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Mapping the shadow economy: spatial variations in the use of high denomination bank notes in Brussels city-region
Get PDFThe aim of this paper is to map the spatial variations in the size of the shadow economy
within Brussels. Reporting data provided by the National Bank of Belgium on the deposit of high
denomination banknotes across bank branches in the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital
Region, the finding is that the shadow economy is concentrated in wealthier populations and not
in deprived or immigrant communities. The outcome is a call to transcend the association of the
shadow economy with marginalized groups and the wider adoption of this indirect method when
measuring spatial variations in the shadow economy
Creative Networks and the City
Get PDFThis book offers a fundamental contribution to the literature on the creative industries and the knowledge-based economy by focusing on three aspects: urban spaces as key sites of capitalist restructuring, creative industries policies as state technologies aimed at economic exploitation, and the role of networks of aesthetic production in inflecting these tendencies. It simultaneously goes beyond these debates by integrating a concern with the cultural and aesthetic dimensions of the creative industries. As such, the book is relevant to researchers interested in the transdisciplinary project of a cultural political economy of creativity and urban change
Thinking Public Spaces through the Spatiality of Arab Women; The Case of Nablus-Palestine
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Via2018.University: Emancipatory Practices, Regional Strategies, and a Research Program:Position paper for the VIA2018 project office in preparation for the bid book Maastricht European Capital of Culture 2018
Get PDFVia2018.University: Emancipatory Practices, Regional Strategies, and a Research Program:Position paper for the VIA2018 project office in preparation for the bid book Maastricht European Capital of Culture 2018
Get PDFUrban laboratories: Experiments in reworking cities
Get PDFThe notion of the 'urban laboratory' is increasingly striking a chord with actors involved in urban change. Is this term simply a metaphor for urban development or does it suggest urbanization by substantially different means? To answer this question, we review the work of science and technology studies (STS) scholars who have empirically investigated laboratories and practices of experimentation over the past three decades to understand the significance of these spaces of experimentation in urban contexts. Based on this overview of laboratory studies, we argue that urban laboratories and experimentation involve three key achievements - situatedness, change-orientation and contingency - that are useful for evaluating and critiquing those practices that claim to be urban laboratories. We conclude by considering some future directions of research on urban laboratories. © 2013 Urban Research Publications Limited
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