Scientific Research Community
The Centre for Urban History is the core group of the Scientific Research Community (WOG) ‘Urban Agency: Setting the Research Agenda of Urban History’, funded by the Scientific Research Council, Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen).
Starting from fundamental questions on the urban nature of major societal transformations we focus on major themes in Urban History in order to assess and subsequently deepen its potential as a discipline. The following topics will be intensively explored in both preparatory workshops and full-fledged conferences between 2011 and 2016:
- The sovereign city: Levels of governance and the possibilities, opportunities and limits for urban agency
- The cosmopolitan city: Religion, culture, the urban space and migration
- The civil city: Social cohesion and community building in an urban environment
- The creative city: Cultural industries and cultural policy as an answer?
- The ecological city: environmental urban history
European partners
- Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester (Simon Gunn & Roey Sweet)
- Network of Urban Studies at the University of Helsinki (Peter Clark)
- History Department at the University of Amsterdam (Jan Hein Furnée & Clé Lesger)
- Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes at the Université Lumière-Lyon 2 (Jean-Luc Pinol and Denis Menjot)
- Centre for Modern Urban Studies (MUS) at the University of Leiden (Wim Willems, Manon van der Heijden & Miriam Van de Kamp)
- Department of History at the Universiteit of Utrecht (Maarten Prak)
- Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin (Dorothee Brantz)
- Centre for Urban Research at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Martina Loew & Dieter Schott)
- Historical Sociology Department at the Budapest Eotvos Lorand University (Gabor Gyani)
- Danish Centre for Urban History at the University of Aarhus (Sören Bitsch Christensen)
- Department of Architecture and Industrial Design (DIPRADI) at the Politecnico Turin (Carlo Olmo & Filippo De Pieri)
Belgian Partners
- Department of History at the University of Ghent (Marc Boone, Gita Deneckere & Anne-Laure Van Bruaene)
- Department and Urbanism at the University of Ghent (Johan Lagae & Pieter Uyttenhove)
- The HOST-team at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Rina Lis & Anne Winter)
- Department of Art History and Archeology (SKAR) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Inge Bertels)
- Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning (ASRO) at the University of Leuven (Krista De Jonge, Thomas Coomans de Brachène)
- Research Group of Urbanity and Architecture (OSA) at the University of Leuven (André Loeckx & Thomas Ryckewaert)
- Bru-cités at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Claire Billen, Chloë Deligne & Christophe Loir)