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Bas van Heur is professor of urban studies, head of the research unit Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, director of the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, and programme director of the Erasmus Mundus MSc 4Cities as well as the VUB-ULB MSc in Urban Studies.
His overarching interest is in the politics of urban development, focusing in particular on the ways in which state institutions at various scales (try to) regulate and govern social relations through the mobilization of different kinds of knowledge and expertise. Underlying this interest is a more normative concern with state-society relations and the capacity of civic actors to develop public knowledge about the city and democratic forms of collective organisation.
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NSIS4: Brussels Centre for Urban Studies (BCUS)
van Heur, B., Ryckbosch, W., Gonzalez Fuster, G., Keserü, I., Sepp, A., De Melo Melgaço, L., Gadeyne, S., Van de Voorde, S. & De Donder, L.
1/11/24 → 31/10/29
Project: Fundamental
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IOF3029: House of Sustainable Transitions
Macharis, C., Galle, W., Mommens, K., Blondeau, J., Runacres, M., Oberthur, S., Lizarazo Rodriguez, C. L., Keserü, I., Bram, S., Thiery, W., Kuppens, T., Aerenhouts, D., Deliens, T., Kalimo, H., Meyer, T., Shahin, J., Trauner, F., Buldeo Rai, H., Willems, K., Bossuyt, F., Tysmans, T., De Temmerman, N., De Laet, L., Mertens, E., De Proft, F., Henrard, K., van Heur, B., Ginis, V., Te Boveldt, G. & Vervoort, I.
1/01/24 → 31/12/28
Project: Applied
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BASGO11: OZR Basisfinanciering voor Grote Onderzoeksgroepen - COSMOPOLIS
1/01/24 → 31/12/25
Project: Fundamental
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Studying the institutionalisation of urban studies: Fragmentation, the place of disciplines, organisational form
Heur, B. V., 25 Feb 2024, In: Dialogues in Urban Research. 2, 1, p. 114-119 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Urban vacancy in Europe: A synthetic review and research agenda
Heur, B. V., 29 Mar 2024, 32 p.Research output: Other contribution
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WELCOMIN Research Project - Rapport d'activités de mi-parcours
Lenna, V. & van Heur, B., 2024, (Submitted) 31 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other report
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What, where and who is urban studies? On research centres in an unequal world
van Heur, B., 2024, In: Dialogues in Urban Research. 2, 1, p. 63-90 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Collective cultural infrastructures: ownership, architecture, governance
van Heur, B., Silvrants-Barclay, E. & Agha, M., 2023, In: Cultural Trends. 32, 5, p. 569-575 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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Infrastructures of Urban Welfare - StadsSalonsUrbains lecture series 2025
Verena Lenna (Organiser), David Bassens (Organiser), Lena Imeraj (Organiser) & Bas van Heur (Organiser)
2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in or organizing a public lecture/debate
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Hanne Dewinter: Another urban legend? The role of participatory arts practices in relation to urban living, Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy, Ghent University (Event)
Bas van Heur (Jury)
2023Activity: Membership › Member of PhD committee
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StadsSalonsUrbains lectures series 2023-2024: “rewind, fast forward. unravelling the historical layers and meanings of our built environment"
Stephanie Van de Voorde (Chair), Lena Imeraj (Organiser), Bas van Heur (Organiser) & David Bassens (Organiser)
20 Oct 2023 → 24 May 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in or organizing a public lecture/debate
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Caring is Owning: Designing Community Welfare Infrastructures for a Resilient City. Design workshop organized in the context of the Innoviris-funded WELCOMIN project. Co-organized with Verena Lenna, Arshia Azmat, and Nele Aernouts.
Bas van Heur (Organiser), Verena Lenna (Organiser), Nele Aernouts (Organiser) & Arshia Ali Azmat (Organiser)
2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in or organizing a festival/exhibition
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Board member of the Research Hub Urban and Socio-Environmental Transformations (USET) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Université libre de Bruxelles (External organisation)
Bas van Heur (Member)
2023 → …Activity: Membership › Work on academic committees and working groups