CUS Members

Debraj Roy

Sara Özogul

Rowan Arundel

Faculteit der Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen
Programmagroep: Urban Geographies

Els Beukers

Luca Bertolini

Hester Booi

Daan Bossuyt

Willem Boterman

Programmagroep: Urban Geographies

Marco te Brömmelstroet

Marco te Brömmelstroet holds the position of Associate Professor in Urban Planning. His teaching focuses on courses around land use and mobility in the Bachelor and Master program. Marco is the founding academic director of the Urban Cycling Institute that is a part of the Centre for Urban Studies. The Institute leads research into the reciprocal relations between cycling, society and cities and is also actively involved in international dissemination of Dutch cycling knowledge. Examples of latter are the Summer School on Planning the Cycling City, the MOOC Unraveling the Cycling City and the Why We Cycle documentary.

Laurens Buijs

Thea Dukes

Jan Willem Duyvendak

Ewald Engelen

Wouter van Gent

Onderzoeker en docent
Sociale Geografie, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Mendel Giezen

Mendel Giezen works on the intersection between infrastructure and sustainable urban development within the field of Urban Planning. In particular he works on: the upscaling of low carbon urban initiatives; the impact of decentralised infrastructures on sustainable urban planning; and shifting governance patterns in circular urban systems. He has more than a decade of experience in course development, coordination and lecturing, and is the academic director of the Summer School "Planning the Circular City" and the coordinator of the courses "Climate Proof Cities" and "Spatial Implications of Environmental Change". He has published in a wide range of international peer reviewed ISI-ranked journals both collaboratively and as a single author.

Meredith Glaser

John Grin

Natuurkundige van opleiding. Politicoloog en transitiewetenschapper van professie. Voortdurend werkzaam op het snijvlak van wetenschap en vernieuwende praktijk.
Gespecialiseerd in governance en politiek van transities, en in democratische experimenten en nieuwe vormen van demcratisch bestuur.
Werkt aan stedelijke experimenten, energieneutraliteit en circulariteit in de steden.Onder meer betrokken bij het Koppelkansenproject van Gemeente Amsterdam, Waternet en Liander.
Actief in het publiek debat over deze zaken, en over democratische experimenten en vernieuwing.

Joyeeta Gupta

Zef Hemel

Wibautleerstoel grootstedelijke problematiek (UvA), leerstoeltermijn 2011 - 2023.

Deze bijzondere leerstoel is door de gemeente Amsterdam ingesteld voor de studie van de grootstedelijke problematiek, in het bijzonder van Amsterdam.

While big pretentions in the past have jeopardized the future of urban planning, in his research and planning Zef Hemel tries to focus on its core: economy, ecology, democracy, art and imagination. He is searching for a new kind of open planning – a planning which can easily adjust to permanently changing circumstances and benefits from unexpected opportunities. In all his planning projects, Hemel works with artists, invites them to engage with citizens, thus using the city as a ‘brain’, as a potential space of ‘collective intelligence’. Such a radically different – ‘open source’ – planning is needed, because the world is urbanizing fast and seems to be rushing into one crisis after another. Because of the growing complexity, the type of planning required is local, at the level of individual cities and their spheres of influence. The paradox is that this localized planning is global at the same time.

Zef Hemel (1957) is a visionary planner. In the past he was chief editor of ‘Stedebouw & Ruimtelijke Ordening’ (Urban and Regional Planning), the professional magazine for urban planners and designers of the Dutch Institute of Housing and Spatial Planning in The Hague. In 2011 he organized, as a member of the think tank of the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, the symposium ‘Creative Cities’ in Amsterdam. From 2001 to 2004 Hemel was director of the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design. In 2004 he moved to Amsterdam, where he became member of the board of the Urban Planning Department of the city. There he organized ‘The Freestate of Amsterdam’ in 2009, which was the start of a different kind of planning: more open, democratic, responsible, and sustainable. Since 2012 he is Professor on Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Amsterdam (the Wibaut Chair), combining this with planning activities for the Amsterdam Economic Board. ‘Volksvlijt 2056’ was his latest project, an exhibition on the future economy at the Amsterdam Public Library where he tried to engage thousands of citizens by letting them ‘dream their own future’. Hemel studied human geography at the State University of Groningen and wrote his PhD in history of art at the University of Amsterdam, for which he was awarded the Prof. Ter Veen Award 1994.

