Earn & Spend

Labour & Urban Economics

Iris van Gent November 5, 2018 0

The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco is known as the heart of the 1960s hippie movement. The “Summer of Love”...

The Southern-Belgian former industrial stronghold of Charleroi is dealing with a rather differing reputation. Some people associate the city with...

Margot Abord November 23, 2015 0

It all started when the neighbor on my right knocked at my door to borrow the extra mattress I had...

Yuki Yamamoto November 9, 2015 1

There are hundreds of local currencies - on the scale of cities or even neighbourhoods - but not many are...

Freke Caset August 24, 2015 1

Academically, global cities have usually been approached in terms of their economic competitiveness as nodes within the network of globalized...

Robert Kloosterman July 6, 2015 0

The building’s exterior, typical of German post-war reconstruction styles, does not reflect what took place behind the non-descript door. There,...

Adam Nowek March 23, 2015 0

Vice. Excess. Indulgence. The Las Vegas Strip holds a number of well-deserved stereotypes that emerges from a tourism sector that is...

Michael Schwind February 23, 2015 7

Finding the local at the international airport “Are you sure this is Paris, France?” — In Jacques Tati’s famous film...

Leon van Keulen January 5, 2015 0

Highly-skilled migrants – expats – entail an ever larger part of the urban society. In the current global economy, cities, regions,...

Skadi Renooy November 10, 2014 3

There is no city that has undergone such a tumultuous development history as Detroit. Once being the fastest growing city...

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