The 4CITIES Master’s Thesis
A unique piece of independent research that proves students have developed the skills and knowledge to do scientific research in the field of urban studies, the thesis consists of a well written text in English that has the potential to be published in an academic journal. Students will also demonstrate their speaking skills by defending their thesis during a public session. A thesis judged to be of very good or excellent quality is a strong indicator that the student is fit for an academic career as researcher. The thesis accounts for 30 ECTS out of the program total of 120 ECTS.
Students select their own topic of research, and should consider their personal interests, professional expectations, disciplinary background, and the capacity of 4CITIES staff to supervise a certain topic. The topic should be in the field of urban studies, and will ideally make use of a student’s previous disciplinary expertise while exploring new disciplinary grounds. The thesis should be a mix of theory and case-studies whereby students take full advantage of the European and comparative approach of the 4CITIES program. The thesis should consequently have a strong transnational and comparative angle.
Thesis Supervision
The thesis development process begins in Brussels with the selection of a topic and the pairing of students with supervisors. A series of workshops are held in Vienna, leading to the presentation of an elaborated thesis proposal. Scientific posters featuring first results from field work are presented in Copenhagen, and a final seminar on connecting empirical results with theoretical assertions takes place in Madrid before the beginning of the fourth semester. The final draft of your thesis is due in June after the fourth semester, with a public defense to be held in Vienna in early July. Along the way, various deliverables and feedback from your supervisor will help keep you on track. And of course the entire teaching staff is open to speaking with you about your thesis.
Theses from previous cohorts
The titles and authors of all 4CITIES theses successfully defended in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2024 (no graduating class in 2022) are listed below. Those receiving the highest marks (18-20 in the Belgian system) are highlighted in orange and available for viewing and download.
2024 – Cohort 14
Without Shelter and Without Papers: on housing, resistance, and horizons in urban squats
Isabel Barboza da Silva
The Uneasy Emergence of the Edible Insect Industry in the Netherlands
Raymond Berger
New Nordic Narratives: Sustainability and Storytelling in the Copenhagen Culinary Scene
Robert Lucian Brinkley
Life in the Delivery City: The Urban Experiences of Everyday Instant Delivery Users in Chennai
Sashna Chandrasekharan
Snow-Laden Melancholia: The Urban Imaginary of Istanbul in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Distant
Sumiyajav Dorjrentsen
Forging the Capacity to Act: A Case Study of Regime Formation and Change in the Chicago Metropolitan Region
Catherine Mercedes Friedman
Negotiating Third Places and Retail Gentrification: Unpacking the connection people make to place in multi-ethnic neighborhoods
Divine Masako Ilunga
On the Road to Change: The transfer of Sustainable Mobility Policies in Post-Socialist Chisinau
Sofia Jaravin
The Pink Bus: Decoding Gendered Policies for Everyday Mobilities
Asiya Jawed
Fungiculture in the City: Mushrooming amid a global food crisis
Odessa Kelebay
Food, care and community: Refood Tetuán and a path to a degrowth future
James Kelly
Street Vending in Kathmandu Metropolitan City: An Everyday Political Practice
Anusha Khanal
Who Shapes Participation: Exploring Power Relations in Co-Production of Urban Renovation Programs
Mikhail Kharitonov
TRANSITIONS from THEORY of ‘PRACTICES’ to ‘PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION’ for CIRCULAR ECONOMY: A Systemic Study of Vienna’s Construction Industry
Sukanya Koner
Transformation in Emergency Mode? Exploring the impact of climate emergency declarations on the transformation capacity of two German cities
Selim Kücükkaya
A Historical Interpretation of the Contemporary Experience of Transparent Architecture
Oriane Lecluyse
Reclaiming Madrid: The (Re)emergence of a Movement Resisting Touristification
Juan Lozano González del Tánago
Between Housing and Investments: The Financialisation of Housing in Zurich
Christian Lusti
Cultivating Community Under Capitalist Circumstances: The Case of Folkehuset Absalon
Dennis Marx
The Contested Evolution of Developer Obligations in Bogotá: A Historical Institutionalist Approach on Land Governance
María Paula Moreno Vivas
Post-Yugoslav Culture Centers as Institutionalized Commons: The Case of Center for Culture in the City of Tuzla
Deni Muratović
Navigating the Night: Women’s Safety and Fear in Madrid’s Nightlife
Aditi Nayak
Footprints on the Brick Wall: Exploring the lived experiences of council estate residents in Melville Court
Beatrice Nyimenka Obe
Collaboration in the face of climate crisis? A case study of multistakeholder engagement in resilience governance of Turin municipality
Clémentine Paliotta
Living differently together: Long-Term Residents in Tourism Hostels in Belgrade
Shuang Shi
Investigating the Relationship between Regulation, Policy and Lived Experience of Energy Poverty for Inhabitants of La Cañada Real Galiana, Madrid
Patrick Smith
Uncorking Identities: Exploring Cultural Politics through Wine in Urban China
Danting Yin
Probing into the Life in a Maze of Dominoes: A Case Study of the Livability of Shipai Urban Village in Guangzhou, China
Bijin Zhu
2023 – Cohort 13
Who Owns This Street? Gated Communities of the Collective Defense in San Salvador
Jonathan Ayala Serrano
Beyond the Blue Dot: Rethinking Google Maps’ Role in Shaping Urban Perceptions
José Cano Núñez
The Production & Impacts of Public-Private Partnerships in Public Transport Systems & Urban Regimes
Thomas Carnegie
Irish Communities in Copenhagen and Madrid: Sense of Place and the Construction of Urban Home
Molly Davies
Streets Apart: Mapping Women’s Feelings of Safety Across Lavapiés, Madrid
Maria Lua De Campos Madrigal
Food, Space, Inclusivity: Tracing and Exploring an Ecosystem of Food-based Initiatives in Buenos Aires
Mattia De Vito
All-Inclusive Bed, Bills, and Best Friends: Is Co-Living the Antidote to Urban Isolation?
