City Rankings and Their Irrelevance
A recent satire released on syruptrap.ca entitled “Vancouver ranked the most city in the world,” exemplifies the usefulness and wealth...
Year: 2014
Brand Old Skopje
This article has kindly been offered by the LSEE Blog (run by LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe) to The...
Cities on Speed – Bogotà Change
This story begins back in 1993, when philosopher - mathematician Antanas Mockus resigned as president of the University of Bogotà for mooning...
Finding Whose Right? A Paris Love (Lock) Story
The case of Paris’ love locks on bridges, and as a result the bridges’ partial collapse, bring into sharp focus...
Neukölln: State-Supported Gentrification in Denial
This contribution is based on the paper ‘Stakeholder Representations of Marginal Gentrification in Amsterdam and Berlin: A Marginal Process?’ published in...
Amsterdam’s Afterthought: Touring the A10
Many cities are defined in part by their urban road networks: Los Angeles had its freeways famously categorised as bourgeois or gangster by...
Indelible City Pride: Urban Tattoos
In the last moments of t-shirt weather, get outside and do a little people watching. Pay particular attention to bare...
Can Detroit Boogie Back?
There is no city that has undergone such a tumultuous development history as Detroit. Once being the fastest growing city...
The Walking Dead: Rethinking the Amsterdam Canal
In search of Walking Space TRRRING! ‘Get out of the way!’ A widely heard cry as a result of an...
Vancouver: Victim of Its Own Success
Vancouver consistently ranks amongst the top five most liveable cities in the world. Its high rate of liveability combined with the...
