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
Tim CASSIERS
Current Position
Academic researcher
Contact
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
WE DGGF, 6F326, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: 0032 2 629 31 85
Fax: 0032 2 629 33 78
Email: tim.cassiers@vub.ac.be
Diplomas
Licentiaat in de geografie – specialisatie sociale en economische geografie, KULeuven (2009)
Master Thesis: Etnisch ondernemen in de transnationale ruimte. De Brabantstraat in Brussel Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Kesteloot
Research
Current research projects:
GROSE – Economic Growth and Social Exclusion in Belgian cities
Situation of Brussels Metropolitan Region
Publications 2009-2010
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 Vandermotten, C, Leclercq, E, Cassiers, T & Wayens, B (2009) The Brussels Economy, in: Brusselsstudies, SGB 7
Favourite urban spot
In summer, on a sunny day, it’s definitely the Josaphat park in Schaarbeek. You may want to have a beer in one of the archers’ guild’s cafés (one is from the Dutch speaking guild, the other one is French speaking, of course). Their standing ‘wips’ are dominating the field, artefacts of a past that is struggling to survive the present. Nowadays, those wips are more often used by the local multicultural youth, who don't have a clue of this past, but who assume they’re very good goalposts.
Vacancy: Assistant/Associate Professor Economic Geography
A tenured full/time position in economic geography is available at COSMOPOLIS (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) to begin October 2012.
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