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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.

Tim CASSIERS

Current Position
Researcher

Contact: tim.cassiers@vub.ac.be

Vrije Universiteit Brussel
WE DGGF, 6F326, Pleinlaan 2,
1050 Brussels,
Belgium

Phone: 02 629 31 85
Fax: 02 629 33 78

Academic background and route:
Master Thesis: Etnisch ondernemen in de transnationale ruimte. De Brabantstraat in Brussel (1999) - Promotor : Prof. Dr. Christian Kesteloot
Publications
Cassiers, T. (2001), Ethnic Entrepreneurship in the European City: Local or Transnational Importance?, bijdrage aan IMES conferentie 2001, Amsterdam
Research Papers
Cassiers, T., Kesteloot, C. en Meert, H. (2000), Enkele ideeën voor de toekomst van de Brabantstraat, op basis van bezoeken aan Parijs, Londen en Amsterdam Cassiers, T. (2000), Synthesenota overlegplatform Koning Boudewijnstichting rond de Brabantwijk
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.