Rachel Donnelly
Image Campaigns for “Problem Districts” – A Bottomless Pit? Challenging the Paradigm of Destigmatization in Community Development of Dresden-Prohlis
Greta Gabsch
Climate Policy for Whom? Analyzing Challenges and Opportunities for Multispecies Sustainability in the Context of Madrid
Hannah Grijns
Riding with the Flow? Female Migrants Navigating Cycling Mobility Transitions in Vienna
David Hees
Urban Swimming: Exploring Public Perceptions and User Experiences of a Copenhagen Harbour Bath
Carla Hyenne
Temporary Existences in Cities: Diving into Digital Nomads’ Everyday Life in Madrid
Jade Juillet
Coercion or Conviction: Occupational Challenges of Bicycle Messengers in a Neoliberalizing Logistics Sector in Copenhagen and Vienna
Arthur Klingl
Transborder Informality: Migrants’ Survival Tactics and their Impact in the Public Space of Palermo, Italy
Matias Lastra
Biodiversity Crisis and the Extinction of Experience at our Doorsteps: Wildlife gardening guidance as a tool for urban biodiversity conservation
Kaija Kukka Laurila
The Governance Behind the Game Plan: Unveiling Power Dynamics in the Case of Sofi Stadium
Sophia Matheney Alonso
From Cattle to Culture: A Study of Industrial Heritage and Industrialization at Kødbyen and Matadero Madrid
Madelaine Momot
Investigating the Cycling Experiences & Integration Challenges of Copenhagen’s Migrant Women
Tamy Nazha
Homemaking in Migration: The Case of Bangladeshi Women in Lavapiés, Madrid
Geeta Panwar
Curating Streets: The Case of Jægersborggade
Sofia Papakonstantinou
From Colonial Pasts to Decolonial Futures: A Critical Examination of Community Engagement in London Museums
Nadia Priebe
Drugs Risk Pleasure: Care in Lisbon’s Queer Techno Scene
Alec Roth
Designing the Social: The Impact of Architectural Design on Homemaking Processes of Vulnerable Groups
Houyem Snene
The Urban (Im)age: Discourse and Practice of Territorial Cohesion in Selected EU-funded Projects
Riccardo Soave
The Meaning of the [In Between]: An Examination of the Symbolic Meaning of the Physical Environment and its Contribution to a ‘Sense of Place’
Gyde Sönksen
Creating “Streets for Kids”: The Influence of Public Policy on Children’s Active Transport to School in Copenhagen and Madrid
Jorge Villarreal
Subversiveness of Walking: Feminist Artistic Strategies Challenging the Urban
Ewa Wasilewska
Ageing with Frihed og Fællesskab? Reconceptualising the Mobility of Older Adults in Copenhagen
Philippa Winship
Taming the Central Station: A Material Ethnography of Defensive Architecture in Copenhagen
Christoffer Worm Nielsen
2021 – Cohort 12
Experimenting in the city: Urban Living Labs in cooperation with Vienna ́s planning institutions
Christian Allmer
Revisiting the Smart City: A Synthesis of Resident Perspectives, Priorities, and Barriers for an Ideal Smart City in Madrid Centro
Robert Alva
Totality, Incrementality and Strategy: Understanding and Evaluating Spatial Planning in Kyiv, Ukraine
Oleksandr Anisimov
Student (Co)Housing: An Antidote for Modern Loneliness?