Cody Hochstenbach

Myrte Hoekstra

Michaela Hordijk

I am human geographer by training, and specialized in urban issues in developing countries in an early phase of my studies. My main interests are urban poverty, urban environmental management, (participatory) urban governance, participatory budgeting, youth in cities, and ‘participatory action research’. All these themes came together in my PhD research ‘Of Dreams and Deeds: Community Based Environmental Management in Lima, Peru’ (1995-2000), which had a strong action research component. I worked with both youth groups, women’s groups and the neighbourhood organizations in participatory planning and design exercises to improve the environmental conditions in their neighbourhoods. This resulted in the foundation of Aynimundo, supporting community initiatives in peripheral districts in Lima.

Rivke Jaffe

Maria Kaika

Maria Kaika is professor in Urban, Regional and Environmental Planning at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. She holds a PhD (DPhil) in Urban Geography from Oxford University, and an MA in Architecture and Planning from the National Technical University of Athens. Since 2010, she has been the co-editor in chief of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and sits on the Editorial Board of European Urban and Regional Studies and Human Geography. Her work has received funding from national and international research councils and organisations (including the British Academy, and EU Framework and Marie Curie programmes). Her research focuses on three interrelated themes: urban political ecology, cities and crisis, and urban radical imaginaries.

At the UvA Kaika promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching with particular focus on establishing a dialogue between the urban political ecology framework of analysis, and planning practices and institutions. She draws particular attention to the processes through which ecological imaginaries and ideas can become planning practices that produce real socio-environmental change. She also focus on key urban socio-environmental challenges that arise from the global economic crisis, notably the increasing exposure of livelihoods, environments and urban futures to the fluctuations of global financial markets, which poses an imminent social risk and a challenge to urban planning and urban development practices.

Linda van de Kamp

Yoga, Bingo en Gebed in veranderende stadswijken

Door middel van antropologisch veldwerk in Amsterdam-Noord onderzoek ik de interactie tussen verschillende groepen mensen en stedelijke vernieuwing. Ik analyseer de dynamiek tussen oude en nieuwe bewoners, ondernemers, kunstenaars, welzijnswerkers, religieuze groeperingen, woningcorporaties en de overheid in hun omgang met industrieel erfgoed. En in de voormalige arbeiderswijken onderzoek ik hoe verschillende groepen mensen omgaan met de veranderingen in de buurten. Hoe kijken mensen naar de buurt waar ze wonen en werken? Waar ontmoeten zij elkaar? Welke verhalen en rituelen delen zij? Ontstaan er nieuwe verbindingen tussen oude en nieuwe bewoners?

Robert Kloosterman

Virginie Mamadouh

Sako Musterd

Joeri Naus

Als onderzoeker draag ik bij aan kennis co-creatie in het 'Koppelkansen Traject Water, Energie & Circulariteit' over duurzame gebiedsontwikkeling in Amsterdam.

Caroline Nevejan

Prof. dr. Caroline Nevejan is a researcher and designer who has been involved with the emerging network society and digital culture since the 1980's. Nevejan is professor by special appointment with the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam (2018-2023). Since 2017 she has been appointed Chief Science Officer of the city of Amsterdam.

Jan Nijman

Anna Nikolaeva

Bowen Paulle

Bowen (Bo) Paulle is presently principal investigator of several projects researching the inner workings and measurable effects of potentially scalable interventions meant to dramatically improve the educational and life outcomes of deeply disadvantaged students (and their families). These students range from primary and secondary school pupils in the Netherlands to incarcerated "violent offenders" in California state prisons. The multidisciplinary research teams he heads are focusing especially on High Dosage Tutoring (HDT) and the Guiding Rage Into Power (GRIP) programs. Paulle is committed to a utilisation-focused evaluation paradigm combining ethnographic detail with the rigour of randomised controlled trials. A guiding notion here is that researchers and stakeholders (e.g., policy makers, professionals, practitioners, philanthropists) should work together to understand (through carefully coordinated experiments) how urgent social problems can be mitigated. Paulle recently set up The Scalable Education Programs Partnership in part to offer insights into the (preliminary) findings generated by his teams.

