Projects
Defining and Designing Executive Discretion in Urban Planning Law: 'Aesthetic value' as a Material Consideration. University of Antwerp
Spatial analysis of urban mobility in sub-Saharan Africa KU Leuven
The proposed research deals with GIS-mapping and spatial analysis of space-time paths in an urban context. Cities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are expanding at unprecedented rates. Because of poor urbanplanning the expansion often occurs in the form of uncontrolled urban sprawl. These developments treat urban mobility, slow down the economic growth and lower the quality of life of many urban dwellers that are often strongly dependent on cheap ...
Anticipatory techniques, urbanism and urbanization: A historical-geographical analysis of techniques of calculation and cartography in 19th and 20th century Belgium. KU Leuven
Staging the past - postmodern public space in Brussels and Istanbul. KU Leuven
This dissertation proposes to apply Henri Lefebvres approach of the production of space to the analysis of public space. A thus historically informed socio-economic analysis of public space does prevent research from falling into the trap of orientalism, rehearsing only the age-old argument that public space in the so-called Orient did not exist due to a lack of democracy, the
lack of women moving in public space, the dominance of Islam ...