Htet Shar Aung
Spatial Planning and Transport-Related Social Exclusion: the case of Mexico City-airport suburban railway line extension
Marco Antonio Barriga Rivas
Where they taste the waste – An analysis of the distribution of participation in Foodsharing e.V. in Cologne, Germany
Lino Barton
Analysing the changing geographies of financial centres: the cultivation of an urban FinTech ecosystem in Amsterdam
Erik Brouwer
Emancipating female-headed households from the domestic sphere: Learnings and challenges from collaborative housing experiences in Madrid and Barcelona
Marina Comojo Soto
Testing Path dependence in regional planning: Change agents in the Albufera de Valencia case study
Rafael del Peral Pedrero
Obliterating history or serving justice: discourses, politics and conflicts of memory in Madrid’s street names
Javier Delgado Saenz de Ormijana
Globalization from below and transition economies: The case of Chinese entrepreneurs in post-socialist Belgrade
Andjela Dostanic
Degrowth Vienna: An Ethnography about the Production of Knowledge
Steve Ehrenberger
Street art as an emancipatory practice: the case of Rocco and his brothers fostering the right to the city
Henry Willem Farr
Beyond the Club: A Feminist Poetic Inquiry to Re-imagine Future Festive Spaces and Practices of the Electronic Scene in Paris
Sarah Gamrani
Exploring Digital Places of Practice: Virtualization, Transfer and Translation of the Design Charrette
Claire Griffith
(De)politicizing low emission zones through collective and individual narratives: The case of Madrid & Paris
Viviana Itzel Herrera Silva
Public art for whom? Exploring the benefits of city-led participatory art practices in disadvantaged neighborhoods of Madrid
Milagros Hurtig
Between Longing and Belonging: The Role of Memories and Narratives in Shaping Everyday City Spaces
Ayeh Itani
Feminist Urbanism for Cities that Recognize a Plurality of Voices: A Collective Assessment of the Sant Antoni Superblock
Belen Iturralde
The Urban Park – A Scenic (Re-)View: A Comparative Analysis of Visitors’ Perceptions of Ørestedsparken and Østre Anlæg (Copenhagen) Based on the Theory of Scenes
Lisa Kampschulte
Interpreting the Portrayal of Fare Evasion in the Media: A content analysis of fare evasion discourses in New York City and Copenhagen
Isabella Pape Knightly Conway
Answering the Call of Nature: Observations and reflections on public participation in strategic park management
Anne Krippler
The role of brand urbanism in the revitalization of inner-city districts
Lea Lewitan
Assessing the Role of Learning and Collaborative Practices in the Operationalization of Flood Resilience: a Comparative Case Study of Nice and Copenhagen
Noémie Marinucci
Exploring how the Covid-19 pandemic has created new possibilities for a more just and sustainable AirBnb model: A case study of Madrid’s Central District
Dillon Martin
Staying and Following as Sources of Knowledge of Public Life and Urban Rhythms
Vivan Monteiro Malta
Biting off more than they can chew? The role of cities in food system transitions
Julia Munroe
Reading Regimes: Mapping the landscape characteristics of asylum seeker arrivals in Nicosia
Brian O’Shea
Sustainable Mobility in Integrated Urban Development: an exploration of Transit-Oriented Development [TOD] elements from the perspective of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Curitiba, Brazil
Maria Natalia Paulino Araujo Alcantara
Closing the Gap? Housing Asylum-Seekers in Temporary Urban Projects
Mateo Piette
Tales of the Square: Analyzing Place Through Narrative Forms on Copenhagen’s Blågårds Plads
Nelson Reed
Transforming Vienna’s Karlsplatz into a Stage for Musical Performance: An Autoethnography of a Street Accordionist
Ryan Simpson
“But I’ve never looked at it as a ghetto” Negotiating Territorial Stigmatisation in a Danish Neighbourhood
Levke Sönksen
Seville’s Cycling Gender Gap: The Utilitarian Use of Bicycles Analyzed from a Feminist Perspective
Inés Tijera Von Holzen
Accommodating Affordability: Delineating One’s Right to Adequate Housing
Kriti Veerappan
Tracing the Palimpsest: Knowledge of Place, Tactics, and Politics in Urban Walking Tours
Ben Weilun Zhang
Urban Land Marketization After Socialism. A Socio-Spatial Analysis of New Belgrade
Marina Zivaljevic
2020 – Cohort 11
Using the City: Applicability of Utopia — A reading between acupuncture and imaginaries
Luisa Fernanda Alcocer Rubio
Understanding Urban Transport Transitions: The Role of Discourse in Cycling Futures and Automobile Dominance
Marie-Charlotte Barnard
Commuting in the Eastern Region of Austria: Impact of recent spatial, institutional, and economic developments on commuting in the urban agglomeration of Vienna with particular reference to the long-lasting political / socio-cultural tensions between Lower Austria and Vienna
Anina Baumgartner
Evaluating the Quality of Urban Streets: A Replication and Interrogation of the Public Space Index in Los Angeles
Joshua Blatt
Creative Tourists on the Basis of Creative Class? Determining the Role of the Creative Class as an Actor of Urban Change
Gvantsa Chubinidze
Governing Sustainable Mobility in the EU: The Multi-scalar Politics of Air Quality and Urban Mobility in Central Madrid
Niklas Bastiaan Dam
Deconstructing the 5G Debate: Key for Unlocking the Digital Age. A Causal Layered Analysis of
the national media’s Socio-Technical Imaginaries, surrounding the 5G roll-out in Brussels
Marie des Neiges de Lantsheere
Researching international student mobility: Everyday life stories of a group of transient students dwelling and learning in four European capitals
