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Centre for urban research
COSMOPOLIS. City, Culture
& Society

Free University Brussels

Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel
Tel: + 32 (0) 2 629 37 41
Fax: + 32 (0) 2 629 33 78
cosmopolis@vub.ac.be

COSMOPOLIS is related to the department of Geography at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a member of the UAB Urban Studies Network, an interdisciplinary research and teaching network in urban studies.

Recent conference papers

Abujidi, N., (2010), Sustainable urban rehabilitation in Brussels’ Neighbourhood, workshop on sustainable urbanism organized by the Centre for Sustainable urbanism(C.U.S), 6 July 2010, Valdespartera/Zaragoza-Spanish

Abbas, M., Abujidi, N., (2010), Women's urban constraints in public spaces. The case of Nablus city-Palestine, World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, July 19-24th 2010, Barcelona-Spain

Berzin, M., (2010), Luttes et revendication linguistiques: peut on penser Bruxelles comme Capitale de l’Europe des régions? Actes de colloques L’Europe des 27 et ses langues PARIS EILA

Berzin, M., (2010), Proposition de communication, Journée de la Géographie, Bordeaux: Bruxelles et la Belgique: parenthèse ou trait d’union?, Villes et Imaginaires.

Casabella, N., Cassiers, T., Leclercq, E., Vermeulen, S. (2010), Het Plan voor de Internationale Ontwikkeling van Brussel: een verhaal van up-scaling, by-passing en evacuatie van het stedelijk beleid. Plandag Ruimtelijke ordening in crisis, BNSP & VRP, 27th may 2010

Casabella, N., Frenay, P., (2009), Regional planning choices: comparing the RER in Brussels (BE) and the stedenbaan in South Holland (NL), published paper in international conference proceedings, The 4th International Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU), Amsterdam/Delft, The New Urban Question – Urbanism beyond Neo- Liberalism

Casabella, N., (2009), El espacio entremedio: un New Deal para los paisajes metropolitanos del ala sur del Randstad, published paper in international conference proceedings, Terceras Jornadas sobre investigacion en Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Madrid June 2009

Casabella, N., (2009), Stedenbaan through the prism of (socially produced) scale, paper presented at international PhD seminar “Trascending the discipline. Urbanism & Urbanization as receptors of multiple practices, dicourses and realities”, Leuven.

Casabella, N., (2009), Stedenbaan: la ferrovia urbanizada del ala sur del Randstad, published paper in international conference proceedings, Terceras Jornadas sobre investigación en Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Madrid June 2009

Casabella, N., Cassiers, T., Leclercq, E., Vermeulen, S., (2010), Het plan voor de internationale ontwikkeling van Brussel; een verhaal van up-scaling, by-passing en evacuatie van het stedelijk beleid, conference presentation at Plandag 2010 ´Ruimtelijke Ordening in crisis´

Cassiers, T. (2010), Het belang van stedelijke netwerken, introduction to the workshop “Stedelijke netwerken tussen vijf grote Belgische steden”, at the Brussels Citizens University, 2 octobre 2010

Cassiers, T & Leclercq, E. (2009), Analysing the Urban Vision in Ghent and Liege, on good Intentions and dubious Consequences, paper presented at IFoU conference 2009, Delft

Cassiers, T. (2009), The geography of Micro-initiatives, paper presented at Micronomics festival 2009, Brussels

Cassiers, T., Leclercq, E., (2009), On good intentions and its dubieus consequences – analysing the urban vision in Ghent and Liege, conference presentation at ´the new urban question´ International Forum on Urbanism

Corijn, E., (2009), A city in transition, in: Idea for Action Kaohsiung. International Competition Catalogue of Finalists, Kaohsiung, City Council: pp. 18-23

Corijn, E., (2009), Ecoles, cultures, villes et territoires, in: An. La culture au coeur de l'enseignement, Bruxelles, Culture et Démocratie: pp. 10-14

Leclercq, E., Zawawi, Z., (2010), Politics of (re)designing public space – a case study f the city centre of Mechelen, conference presentation at Public Space and the challenges or urban transformation in Europe, SKuOR, Vienna

Levy, S., (2010), Etude logement, Répertoire des terrains publics susceptibles d’accueillir du logement en Région de Bruxelles Capitale, Brussels Citizens University, 02/10/2010

Lorand, C., (2010), Understanding Education through its outsiders: the political construction of dropout in Brussels, 6th international conference on education, pp. 217-225, Samos: INEAG [Proceeding]

Marchand, K., Bontje, M. Loopmans, M. & Vermeulen, S. (2010), Creatieve economieën, in: Het Creatieve geheugen. Stadsinnovatieprojecten rond openbare bibliotheken en creatieve economieën. Antwerpen: Politeia. pp. 160-232. [presentatie van de case Bellevue-brouwerij (Brussel), i.s.m. Wim Embrechts op het colloquium Stadsinnovatie: het creatieve geheugen, 4-5 Februar 2010, Antwerpen]

Vermeulen, S. (2009), Needed: an intelligent and integrated vision for Brussels’ urban planning, Paper presented at the 4th International Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism. ‘The New Urban Question – Urbanism beyond Neo-Liberalism’. Delft, Netherlands. 26-28 November 2009. [Proceedings]

Vermeulen, S. (2009), Urban visioning: between utopia, heterotopia and urban projects. Paper presented in the panel session “Architecture & Planning” at the 10th international conference of the Utopian Studies Society: ‘Far other worlds and other seas’. Porto, Portugal. 1-4 July 2009.

Vloeberghs, E., (2010), Arts and negotiated gentrification. Platform & Festival Kanal in Brussels, presented at the ESF Exploratory Workshop on PUBLIC ART. Public art and its distresses. From mainstream city marketing strategies to a tool for social regeneration. At Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan (Italy) on 21-22 October 2010

Vloeberghs, E., (2010) De jeugd is de toekomst. De meervoudige Brusselse jeugd: wat te doen?Aanzet tot een toekomstig Festival van de Brusselse Jeugd. • La jeunesse est le futur. La jeunesse plurielle de Bruxelles : que faire? Ebauche d’un futur Festival des Jeunesses bruxelloises. at Brussels Citizens University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, on 5 October 2010.

Zawawi, Z. & Abujidi, N., (2009), Transformation of public spaces in armed conflict zones: The occupied Palestinian Territories case, March 19-20, 2009, Delft, Nederlands,

Zawawi, Z. (2010), The Transformation and (re)production of Public Spaces in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, presented in Cork-Ireland - University College Cork: 16th to 18th September 2010

Zitouni, B. (2009), Causality in Urbanism, Metaphors in/on Architecture and Urbanism, conférence internationale organisée par l’Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture de Paris, du 26 au 28 novembre.

Zitouni, B. (2009), Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons, presentation with Philippe Artières of l’action du GIP, Cinéma Nova, Bruxelles, 13 December.

Zitouni, B. (2009), Le ver aux ailes d’aigles ou la pratique des archives, presented at Penser la ville - Penser Bruxelles, 5ème édition de l’école d’été Ilya Prigogine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, du 26 au 28 août, école destinée aux administrations et à l’associatif autant qu’aux universitaires.