Tag: Culture
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What’s the Buzzz?
Un-Yucking the Insect on our Plate In line with our summer school programme “The Urban Food Experience” at UvA, we’ve teamed up with Mediamatic with the goal to create a marketing strategy for a future insect-based item on their menu. Alongside our research, we stumbled upon a few general questions and interesting opinions on why entomophagy (the…
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The City as a Consumed Adjective of Economy
Urban outfits, urban music, urban gardening… What does ‘Urban’ even mean? Federico Savini warns us about overconsumption of the adjective.
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Stories from Third Street 第三街
Stories of the residents and employees of Third Street in Sai Ying Pun, a Hong Kong neighbourhood.
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Casitas in the South Bronx: Making a Place Called Home
Casitas are the colourful clubhouses of Puerto Rican community gardens in the South Bronx. Author Marijn Ferrier explores their history and researches their transormative power.
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Imagineering Cultural Vienna: A Book Presentation
Johannes Suitner’s book ‘Imagineering Cultural Vienna’ offer insights in discourses about culture are shaping urban planning and thus contemporary cities.
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High-end art and the quest for global city status
Are the world’s global financial centers also the world’s leading art centers? Freke Caset investigates the relationship between finance and art.
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Alternative Food Networks in Cities
Over the last couple of decades, urban areas are increasingly characterized by new forms of food production and consumption. The organic food industry in Europe has for instance become an attractive and growing segment of the overall food market in cities (Wier & Carverley, 2002). Existing research about organic food production has characterized organic food…
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Polarised Tehran: Tea House vs. Coffee shop
Reza Shaker Ardekani critically explores the geographic polarisation of Tehran by looking at tea houses and coffee shops as gendered spaces.
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Spaces Left Over after Secularization
Dutch cities are redeveloping empty church buildings. What are these spaces used for and what initiated this trend? .
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The Rise and Death of the Just City of Amsterdam
Donya Ahmadi shows us how Amsterdam is thwarting civil society by blocking bottom-up initiative, Op de Valreep.