Marcela Garcia Loza
Hiding in Hedonism: Exploring Alternative Nightlife in the Photography of Brassaï and Wolfgang Tillmans
Teunis Isaac Hagen
Home making in Informal Settlements: Appropriation, Attachment and Identity Creation of Highly Mobile Citizens in Dar es Salaam
Lisbeth Isabel Huber
Urban Imaginaries in Times of Crisis
Alizé Huberlant
Leaving the Hub Behind: An Exploration of the Migrational Choices of Visual Artists Trained in Berlin
Hannah Jaspar
I Happn to Like New York: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Dating Apps and Urban Users’ Sense of Place
Matthew Lyons
Exploring the Cinematic Urban Nightscapes of Copenhagen and Marseille
Elsa Moulinié
Urban History Matters: An Investigation of Social Housing Models in Two European Cities Running Along Divergent Lines
Cailin Murphy
Mediating the Four Holocaust Memorials in Berlin: An Ethnographic Case Study on Relational Remembrance
Alice Marie Reitz
Urban Heritage Beyond Growth
Alfred Stroud
Collaborative Consumption & Cultural Diversity: The Impact of Meal Sharing Experiences on Social Capital & Cohesion in Amsterdam
James Vandenberg
Teahouses and Coffeehouses: Sociability and Space in Li Jieren’s Chengdu and Heimito von Doderer’s Vienna
Ziyu Yuan
Where the University meets the City: The Regeneration of Urban Space for the University-City Interface
Johannes Bob Zomerplaag
2019 – Cohort 10
Metropolitan governance in European Conurbation: a comparative analysis of consequence of the abolishing and reconstitution of regional governance institutions of London and Copenhagen Metropolitan regions
Vincent Boannor
Private universities as urban institutions: the key relations of private higher education institutions in Berlin with their host city
Varvara Borodkina
Exhibiting the future: Relevancy and inclusivity in city museums’ city labs
Victoria Campbell
From the bed to the city: Microgeographies of homemaking on the run
Arshia Eghbali
Walking through: An analysis of six workshop participants’ reflections on their embodied experience in two urban linear parks – Superkilen and Parque Madrid Rio
Adriana Garcia Brenke
The phenomenon of supermarket housing and its relevance for housing affordability
Melis Günay
The planetary landscapes of ecology: Metabolism along the TransMountain Pipeline
Daniel Hilhorst
The Instagramization of the City: Understanding the Spatial Reflections of Digital Trends
Emma Hughes
The Nature & Extent of State and Civil Society Response to Urban Homelessness: Examining the Housing First Projects in Brussels and Vienna
Anhad Imaan
Contextual architectural practices: The case study school design in focus
Eesha Iqbal
Understanding the politics of institutionalization in alternative cultural centers: From bottom-up to where?
Soheon Kim & Sanila Pradhan
155 photos to find a river: How everyday experience shapes meanings attributed to urban rivers
Mariia Kostenko
Locating Social Innovation: The Governance of Refugee Housing in Vienna
Molly LaMorte
Expanding citizenship’ under Gobiernos del Cambio? The case of the migrant street vendors’ union and Ahora Madrid
Paola Leenhouts González-Espejo
Of placards and hashtags: dissent in physical and virtual spaces. The case of the 2017-2019 protests in Bucharest
Andrei Alberto Manca
Challenges for challengers. An empirical study of demobilizing factors influencing refugee movements in Germany
Verena Mutz
Farming in the Urban Shadow: Agricultural innovation and adaptation strategies in peri-urban Valencia and Copenhagen
Robern Padasas
Communicating the contemporary metropolis: The construction of city imaginaries in urban journalism
Natalia Pérez-Bobadilla
Can architecture be political? Analysis of spatial practices and critical theory of architecture
Sloane Pretto
The role of the urban context in the emergence and development of social innovation: The case of labour inclusion initiatives in Malmö and Medellín
Maria Alejandra Rivera
The city as an archive: A multilayered reading of the roman cityscape
Francesca Spigarolo
Urban school enclosure: investigating ‘bordering practices’ in English and Danish schools
Marcus Stevenson
Integrating informal urban settlements? Learning from Madrid and Montevideo
Felipe Suárez Giri
The Modern Movement heritage: Lessons to learn from practical conservation of the intangible heritage of modernist housing
Alexandra Tarkhanova
Pedestrian underpasses or “podzemkas” in Moscow and Bishkek: An element of Soviet urban planning and its conversion to commercial uses
Dilnoza Tasheva
Consideration of Vulnerable Groups in Limited Profit Public-Private Housing Collaborations in Vienna
Simon Unternährer
The logics of climate adaptation
Serafina Van Godtsenhoven
Contractual instruments as tools for Participation Processes? A comparative analysis of Urban Waterfront Redevelopment Projects
Brigitte Witvliet
2018 – Cohort 09
Instagram in the city: (Post-)Tourism Condition in Madrid and Berlin
Zhanna Baimukhamedova
On symbolic meaning of built university infrastructure and its interpretations by different users
Anna Katharina Beyer
Plovdiv 2019 – Cultural Governance and the Local Scene
Antonia Sophie Bourjau
Memory of 2 Cities: Representation of Medellín & New York in urban narco dramas
Anthony Calderon
Cycling promotion in Post-socialist cities. A comparative study of practices of cycling promotion in Ljubljana and Budapest
Victor Chironda
Politics with Brick and Mortar: Nation-building through architecture in Post-socialist Budapest, viewed through a Post-colonial lens
Maitri Jagdish Dore
Community Development Finance in the US and UK: Financial Inclusion or Inclusive Growth?
