Rio de Janeiro and Rome in pursuit of tourism
Tourism is a vital part of Rio de Janeiro and Rome's urban economies. In this blogpost, both cities’ recent city-marketing...
Transformation
From Kahvehane to Coffee Bar: Urban Life in Istanbul
The story goes that the Western world discovered coffee after the Turks abandoned the siege of Vienna in 1683, retiring...
Citizen science as a means of democratizing urban environments
Cities for the people, by the people In line with the aspirations of great urban activists like Jane Jacobs and...
lidovienna: Time Travelling the Urban Development of Vienna’s Other River Bank
Researchers from TU Wien have been digging deep into Vienna’s long urban planning history to retrace the paths, contexts and...
One-Hit City Wonder: Düsseldorf and Kraftwerk
The building’s exterior, typical of German post-war reconstruction styles, does not reflect what took place behind the non-descript door. There,...
Implementing Climate Change Goals
In this piece, Maarten shows us how Boston and Amsterdam are becoming prototypes for urban solutions to climate change. And...
Life and Death of Shopping Streets in Vienna
A walk through Vienna’s small neighborhood shopping streets. Shopping streets are lifelines of cities and their neighborhoods, providing the surroundings with...
Yuppie Voting Behaviour: Urban Electoral Earthquakes?
19 March 2014 was a historical day for the city of Amsterdam. On this day, the ‘Kremlin at the Amstel’,...
Theme Park City Zaandam
For those of you expecting a critical assessment concerning the ridiculousness of the ‘theme park-look’ the city of Zaandam recently...
Staying Critical with the Creative City
Lampposts covered in knitting, pop-up parks, and mid-20th Century housing painted with officially-sanctioned graffiti: from New York to Cologne, these...
