Publicaties
Chasing the phantom of a‘global end game’: The role of management consultancy in the narratives of pre-failure ABN AMRO Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Can the Straw Man Speak? An Engagement with Postcolonial Critiques of ‘Global Cities Research’ Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Planning for agglomeration economies in a polycentric region: Envisioning an efficient metropolitan core area in Belgium Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Manning circuits of value: Lebanese professionals and expatriate world-city formation in Beirut Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Reexamining transport poverty, job access, and gender issues in Central and Eastern Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent
Tirana, the Balkan capital examined in this study, displays patterns of gendered job search behavior and access, which are unique within contemporary Europe and even within post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. Here, it is a rather spatially constricted job search range rather than transport poverty that prevents women living in first-ring suburbs from attaining satisfactory employment. Female commutes are extraordinarily short and most ...
De schaal van de stad of de Brusselse metropool: van Ottignies tot Mechelen, van Aalst tot Leuven? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Voetgangersgebieden en winkelwandelstraten: instrumenten voor binnenstedelijke transformatie? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Transport policy in Belgium: Translating sustainability discourses into unsustainable outcomes Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen
In this paper, we challenge the so-called orthodox sustainable transport vision, by confronting it with two possibly troublesome issues; (1) the urge for growth, and (2) the question of social justice. On the basis of seven cases from Belgium, a country with a strong commuting culture and a traditional tendency towards multimodality, we show that the conversion of a sustainability discourse into policy actions often leads to realisations ...