The titles and authors of all MSc in Urban Studies theses from successfully defended from the 2026 cohort are listed below.
- “¡La tierra es para quien la necesita!” Urban informality and political ecology in the popular habitat of Tierra y Libertad Osvaldo Aguilar López
- The Porous City and the Politics of Commoning: Urban Commons as Welfare Spaces in Naples Ivan Avella
- Shaded Streets, Courtyards, and Qanats: Creative Adaptation of Historical Climatic Logics in Contemporary Sevilla Anastasia Balian
- Urban food markets in gentrifying environments: the case of Maravillas Market in Madrid and Abattoir Market in Brussels Alba Barrutieta
- Perceptions of Racialized Urban Change and the Erosion of Belonging in Matonge: Policing, Sanitation Discourses, and Afrodescendant Presence in Brussels Ayssatou Lore Bell-Ndiaye
- The Paris Wall? Studying the local outcomes of ring road covering interventions in Paris Timothée Bonnet
- Urban Climate Shelter Networks as Inclusive Heat Adaptation Strategies? A Comparative Study of Barcelona, Buenos Aires, London and Los Angeles Sophie Bourdoncle
- The case of Cosco and China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative in Zeebrugge: Dissecting commercial port development as a continuous territorial (re-)negotiation Douwe Jolke De Jong
- Cooperative Housing for All? The Impact of Municipal Policy Interventions on Affordability, Accessibility and Autonomy of Cooperative Housing Projects Flora Dirr
- “Everything needs to change.” Exploring and Co-creating Alternative Food Visions in Brussels Valentina Donato
- Canada’s National Housing Strategy: Towards Reconciliation in Housing? Isidora Draskovic
- Analysing Leuven’s Climate Fund – how cities aim to attract private capital to fund their decarbonisation strategies. A case study. Yannick Fischer
- Infrastructuring Urban Heat Transformation: The Material Politics of Municipal Heat Planning in Germany Ole Gärtner
- New-Build Gentrification and Local Businesses: Lived Experiences in Cologne-Mülheim Pauline Gnann
- Greening trajectories of renewed urban squares in Brussels and Rome: The role and design of greening in recent urban redevelopment projects Flavio Grazian
- Vienna's Contested Urban Void. Exploring Negotiations between Planning, Politics and Alternative Futures Caroline Heimel
- Urban redevelopment & contested publicness. Navigating through a fragmented neighbourhood. The case of Tour & Taxis in the Quartier Maritime, Brussels Maurine Helin
- The "Landing" of Transnational E-commerce Capital. Logistics-led Urbanization, Institutional Matching, and Spatial Frictions in Liège Yanrui Jiang
- Rethinking liveability. Exploring liveability dimensions and shared socioeconomic pathways as tools for strategic urban development in London Friederike Kamm
- Reclaiming streets in Istanbul: Barriers and Success Factors of Car-Reduction Measures in the global South Turgut Kartal
- Brussels commons as a space of intersectional empowerment Aleksandra Kozyra
- A Life Story Approach to Residential Decision-Making Among First-Generation Immigrants in Brussels. Exploring Residential Aspirations and Capabilities accross the Life Course Nils Lindemans
- The City that Drains the Commons: Hydrosocial Frontiers and Communal Water Governance in San Rafael Cómac (Puebla, Mexico) Marinna Lorenz
- Tearing along the dotted line. Transfrontier Mobility and Multilevel Governance in the Gorizia-Nova Gorica Borderland Arturo Luciani
- Rights without place. Traveller housing and structural antigypsism in Brussels Emilie Martens
- Shared governance for a contested wasteland: conditions of feasibility at the Friche Josaphat, Brussels Aurore Neuray
- Producing rural queer interspaces. An exploratory study of four LGBTQIA+ socialisation initiatives in the Luxembourg Province Liliana Paez Civico
- Cycling at the University of Azuay: Motivators and deterrents to bicycle use among university students Rafael Andrés Pauta
- Ageing Queer in the City: Everyday Urban Experiences and Perceptions of Older LGBTQIA+ Adults in Brussels Solène Pitteloud
- Urban youth centers as a welfare space for Brussels youth and the role these centers play on youth empowerment and engagement Dominique Rael
- Transitory in Transition: Investigating the closure of transitory urbanism under urban redevelopment Juliette Riglet
- From Room to Region: The Sydney GreenWay Exploring tensions in scaling, vision and use along a multifunctional corridor Maggie Rosenwax
- Financialising urban mobility: the Parque Central tunnel and governance priorities in Valencia Antonia Saus Ruiz
- Revealing the City Within: Remembering, Sensing, and Co-experiencing While Walking in Warsaw Savannah Siekierski
- Symbolic Control. The CPL and the Depoliticisation of the Housing Crisis in Brussels Elsa Toravel
- The right to the city after 24. Young people's mobility adaptations following the loss of STIB's reduced public transport fare Cas Van Raemdonck
- Hostile adaptations and the shaping of everyday encounters. The case of the Hub Humanitaire at Tour & Taxis Karol Vargas
- The Platform Next Door. How Platforms Reshape Migrant-Owned Retail in Brussels. A Case Study if Joybuy's Pick-up Points Feiyu Wang
- Superblocks in the Making A Multi-Actor Governance Analysis of Traffic Trials in Stuttgart and Leipzig Jonas Malte Wiemann
- Financialisation of Elderly Care in Flanders: The Local Embeddedness of Care Facilities in Antwerp and Schoten Nayuta Yamauchi