Outstanding Dissertation Award for Joris BeckersJoris Beckers won the Outstanding Dissertation Award granted by the Transportation Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. "The logistics sector in a consumer driven society: essays on location and network structure" entangles the spatial component of logistics interactions and highlights how the increasing power of the consumer is impacting location decisions in the logistics sector. This is an especially urgent matter in constrained urban areas, where the demand for home-delivered goods and new logistics services is high. Download the dissertation | |  |
Summer schools COVID-19 updateThe Urban Studies Institute has postponed CityLAB VIII: Sex, Gender, and the City to the summer of 2021. Our other summer school, The Sustainable City, is
still scheduled to go ahead as planned and registrations are still open. A final decision will be taken mid-June. The Department of Transport and Regional Economics's Urban Logistics summer school will certainly take place, online in the worst case. Stay up-to-date about the Antwerp Summer University | |  |
Child health across the rural-urban spectrumHannah Ameye and Joachim De Weerdt measured how child health evolves across the urban spectrum in ten East African countries. In all ten countries, child stunting improves rapidly at low levels of urbanization. Ameye and De Weerdt find that healthcare access and sanitation improve with urbanization and so likely contribute to the initial improvements in child stunting. Child feeding practices also improve but deteriorate at the highest levels of urbanization, possibly explaining why child health outcomes do not continue to improve or even worsen in the most economically active urban
areas. Access the article in "World Development" (forthcoming) | |  |
Pandemics Are Also an Urban Planning ProblemWill COVID-19 change how cities are designed? We have been reading this interview with Michele Acuto,
director of the Connected Cities Lab (University of Melbourne). He talks about density, urbanization and pandemic preparation. Read the interview | |  |
| | | Interested in Urban Logistics? Come to Antwerp and participate in the summer school's interactive workshops and excursions from 17 to 28 August 2020. |
| | | In 2020 we launch a second summer school, on interdisciplinary approaches to the sustainable city. In collaboration with the Antwerp Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development (IMDO). |
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