Research
The Brussels Centre for Urban Studies represents more than twenty research groups that all do research on urban themes from their own disciplinary perspectives, but also believe in the added value of research collaborations between and across research groups. Please scroll down for a list of all ongoing and completed urban studies projects or read more.
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Access to justice. Urban legal procedures and the usage of the pro bono procedure in civil adjudication in the Low Countries, 16th to 18th century ›
Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO), 2011-2015
Griet Vermeesch
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Artists or Beggars? Adaptive Strategies of Itinerant Entertainers in Brabant (1750-1914) ›
Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, 2012-2016
Vicky Vanruysseveldt, Anne Winter
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Between local autonomy and national migration policy. Dealing with foreigners in Brussels 1830-1890 ›
Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, 2011-2015
Alexander Coppens, Anne Winter
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Building Brussels. Brussels city builders and the production of space, 1794 – 2016 ›
Inge Bertels, Stephanie Van de Voorde, Ann Verdonck, Ine Wouters, Linsy Raaffels, Heidi Deneweth, Peter Scholliers, Bas van Heur, David Bassens, Michael Ryckewaert, Frederik Vandyck
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Building Brussels. Brussels city builders and the production of space, 1794-2015 ›
VUB interdisciplinary project coordinated by Inge Bertels (ae-lab) and co-supervised by Ann Verdonck (ae-lab), Ine Wouters (ae-lab), Stephanie van de Voorde (ae-lab), Heidi Deneweth (HOST), Michael...
Bas van Heur, Michael Ryckewaert, Inge Bertels, Ine Wouters, Heidi Deneweth, Ann Verdonck, Stephanie Van de Voorde
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Cities and Newcomers. Regulating Neighbourhoods of Arrival in Periods of Urban Transition, 1880-1914 and 1980-2015 ›
VUB interdisciplinary project (IRP funding) together with Patrick Deboosere (Interface Demography research group), Anne Winter (Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes research...
Anne Winter, Patrick Deboosere, Els Enhus, Jenneke Christiaens, Bruno Meeus, Ruth Wauters, Nick Schuermans, René Kreichauf, Eric Corijn, Bas van Heur
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City and Society in the Low Countries, 1200-1850 ›
Belspo (Belgian Science Policy Office) funding, 2012-2017
Janna Everaert, Marjolein Schepers, Frederik Buylaert, Anne Winter
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dec²4susts. Towards sustainable transport. The development of an External Cost Calculator for sustainable transport scenarios ›
Interdisciplinary Research Programme VUB funding, 2012-2016
Frank Canters, Cathy Macharis, Koen Putman, Kasper Cockx
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Entrepreneurial strategies of building contractors ›
The case of Antwerp, 1490-1670. Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, 2013-2016
Heidi Deneweth
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Entrepreneurs, master craftsmen, workers and merchants. Relations of production in the Brussels' building trades, 1685-1789. ›
Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, 2012-2017
Boris Horemans, Anne Winter
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Explaining the great litigation decline ›
The impact of social-economic change on litigation patterns in early modern Europe. The case of Bruges and the Liberty of Bruges. Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO), 2014-2018
Ans Vervaeke, Griet Vermeesch
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FLAMENCO ›
The goal of FLAMENCO is to build and valorise an open reusable and reconfigurable citizen observatory platform for Flanders. Through this platform, stakeholders themselves can instantiate new...
Jos Pierson, Lizzy Bleumers