Mandy Eidson
Spatialities of Prefigurative Initiatives in Madrid
Maria Luisa Escobar
Coexistence and encounters in the built environment: Practices and experiences of ’living together’ in two diverse neighborhoods of Marseille
Pascale Gagnon-Boucher
The politics of international art biennials. An analysis of documenta14 in Athens and Manifesta12 in Palermo
Carolina Gatti
Digital democratic innovation in Reykjavik and Madrid: an exploration into the democratic design of online platforms in the context of the economic and political crisis
Katie Grigg
Accessing Housing: The strategies of Syrian refugees in Berlin
Charlotte Günther
Powering Social Innovation through Community Energy Initiatives? Towards a Conceptual Framework
Stephen Kent
The Importance of Playing in the City. A Comparison of Children’s Playgrounds
Kim Wan Hee
Post-socialist strategic urban planning as the meeting point of traveling ideas and intertwined geographic imaginaries. The case of Sophia City
Radoslava Kuneva
Queer Space: Inclusive or exclusive? A comparative Study of Two Public Spaces in Tehran and Madrid
Maryam Lashkari
Towards Skateboard Urbanism? Stories from Barcelona & Copenhagen
Julien Moliera
Scantiness in the Bus Rapid Transit Scheme in the European Context: Case Studies from Madrid and Leeds
Mashiat Murshida Binta Murtaza
The Spaces of the In-Between. Contested identities in the divided city of Mostar
Sara Ostojic
Displacement without placement. Street prostitution’s deracination from gentrifying neighborhoods
Adela Petrovic
Metro stations in mega cities. Socio-spatial analysis and the evolution of intra urban mobility hubs
Fausto Prezioso
The Hybrid Urban Factory: A study on mixed-use multi-storey buildings that integrate light industry and residencies in urban cores of Vienna and Paris
Rrita Pula
Walking in the city: Self and spatiality in Copenhagen and Kathmandu
Pranaya Rana
Linking Gayatri Colony and Cañada-Sector 6. The Politics of Urban Citizenship in Informal Settlements of Delhi and Madrid
Daniel Rosenblum
Freegan practices for all: Towards institutionalisation, democratisation and appropriation. A comparative analysis of two anti- food waste initiatives in Copenhagen and Paris
Noémie Siefert
Discursive dread. Construction of urban fear and the ability of public spaces to mitigate it
Maciej Świderski
Local Habits and Global Resources: Reading the urban cultural economy through the Specialty Coffee industry in Madrid and Copenhagen
Fresia Vargas Chunga
Beyond Guggenheim Effect: A Social and Political Inquiry into Museum and City – The case of Migration in the City Museum Movement in Europe
Zhang Yiwu
2017 – Cohort 08
Geographies of Transnational Urban Black Consciousness Through Artists and Activists: Mapping Self-Directed Blackness in Vienna, Brussels, and Oakland
Teju Adisa-Farrar
Collectivizing Care at the Local Level: A Critical Perspective on the Changing Role of the Social Economy in Local Care Policy
Laura Baets
Gender and the City: Intersectionality and Gender Mainstreaming
Safaa Charafi
Between @SOSCarabanchel and #BerlinMemorial: Locating Urban Memory, Conflict, and Digital Space in Berlin & Madrid
Scott Durno-Couturier
Changing Informal Neighborhoods: Social Production of Space and Reterritorialization of the Poor
Tatiana Efremenko
The Financialization of Housing in Madrid & Kyiv
Pavlo Fedoriv
Comparing the Models of Metropolitan Governance: Analysis of Metropolitan Spatial Planning in Madrid and the Ballungsraum Frankfurt RheinMain
Andres Jurado Aguilar
Urban Regeneration and Conflict
Liubov Krutenko
Perceptions of Space in Community-Organized Public Places
Nejc Kugler
Security Theaters in Istanbul and Brussels: The Spectacle of Government Ideology
Damon Major
Towards Anti-Austerity Urbanism? Housing Policy in the Spanish “Ciudades del Cambio”
Laura Martinez Alonso
Assembling the Smart City: The Networks Behind the Narrative
Juan Sebastian Orozco
Architecture of Displacement: Cities of Refuge – Sanctuary or Ghetto?
