by dirkholemans | Jan 20, 2020 | Articles
The new role of cities in our society. Almost 75% of Europeans live in cities nowadays. At the same time, cities are becoming a crucial transnational governance level. They are organising themselves in a whole tissue of networks, like Eurocities, Fearless Cities or...
by dirkholemans | May 20, 2019 | Articles
Imagine: an urban politician wants to impose that some streets become car-free during summer. Even if reasons are good – better air quality, kids get room to play – the result is quite predictable. The residents of the streets would revolt, for different reasons. Some...
by dirkholemans | Apr 8, 2019 | Articles
From the gilet jaunes to young climate marchers around the world, a new surge of protestors is voicing discontent and demanding a change of course to ensure a sustainable future that is fair to citizens and environment. Dirk Holemans gives his take on striking a new...
by dirkholemans | Dec 5, 2018 | Books
A closer look at citizen collectives established in 2015 and 2016 In order to find responses to current societal challenges, citizens increasingly take control, including in the form of citizen collectives that produce goods or services themselves, usually as a quest...
by dirkholemans | Nov 13, 2018 | Books
Housing, food and slow roads as reinvented commons Land has been privatized, parceled and marketed for more than two centuries. And for a while there are timid attempts to stop or reverse that process – think of rent, social housing, nature restoration or urban...
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