Projects per year
Personal profile
Expertise
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.
Fingerprint
Dive into the research topics where Bas van Heur is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
- 1 Similar Profiles
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Recent external collaboration on country/territory level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots or
-
FWOSAB18: Scientific assignment: Sabbatical period from 01/10/2025 tot en met 30/06/2026 (9 Months)
van Heur, B. (Administrative Promotor)
1/10/25 → 30/09/26
Project: Fundamental
-
NSIS4: Brussels Centre for Urban Studies (BCUS)
van Heur, B. (Administrative Promotor), Ryckbosch, W. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Gonzalez Fuster, G. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Keserü, I. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Sepp, A. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), De Melo Melgaço, L. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Gadeyne, S. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Van de Voorde, S. (CoI (Co-Promotor)) & De Donder, L. (CoI (Co-Promotor))
1/11/24 → 31/10/29
Project: Fundamental
-
BASGO11: OZR Basisfinanciering voor Grote Onderzoeksgroepen - COSMOPOLIS
Bassens, D. (Administrative Promotor) & van Heur, B. (Administrative Promotor)
1/01/24 → 31/12/30
Project: Fundamental
-
IOF3029: House of Sustainable Transitions
Macharis, C. (Administrative Promotor), Galle, W. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Mommens, K. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Blondeau, J. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Runacres, M. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Oberthur, S. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Lizarazo Rodriguez, C. L. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Keserü, I. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Bram, S. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Thiery, W. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Kuppens, T. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Aerenhouts, D. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Deliens, T. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Kalimo, H. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Meyer, T. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Shahin, J. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Trauner, F. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Buldeo Rai, H. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Willems, K. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Bossuyt, F. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Tysmans, T. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), De Temmerman, N. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), De Laet, L. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Mertens, E. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), De Proft, F. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Henrard, K. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), van Heur, B. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Ginis, V. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Te Boveldt, G. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Van Bockhaven, J. (Mandate), Vermeiren, T. (Mandate), Betancur Arenas, J. (Mandate) & Lode, M. L. (Mandate)
1/01/24 → 31/12/28
Project: Applied
-
FWOTM1090: Measuring job quality of urban gig workers in Brussels. Construction of an empirical research instrument.
Vandevenne, E. (Mandate), Vanroelen, C. (Administrative Promotor) & van Heur, B. (Co-Promotor)
1/11/21 → 31/10/26
Project: Fundamental
-
Caring for space. Spaces for caring
Lenna, V., Azmat, A. A., van Heur, B. & Aernouts, N., 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: Sub\urban. 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
The slow dissolution of urban geography, the multiple lives of urban studies
Heur, B. V., 28 Jan 2026, In: Urban Geography. 47, 3, p. 716-726 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Cultuur regionaliseren in Brussel? Fundamenten, kansen, obstakels
Garcia Guillen, E., Svobodova, K., Vanhaesebrouck, K. & van Heur, B., 4 Feb 2025, Brussel in een België met vier Gewesten?: Uitdagingen, kansen en vooruitzichten. Moors, D., Vandenbroucke, A., Degryse, I. & Boone, S. (eds.). Brussels Studies Institute, p. 77-101 25 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
Open Access -
Urban vacancy: mapping the European research landscape
van Heur, B., Jun 2025, In: European Journal of Spatial Development. 22, 1, p. 1-32 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile2 Citations (Scopus)5 Downloads (Pure) -
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
Open AccessFile34 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
-
ReBUILD - Co-designing a resource-building system for the sufficient repurposing of vacant buildings
van Heur, B. (Recipient) & Lenna, V. (Recipient), 2025
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Activities
-
Infrastructures of Urban Welfare - StadsSalonsUrbains lecture series 2025
Lenna, V. (Organiser), Bassens, D. (Organiser), Imeraj, L. (Organiser) & van Heur, B. (Organiser)
2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in or organizing a public lecture/debate
-
Board member of the Research Hub Urban and Socio-Environmental Transformations (USET) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Université libre de Bruxelles (External organisation)
van Heur, B. (Member)
2023 → …Activity: Membership › Work on academic committees and working groups
-
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.
van Heur, B. (Organiser), Lenna, V. (Organiser), Aernouts, N. (Organiser) & Azmat, A. A. (Organiser)
2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in or organizing a festival/exhibition
-
StadsSalonsUrbains lectures series 2023-2024: “rewind, fast forward. unravelling the historical layers and meanings of our built environment"
Van de Voorde, S. (Chair), Imeraj, L. (Organiser), van Heur, B. (Organiser) & Bassens, D. (Organiser)
20 Oct 2023 → 24 May 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in or organizing a public lecture/debate
-
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)
van Heur, B. (Jury)
2023Activity: Membership › Member of PhD committee