Guinea is one of the poorest countries in the world, as is reflected in its health indicators (Eckert 2002). According to the Demographic and Health Survey III (DNS/Macro 2006), Guinea’s maternal mortality ratio is 980 for 100,000 live births, and it has a neonatal mortality rate of 39 for 1,000 live births. In 1997, the government of Guinea, in collaboration with UNICEF, set up a project to re...

Contemporary evaluations of urban growth management (UGM) strategies often take the shape quantitative measurements land values and housing prices. In this paper, we argue that it is key importance these also analyse policy formulation implementation phases strategies. It in institutions discourses are (trans)formed which UGM embedded. This will enable us to better understand conditions for pol...

Further integration of different spatial scales in concentration modeling is important for assessing the European limit values for NO2. The local NO2-concentrations are influenced by the regional background, the local emissions and the street canyon effects. Therefore, it is important to combine all these contributions in the model chain that one wants to use for such an assessment. In this pap...

The Museum aan de Stroom (MAS) in Antwerp, Belgium, opened the doors of its long-anticipated exhibition, 100 X Congo, on 3 October 2020, highlighting presence a Congolese art collection that has been owned by city for hundred years (1920-2020). Tackling often uneasy history how these things ended up museums colonial ‘motherland’, this exhibition signals step forwards museology away from mere ae...

Towards a uniform written Dutch: The elimination of dialect features by Gheraert Leeu, printer in Gouda and Antwerp This study discusses the influence printing press on gradual rise standard Dutch basis language used selection incunables, printed one pioneers early printing. Leeu was active (Holland) from 1477 until 1484, but moved 1484 to city (Brabant), where he continued his activity sudden ...

This article offers insight into the role of state in land financialisation through a reading urban hegemony. basis for conjunctural analysis politics planning within context which authoritarian neoliberalism is ascendant across Europe. I explore this case Antwerp as it underwent hegemonic shift nationalist neoliberal party New Flemish Alliance (Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie; N-VA) ended 70 years Soc...