‘The city is collapsing under our very own eyes’. Spaces and emotions of the Dutch urban crisis

Author Biography

• Tim Verlaan, Amsterdam Centre for Urban History
  Tim Verlaan, Dr., is assistant professor in urban history at the Amsterdam Centre for Urban History and associate editor for Urban History. He was invited as a visiting scholar to New York's Fordham University, the Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung in Erkner and the Centre for Urban History in Leicester. Research interests: post-war urban renewal and gentrification in Western European cities. He wrote a doctoral thesis on the politics of urban redevelopment in Dutch cities during the 1960s and 1970s, which was subsequently published: De ruimtemakers. Projectontwikkelaars en de Nederlandse binnenstad, Nijmegen 2017.