Fenne Pinkster

Onderzoeksthemas: de alledaagse stad, thuisvoelen, buurtbinding, bewonerservaringen, kwetsbare wijken en sociale menging;

Jan Rath

Hoogleraar Stadssociologie

Universiteit van Amsterdam
Afdeling Sociologie
Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, kamer C6.13
Postbus 15508
1001 NA Amsterdam
06-5540-9466

Richard Ronald

Federico Savini

Onderzoeker in regelgeving, informele en formele regels, gebiedsontwikkeling, politiek en bestuur, macht, duurzaamheid. Focus over stedelijk periferie, new-post-industriële gebieden, de ruimtelijk en beleid impact van circulaire economie.

Pinar Sefkatli

Pinar Sefkatli is PhD candidate as part of the chair Designing Urban Experience at the University of Amsterdam. Her research formulates rhythm as a concept for understanding the social life in cities and for identifying design spaces for social issues, through engaging with the context of Amsterdam Zuidoost. Pinar studied architecture at Delft University of Technology (2015) and at the Polytechnic University of Milan (2013). Before starting her PhD, she collaborated with architecture studios from Amsterdam and Rotterdam, was research assistant at City Rhythm research (2018) and worked for the Chief Science Office at the city of Amsterdam.

Olga Sezneva

Debra Solomon

Debra Solomon is an artist-researcher working on multispecies urbanism as PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam in the Urban Planning and Designing Urban Experience departments. Solomon's research introduces the term multispecies urbanism to describe urban development framed by natural world concerns. In her recent essay Soil in the City: the socio-environmental substrate1 she presents inter-relational engagements between urban natures and civil society. Multispecies urbanism promotes policy innovation for natural world stewardship, recognising humans as participants within a more-than-human habitat. Solomon is founder of artist-activist collective ' Urbaniahoeve ' (the city as our farmyard) producing public space urban food forests and stewardship training. For more than a decade Urbaniahoeve's expertise comprises soil building, food and ecosystem production, climate adaptation, biodiversity and habitat re/generation. Wageningen University (WUR) soil scientists defined the Urbaniahoeve topsoils and public space food forest project locations as "paradise on Earth" in terms of biodiversity. In 2017, Urbaniahoeve was joined by Renate Nollen. Among its new projects is a 55 hectare food forest in Amsterdam Zuidoost's K-borough.

Olga Sooudi

Tuna Tasan-Kok

Professor of Urban Planning and Governance

Petter Tornberg

Yannis Tzaninis

Programmagroep: Political Sociology: Power, Place and Difference

Justus Uitermark

Justus Uitermark onderzoekt steden in vergelijkend en historisch perspectief. Hij kijkt daarbij hoe machtsrelaties tot uitdrukking komen in de gebouwde omgeving: welke groepen en belangen prevaleren en welke worden naar de achtergrond gedrukt?

Els Veldhuizen

Imrat Verhoeven

Arnoud Verhoeff

Epidemiologie, Gezondheidsbevordering en Zorginnovatie.
Grote Stad en Gezondheidszorg (UvA)

Nanke Verloo

Nanke is Universitair Docent in Stedelijke Planologie. Zij heeft zich gespecialiseerd in conflict, burgerparticipatie, en in- en uitsluiting in stedelijke ontwikkelingsprocessen. Ze is opgeleid in zowel Antropologie als Bestuurskunde en gebruikt een interdisciplinaire en etnografische benadering om te onderzoeken hoe steden inclusiever kunnen worden bestuurd, geleefd en beleefd.

Floris Vermeulen

Hebe Verrest

Darshan Vigneswaran

Beate Volker

My research is on conditions and consequences of social networks. I am fascinated by the sociological proposition that people’s relationships are not only a product of their preferences, but also of their opportunities to engage in contacts. These opportunities are determined by social contexts such as the institutions in a society, but also by much smaller contexts such as the residential neighborhood, classrooms, or work organization.

Maarten Wolsink