Nazia Roushan
Between Chaos and Control: An Analysis of Two Spaces of Refugee Arrival Organized by Local Volunteers in Vienna & Brussels
Rivka Saltiel
The Right to Bike: Bicycle Related Autogestion – Transformative Potentials and Limitations of Post-Capitalist Prefiguration
Lukas Schaup
Rescaling Governance, Negotiating Spatiality, and Reframing Citizenship: The Cases of Amsterdam & Islamabad
Sundas Shahid
Livability – How and for Whom? Vienna and Copenhagen According to Monocle and Mercer
Karolina Skowronek
Changing Universities and Movements of Resistance
Yannick Sonne
Reconsidering Contemporary Welfare Regimes: Scalar Transformations in the Social Policies of Housing
Christophe Verrier
Digging in Kitsch Depths: Uncovering Urban Development Projects Skopje 2014 & Inverdan
Iris Verschuren
The Impact of Urban Commons on Social Cohesion in a Neighbourhood: Comparison Between Two Terrains Vagues Appropriated by Informal Actors in Paris & Madrid
Alexandre Wilmart
EU Transnational Cooperation Programmes: Multi-level Governance and Europeanization
Wenque Yu
2016 – Cohort 07
Gentrification and Fear: Transformation of Built Emotions?
Ogül Büber
Post-socialist City and the Grassroots: A comparative study of bottom-up initiatives reappropriating vacant spaces in Budapest and Prague
Eva Esnerova
Staging Urban Europe: Bodily, discursive and scalar politics of community theatre
Peter Koch Gehlshøj
The institutionalisation of the dirt trail: User-driven urbanism in contested spaces
Kai Giersberg
Beyond Hollywood: urban networks in film industry
Dongxia He
Political space matters: On the importance of urban spaces for the political engagement of ordinary citizens
Viktor Hildebrandt & Predrag Milic
City marathons, street races and urban governance: Street running as a new urban experience
Balint Horvath
Blurred Spaces: Shifting Exteriors
Mulghalarra Khan
Postcolonial Properties: The Production of Space beyond Dependency and Globalization in Paramaribo, Suriname
Olivier Maene
Towards Energy-Efficient Buildings: Are We Taming Wicked Problems in Existing Building Stock?
Margarita Nutfulina
Assembling the Smart City: The Networks Behind the Narrative
Juan Sebastián Orozco
Creative cluster effect: How far does it extend?
Victoria Remezkova
Urban enclosures under contemporary capitalism: An analysis of Business Improvement Districts in Hamburg and London
Harley Ronan
Copy-paste (bicycle) infrastructure: The possibility of contextless utopia?
Julie Schack
‘Ethnic landscape’ re-imagined: Imagineering diversity and neighborhood revitalization in Mjølnerparken, Copenhagen, and Rosengård, Malmö
Mariko Sugita
Reconsidering Contemporary Welfare Regimes: Scalar Transformations in the Social Policies of Housing in Vienna and Copenhagen
Christophe Verrier
The Re-birth of the Company Town: How corporations are reshaping life, work & play in the city
Razvan Zamfira & Matevz Straus
Shopping streets: Places of attachment or indifference?
Maryam Zarekeyvan
2015 – Cohort 06
Formalising the informal: Temporary use of vacant spaces
Lorena Felicia Axinte
Train station areas as new urban centralities
Veronica Conte
Another public space: A spatial analysis of migrant networks in public space
Hajra Cheema
Workers and their factories: resilient communities behind ruined localities
Sonja Dragovic
Habits in habitats: School architecture and teachers’ interactions with space in Manchester and Copenhagen
James Furlong
Commitment to pro-environmental behaviour among residents of sustainable neighbourhoods in Zaragoza and Freiburg im Breisgau
Pavel Gladkov
Density: Spatial patterns and perception
Balint Halasz
Location of social housing: Analyzing spatial patterns of social housing
Sandra Jurasszovich
Re-appropriating the city of crisis: Activism and participation in the governance of public space in Madrid and Berlin
Elina Kränzle
Tell me where you are and I will tell you who you are: Case of Muslims in Lavapiés Embajadores (Madrid) and Nørrebro (Copenhagen)
Alona Liasheva
International hub airports in Europe in the context of urban development of metropolitan capital regions: A comparative study of Copenhagen Airport Kastrup and Adolfo-Suarez Madrid Barajas Airport
Liubov Mikhailova
Barriers and opportunities of Muslim women in public spaces: Case studies of neighborhoods in Tehran and Madrid
Parissa Mokhtabad Amrei
Informal public transport: A practice of right to the city
Hala el Moussawi
Demotorisation and economic consumer culture: A contradiction in the post-modern city?
