Islandness of Bermuda and Pitcairn Island
| Date: | 28 February 2023 |
| Author: | Seun F. Oladipo |
One-tenth of the world’s population lives on islands, with their exclusive economic zones occupying one-sixth of the planet’s surface (Baldacchino, 2006). Islands are a type of geographical feature that can appear, change, and even vanish. They are...
Summer/Winter School Series: “Islands as Laboratories for Sustainability (ISLAs)”
| Date: | 23 February 2023 |
| Author: | Sarita Mahtani-Williams |
Beyond neoliberal housing in Amsterdam: a tale of tactics, tenure and territorialization
| Date: | 25 January 2023 |
| Author: | Bart Popken |
Squatting practices have become more fragmentized, strategic and hostile compared to the 1960s in the Netherlands. During the 60s, free spirited spaces in the form of vacant buildings were envisaged as opportunities for collective support and empowerment...
An effective community-driven sustainable resource management actions in Simeto Valley, Italy
| Date: | 08 November 2022 |
| Author: | Kolade Victor Otokiti |
The focus of this essay is to examine effective community-driven sustainable resource management actions in Simeto Valley, Italy, and help the United Nations identify potent place-based community initiatives that may be encouraged in communities with...
Resistance as Autonomy in Kalaallit Nunaat - the case of rare-earth mining for sustainability
| Date: | 13 October 2022 |
| Author: | Sissal Tókadóttir Dahl |
During my first year as a bachelor student in a renowned university frequently hosting talks by well known people, I listened to a talk by experts in national autonomy and independence processes. It was during the time when Catalonia was a hot topic, and a...
Killing for Care: Pilot Whaling in the Faroe Islands
| Date: | 24 May 2022 |
| Author: | Emma Mayhew |
Pilot whaling has been a part of Faroese culture since at least the sixteenth century (Fielding et al. 2015; Fielding, 2010), being one of the best documented and arguably most sustainable harvesting practices in the world. Every year the Faroese people...
Doing 'regional research' in the Northern Netherlands: reflections from a 'global' student team
| Date: | 15 July 2021 |
Collaborative planning - the next step in democracy or a trap for populism?
| Date: | 17 March 2021 |
| Author: | Ido Marom & Jort de Vries |
The 20th century discourse on communicative rationality gave rise to a new paradigm in planning theory - the communicative (collaborative) paradigm. It calls for the breaking of scientific objectivism and building one based on agreement between individuals...
Caravan Dwellers versus the Tiny Houses Movement
| Date: | 04 November 2020 |
| Author: | Ana Polgar and Irina Krottje |
Review: A Woman's World
| Date: | 29 April 2020 |
| Author: | Melissa Ernstberger & Kiek Korevaar |
On the 21st of February, Place of Places hosted their first event of the year, a collaboration between students of the Faculty of Spatial Sciences and City Central. The event, “A Woman’s World,” aimed to facilitate a discussion space for a geographical...