What was the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on your institution or company? The immediate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the various policy measures taken were that we had to reorganise the way we work. This was however less challenging for us than for many of our clients and cooperation partners. As we work …
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by Bozhidar Ivanov, early stage researcher at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern My winter semester in TU Kaiserslautern ended with extreme exhaustion and a lingering feeling of insecurity due to the first cases of Covid-19 in Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany); therefore, I was really looking forward to moving to Amsterdam for my secondment. I had prepared a …
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Notes from the 7th Winter School on Research Methodology in social sciences, urban studies and spatial planning in Florence, Italy How better to escape the rain and hail in Kaiserslautern at the end of January 2020 than by attending a three days long winter school in Florence? The winter school, which greeted me with 15°C …
After the first eight months of our PhD, we reached out to our fellow early-stage researchers to find out about their experience so far.
The case of “El Bosque del Diente” in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara by Simone Di Pietro, ESR at the University of Guadalajara RE-CITY project, and Osvaldo González Cisneros, PhD student at University of Guadalajara This post presents field work carried out with participant observation methodology, as part of the research project “Urban green spaces …
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RE-CITY: Reviving Shrinking Cities