Global Reportage: The Proto City, On Tour

Here at The Proto City, we’re an Amsterdam-based blog with a global focus. But, this autumn, all of our contributing authors will be embarking on exchange and research semesters abroad, leaving Amsterdam behind for a short time while we take our focus globally. Basically, The Proto City is heading on a world tour of sorts, visiting five countries in the process.

Curious as to where we’re going and what we’ll be researching? Read on!

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Donya Ahmadi
Destination City: Boston
Thesis Research: Local context in accommodating collaborative planning and community decision-making

Susu Dobner
Destination City: Portland
Thesis Research: Social participation of the elderly in deprived neighbourhoods

Lukas Franta
Destination City: New York City
Thesis Research: Mass protests in public urban spaces
Articles:
– The New York City Subway: A Transit Museum

Jolien Groot
Destination City: New York City
Thesis Research: Co-working as a new working pattern
Articles:
– The New York City Subway: A Transit Museum

Leon van Keulen
Destination City: Hong Kong
Thesis Research: Impacts of socio-geographical surroundings on expatriate integration
– A Bridge too Far: Bridge to China Threatens the Future of Hong Kong
– The Suicide Cycle Tour: Hong Kong

Jorn Koelemaij
Destination City: Glasgow
Thesis Research: Neighbourhood composition and social exclusion
Articles:
– Food Deserts: Fat-Makers or Fairy Tales?
– The Bourgeois and the Beggarly: A Divided Glasgow

Monte Königs
Destination City: Berlin
Thesis Research: Citizen participation in temporary space use

Adam Nowek
Destination Cities: Hong Kong, Vancouver
Thesis Research: High-rise residential architectural design and place-making
Articles:
– Hyperdense: High-Density Residential Architecture in Hong Kong
– Layered: The Central Business District in Vancouver
– The Curious Case of Vancouver and the Urban Planner

Stephan Valenta
Destination City: Berlin
Thesis Research: Bicycle activism and its influence on cycling policy

While we’re stationed in foreign lands, we will offer global reportage on contemporary urban issues in each of the cities that we will be based in. The articles that we’ll provide from our journeys will include insights into our research, as well as discussions of the salient issues in the cities in which we will be based. Keep visiting this page to see a regularly updated list of articles written on our individual case cities.

The grand tour begins in August and will last until all of us return to the Netherlands during January/February 2013.