Why cities need economic intelligence The economies of Europe’s cities are changingfast, and it is not easy to predict which segmentsof the local economy will grow and which oneswill decline. Yet, cities must make decisions as towhere to invest, and face a number of questionsthat are difficultto answer:Where …

Europe’s urban economies do not look the same as ten years ago. And in ten years from now,they will again be different. The digital revolution is particularly disruptive: entire sectors are being transformed, old players are losing out, newcomers are taking over, and competition is fiercer than ever. …

… and longer-term post-disaster goals such as increasing … from the departments of Spatial Planning and Environment, … climate change adaptation and urban green space/urban gardening, …

Bildung can be seen as a pedagogy of Interruption that opens up a “concern for publicness” (Biesta 2011) This in order "to disclose the identity of the agent, and to actualize our capacity for freedom. To perform what is “infinitely improbable”. (Arendt 1958) The function of such education is Subjectification: …

The concept originated from a brainstorm session with the project leader and the executive. Where the idea was to follow a professional cyclist with a drone. However soon thereafter it was realised that the project would not be limited to just following cyclist. Hence the name FollowMe. The target …

“Most people have known someone in their life who helped them, at just the right moment, to realize their goals or have given them the confidence, which they lacked, to get to the next step in their life.” (Joost van Rossum, 2012)

About this publication: What is the correlation among the creative industries, creative industry policies, new media paradigms and capitalism as colonial relations of dominance? What is the role of these industries in the prioritization of the interests of capital at the expense of those of society and …

This article demonstrates ‘the stemfie’ to be an interesting current example of the enactment of liveness within media practices. The photo taken of oneself while (or just after) voting and consequently shared with others via online social networks, connects us to an event that is important to us as …

Een goede stadslogistiek is belangrijk voor de economische vitaliteit en de aantrekkelijkheid van steden. Het zorgt ervoor dat restaurants hun gasten kunnen bedienen, winkels op tijd de nieuwste collectie in huis hebben en de verbouwing probleemloos verloopt. Verstedelijking stelt nieuwe eisen aan stedelijke …

This thesis seeks to discover how personal leadership education functions in the Netherlands and to suggest recommendations for its improvement. To this end, personal leadership courses and students’ attitudes towards those courses at six higher education institutions were researched. Personal leadership …