b...
28/03/2022
The great recession (2008) and the Pandemic (2020) have redefined the balances and economies of European cities, but we could easily scale this consideration globally, however, in this conversation I will stay within the EU borders. The first crisis at least had the advantage of being progressive and of affecting only the demand side, the second instead hit us like an asteroid. The crisis induced by Covid tri...
23/03/2022
REAL CORP 2022 addresses the links between society's innovative achievements and the confronting demands of our environment, cities and settlements. In order to achieve acceptable sustainable development, spatial planning and related disciplines need to carefully address current trends and influence them with appropriate governance mechanisms to maintain and improve the quality of life, but also to decisively address the concerns of our ecosystem. [...]
21/03/2022
New edition of the publication Regio-news brings an analysis of regional GDP per capita in 2019 and an analysis of the 2021 census in Croatian counties. The section "Selected projects" presents BLUEMED, a project that won the prize for the best EU county project in 2021 in the category "Contribution to science and innovation" [...]
16/03/2022
This is a call for applications to the 26th IFHP Urban Planning and Design Summer School – Rethinking Urban Change. The course will be held 15–26 August 2022 in Helsinki and Hämeenlinna, Finland. We welcome applications from students completing their bachelor’s, master’s and post-graduate studies as well as from young professionals in all disciplines related to spatial planning. [...]
15/03/2022
The Urban Affairs Association (UAA) invites you to attend its 2022 conference in Washington, DC. The Opening Plenary will address the theme, "The State of Urban Affairs and the State of Urban Affairs Research." [...]
14/03/2022
When the first lockdown was imposed in France, we launched an action research project, on the effects of Covid-19 on working-class neighbourhoods in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region (SCIVIQ project). In the ethnography conducted in a commune in the suburbs of Bordeaux, we found that the experience of the pandemic and of government health measures are linked to the relationships that the inhabitants have with th....
28/02/2022
In recent years, in France, the notion of metropolization has migrated from the academic vocabulary to the political debate. The term is most often used in a pejorative way to designate a set of territorial upheavals deemed harmful: the concentration of populations and activities in the largest cities, the progressive decline of small [...]
22/02/2022
The 2022 edition will be held in Madrid under the topic of Rural and Urban in Local Government and Politics. The global phenomena of urbanisation, on the one hand, and of depopulation of rural areas on the other [...]
14/02/2022
The governance of Covid-19 pandemic has been broadly framed by policymakers as “a war against an invisible threat”. Across the globe, countries have implemented a range of lockdown policies to contain Covid-19. During these lockdowns, cities worldwide looked as if they really were in the midst of a war. In most cases, restrictions were placed on movement and social interaction,...
08/02/2022
The Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA) welcomes submissions for our forthcoming three-day on-line conference: Towards the “Post-Pandemic” City?
31/01/2022
Before Covid-19, Aotearoa New Zealand performed as a proxy of the Global North. We traded and travelled back and forth between Europe and the Americas, with and via Asia and Africa. That life has been suspended. The pandemic has revealed our true location as a Pacific land—and geographic distance has never been of more advantage. All that blue lashing our edges on the globe, marking our islands as distant i...
17/01/2022
In this conversation I contend that amongst the clamour for schools to ‘return to normal’ teaching professionals need to step back, reflect on their Covid-19 experience, and use it as a springboard for creating schools for the twenty-first century. While researching teacher attrition and resilience, which coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic, I was able to hear from the chalkface of serving educational profes...
24/05/2021
The 6th DOKORP will take place on February 14 and 15, 2022, in German and English language, and hopefully in attendance. The title is: “If possible, […]
