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30.11.2017
Architectural Exclusion: Race and Class in the CityWelfare and Social Issues

The layout and design of our cities excludes certain people from certain places and opportunities.

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29.11.2017
The Reforms that Europe Doesn’t NeedFinance and Economy

European progressives must prevent Macron and others' efforts to increase the extent of the EU's fiscal union, as these will only make Europe more undemocratic and neoliberal.

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25.11.2017
The City as a BattlegroundSociety, Media and Culture

From centres of economic activity to amusement parks for tourists, what is happening to our cities and what space is left for their citizens?

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25.11.2017
The ‘Guggenheim Effect’: Pride and PrejudicesSociety, Media and Culture

Few cities have succeeded in recreating the success of Bilbao’s Guggenheim museum. What was its secret & what can this tell us about urban dynamics?

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25.11.2017
Whose City Is It Anyway? Reflections on Global Urban DynamicsFinance and Economy

Sociologist Saskia Sassen talks about the role of cities in globalisation, and how citizens can reclaim the rapidly dwindling urban space.

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25.11.2017
Guardians of the Property: Pop-up Housing for Pop-up PeopleSociety, Media and Culture

A new housing phenomenon is spreading across Europe's cities - is it a Bohemian, win-win solution or does it exemplify the entrenchment of precarity into new spheres?

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25.11.2017
Big Fish, Little Fish: The Struggles of Poland’s Small TownsWelfare and Social Issues

Staggering inequality marks Poland's small towns from its big cities - but some towns are demonstrating trailblazing innovative and transformative solutions.

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25.11.2017
Can Cities and Citizens Reinvent Public Services?Welfare and Social Issues

Going far beyond a simple reversal of privatisation, the remunicipalisation of public services is gathering pace across Europe's cities and towns.

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25.11.2017
The City Taking the Commons to HeartGreen Transition

Ghent is the first city in the world to enjoy a commons expert to enshrine cooperation and communal ownership into its very structures.

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25.11.2017
The Order of Barcelona: Cities Without FearFuture of EU

In Europe and beyond, municipalism, rooted in republicanism and enshrined in an ‘Order of Barcelona’ could help fight the ‘inertia of the nation-state’.

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