William Otchere-Darko
Local roots and transnational occupation: The potential of highly skilled return migrants to engage in new work in Budapest and Belgrade
Anja Petrovic
Urban green in European medium-sized urban areas: Analyzing the changes with a land system approach
Lucie Rosset
Spaces of interculturalism in inner-city neighborhoods: Comparative study of Nørrebro (Copenhagen) and Lavapiés (Madrid)
Ognjen Šobat
European spatial planning: From policy to project in Budapest and Vienna
Sune Wingaard Stoustrup
Tracing the democratic deficit: An Actor-Network Theory approach to urban governance networks in Madrid and Brussels
Guillén Torres
Norms in rehabilitation of port spaces into public spaces
Maëlys Waiengnier
Exploring solutions and alternatives to sprawl in two contexts: Belgium and Spain
Devon Willis
2014 – Cohort o5
The effects of architectural and planning features on sense of place as an additional explanatory factor for the process of neighbourhood marginalization
Alexander Akishin
Towards the panoptic city? The proliferation of video surveillance in Brussels and Copenhagen
Pauline De Keersmaecker & Corentin Debailleul
Housing affordability in metropolitan housing systems: The case for Brussels and Madrid
Axel Fontaine
Reality and myth of hybrid society: Diagnosing changes in behavior and urban perception in the age of geolocative media through the example of Foursquare
Daria Gilfanova
Radical planning in contexts of conflict
Anibal Hernández
Public life in mixed use developments: the postmodernist planning dream put to the test
Pepijn Kennis
Immigrants from the new EU member states: Policy reactions in Rotterdam and Vienna
Stijn Kox
The European fortress city: The socio-spatial exclusion of asylum seekers in Copenhagen, Berlin, and Madrid
Rene Kreichauf
Marketing the local: Using residence tips in destination marketing
John Mason
Provision and management of mixed tenure housing
Raphael Nagler
Reading an unordinary: A comparative study of two alternative communities in Copenhagen and Berlin
Yalda Pilehchian
Challenges to the sustainability of scaling local civic economies
Kätti Rob
Measuring social sustainability in the small-scale built environment
Louise Secher
Dura lex, sed lex: Insights from operating alternative live nightlife in Lille and Brussels
Maïna Thomas
A comparative study of the context and intentions behind the design of public space and the current spatial and visual realities in London’s South Bank and Copenhagen’s Harbourside
Kieran Toms
Built for sharing? The role of settlement attributes in the performance of carsharing stations
Peter Ulrich
Designing for safety: a comparative case study on design, safety and policy reactions in Patrimoniumshof in Rotterdam and Vincent Van Goghplein in Antwerp
Anne-Linde Van Gameren
Action and interaction in material participation: A redefinition of citizens, local governments, and mediating actors in democratic urban projects
Maud Willemen
The other dimension of living at the top: A study of contemporary residential and mixed-use towers in Brussels and Rotterdam
Hélène Ziane
2013 – Cohort 04
Between cry and demand: Class Composition and Housing Struggles in Vienna and Madrid
Jonas Aebi
Private use of public space: A comparative study in Madrid and Copenhagen
Guillermo Gonzalez Bernal
Spatial proximities and social distances in cases of vertical segregation: An evidence from Athens
Panagiotis Bourlessas
The resettlement of slum dwellers into social housing following forced eviction: A comparative analysis of cases in Istanbul and 4CITIES
Merve Cevik
The inception of planning: Encoding/decoding European UDPs
Julio Da Cruz Paulos
Crises without retail: A street level approach to a global system in Copenhagen & Dublin
Liam Duffy
A recommendation for a bicycle network in Berlin based on the guidelines of Copenhagen
Karen Etropolszky
The night to the city: Nighttime practices of socio-spatial exclusion in public spaces in Brussels and Madrid
Boris Feron
Spaces of creative autonomy? Artistic groups in contemporary urban social movements
Nina Fräser
Youth tourism in Madrid and Vienna: The lure of social media and the Internet in city marketing
Joshua Stuart Growney
Transforming urban space: Planning creative milieus with case studies from Barcelona and Vienna
Vanessa Hünnemeyer
Experiencing Libeskind’s museums: Copenhagen and Berlin
Mai Kjølsen
Order out of chaos: A comparative investigation into reappropriated indeterminate spaces in Brussels, Berlin & Madrid
Hanne Lahousse
Large train station areas in Europe as nodes and places: A comparative research of Aarhus Central Station (Aarhus, Denmark) and Austerlitz Station (Paris, France)
Louise Marzloff
Spectacular architectures versus urban conditions: Are Zaha Hadid’s architectures for Rome and Innsbruck contextual?
Clemens Nocker
Green growth networking: For urban policy learning?
Sandra Scheller
Sustainable neighbourhoods in Europe: Case studies from Malmö and Culemborg
Martin Sonck
The production of urban highways in the 21st century: Four European examples in a global context
Antoine Struelens
Transforming cities for sports mega-events: Another path to accumulation by dispossession?
Luanda Vannuchi
Compact utopias: Learning from past utopias for future eco-sustainable compact planning
Agata Walny
Social housing for the masses: Amsterdam and Vienna – The last ones standing?
