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Earn & Spend

From Hippies to Hipsters and Homelessness in Haight-Ashbury

The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco is known as the heart of the 1960s...

November 5, 2018  By Iris van Gent
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Metropolis Charleroi: Overcoming Post-Industrial Struggles?

The Southern-Belgian former industrial stronghold of Charleroi is dealing...

June 27, 2016  By Freke Caset & Jorn Koelemaij 
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Amsterdam Dance Event: for the Masses?

It all started when the neighbor on my right knocked at my door to borrow...

November 23, 2015  By Margot Abord
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Bijlmer Euro: Tracing Money in the Local Economy

There are hundreds of local currencies - on the scale of cities or even...

November 9, 2015  By Yuki Yamamoto
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High-end art and the quest for global city status

Academically, global cities have usually been approached in terms of their...

August 24, 2015  By Freke Caset
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One-Hit City Wonder: Düsseldorf and Kraftwerk

The building’s exterior, typical of German post-war reconstruction styles,...

July 6, 2015  By Robert Kloosterman
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Lost Vegas: A Night Walk on Fremont Street

Vice. Excess. Indulgence. The Las Vegas Strip holds a number of well-deserved...

March 23, 2015  By Adam Nowek
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A Local Cow at Global Schiphol Airport

Finding the local at the international airport “Are you sure this is Paris,...

February 23, 2015  By Michael Schwind
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Expats in Global Cities: Reshaping the Local

Highly-skilled migrants – expats – entail an ever larger part of the urban...

January 5, 2015  By Leon van Keulen
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Can Detroit Boogie Back?

There is no city that has undergone such a tumultuous development history...

November 10, 2014  By Skadi Renooy
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