Claudia Wilopo
2012 – Cohort 03
Squatters’ Movement and State: Changing Claims in Different Welfare Contexts
Ceren Akyos
Architecture on track: Station design and experience in the case of St. Pancras and Brussels Midi
Roderick Allen
Cycling urban material flows: using waste as resources – lessons from Brussels, Copenhagen, and Madrid
Aristide Athanassiadis
The urban grid: between symbolic and diabolic space
Marta Battistella
Waterways and humanity: Subjective research of urban redevelopment in Madrid and Roubaix
Elizabeth Dickman
Circular dormitories between city and private life: A comparative study of two iconic student halls in Copenhagen and Vienna
Rikke Gram Hansen
The Architecture (+art) of Signature Streets
Joshua Grigsby
Urban mega projects: Urban laboratories for new urbanity
Mohammed Hammash
Representation & perception of mapped space: The use of tourist maps in the imagining of the city
Charlotte Hofmann
Participatory budgeting and the right to the city
Wojciech Keblowski
From urban design to cultural heritage
Emilie Kleinzig
Post-Socialist or post-Fordist? The emergence of new patterns of socio-spatial polarisation in Berlin and Budapest
Bence Kovats
Power to the grassroots? A comparative study of community gardens in Madrid and Paris
Maëtte Lannuzel
Re-imaging of industrial cities: A comparative case study
Michael Luger
Social housing policy and its translation into practice: A comparative case study of public housing allocation in Helsinki
Pekka Marjamäki
Spaces for Consumption and Congregation: Topologies of Themed Consumption Spaces
Marko Marskamp
Urban carbon accounting and urban climate planning: hybridisations of nature, science, and politics
Morten Rishede Philipsen
The role of civil-organisations in the management of public parks
Constantin Scherer
Public space in motion: places of mobility as public spaces in the contemporary city
Gisèle Vervoort
2011 – Cohort 02
The role of community-based organisations in the field of socio-cultural integration: The cases of Brussels and Madrid
Aurélie Baudoux
Zinneke and Schwabenstreich: A performative approach to urban interventions
Claudia Bernhard
Unplugged City: Escaping from global networks and flows trap?
Gonzalo Cantos Mateos
Urban tourism and strategic planning: An integrated study of Alexandria and Barcelona
Muhammad el Daidamony
Railway Stations as New Spaces for Consumption
Zsuzsanna Fodroczi
The attraction of public parks in the post-modern city: An empirical study of Vienna’s Türkenschanzpark and Berlin’s Mauerpark
Corinna Friedrich
The Situationist city today: What elements of the Situationist city can be recognized in contemporary European metropolises and do these aspects bear in them potential for urban change?
Isis Frisch
Green corridors as a way to maintain and enhance urban biodiversity: how are they implemented in the field?
Nora Gosse
New developments in world heritage context: A contextual approach
Mohammed abu Hammad
Fear (less): A case study of high-rise housing estates in Vienna and Berlin
Jessica Kramer
European capital cities à la card: Selling the city via touristic city cards in Copenhagen, Madrid, and Berlin
Paula Mett
Nature and urban form: a comparative environmental history of the Hills in Perth, Western Australia, and Marka in Oslo, Norway
Christian Meyer
Re-thinking festivals: A comparative study of the integration/marginalization of art festivals in the urban regimes of Manchester, Copenhagen, and Vienna
Cecilie Sachs Olsen
Competitiveness VS. Social Balance: Gentrification as Urban Policy in Cases in Budapest and Vienna
Johannes Riegler
Spaces of Autonomy in Copenhagen and Madrid
Tina Steiger
Gentrification through market regeneration? An empirical study of Broadway Market in London and Brunnenmarkt in Vienna
Nicola Thomas
The social benefits of carfree living
Sabeth Todtli
Architecture of power in socio-spatial planning processes: the image of the network in relation to urban planning and politics
Sander Van Parijs
Urban agriculture in Copenhagen and Madrid: Practical applications and the effect of entrepreneurialism
Jacob Waltman
Crime, planning, safety: An inquiry into crime preventive physical planning in Oslo and Copenhagen
Kristoffer Westad
Architecture on display: An analysis of architecture exhibitions at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010 – between art and urban experience
Christina Zaff Juhlin
2010 – Cohort 01
Smart UniverCities: Toward a revitalized town‐gown relationship in 4CITIES (Brussels, Vienna, Copenhagen, Madrid)
Cecilia Braun
The Slow City (Cittàslow) network: Decelerated cities in an accelerated world – between branding strategy and urban reality
Selina Buchka
Film and media clusters in European Cities: Case studies from Copenhagen, Vienna, and Madrid
Silvia Cazzetta
Children’s Participation in Urban Planning: A comparative study of Vienna, Copenhagen, and Madrid
Tabea Freutel
Emergence of European cross-border regions? Case of labour market integration in Copenhagen-Malmö and Vienna-Bratislava regions
Simonas Gentvilas
Belgrade and its Danube waterfront: advanced concepts and current realities
Masan Gosovic
Green roofs: sustainable answer for the future urban development?
Mariya Gyaurska
The media and the square: A Historical perspective on the mediatization of the public square
Markus Maicher
Factors influencing the development of the urban cycling: A case study of three European cities – Brussels, Copenhagen and Vienna
Jonathan Piraux
Urban energy in the framework of sustainable cities: An approach to the development of ‘smart grids’ in the cases of Spain and the Netherlands
Martina Steinkusz
