2,437 search results for “urban studies” in the Public website
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Peter Berrill
Science
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Roos Stolker
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Catrin Böcher
Science
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Sowmya Marriyapillai Ravisandiran
Science
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Matt Young
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Michiel Hooykaas
Science
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The social history of labor in the Iranian oil industry (1908-1954)
This PhD research sets out to unravel and explain the socio-structural and cultural impacts of oil-industrialization on the local Bakhtiari community in general and the industrial laborers it provided in specific.
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Early Christian Encounters with Town and Countryside
Early Christian Encounters with Town and Countryside - Essays on the Urban and Rural Worlds of Early Christianity.
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Crime and Migration in an Age of Transformation
The nineteenth century truly was an age of transformation. Throughout Europe processes of industrialization and urbanization, nationalization and centralization, changed the structures of society. It was an age in which the number of people living in urban communities grew substantially.
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Extra challenge
Are you ready to take on an extra challenge during your Leiden Bachelor programme? With options like Honours College, The Humanities Lab and the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) you can add extra depth, intensity and ECTS – even a dual degree – to your study.
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Education
CML’s education programme aims at training (under)graduate and graduate students for integrated and multidisciplinary sustainability research and for better decision making in managing the world’s natural resources, environmental quality and biodiversity.
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Advisory groups D&I
The Faculty of Humanities has two advisory groups for Diversty & Inclusion: one for staff members and one for students.
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Water Management in Ancient Mexico: Archaeological Heritage and Sustainable Development
This project investigates ancient water management of streams, springs and runoffs on the archaeological site of Monte Albán, Mexico, as a means to contribute with different stakeholders in the development of sustainable solutions to water problems today such as floods and scarcity.
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More housing in cities is possible without sacrificing green spaces
Building more in urban areas is, in most places in the Netherlands, the smartest way to tackle the housing crisis. This is evident from research conducted by Janneke van Oorschot, published in a partner journal of Nature. Remarkably, this does not have to come at the expense of green spaces in cities.…
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Changes in the cultural landscape and their impacts on heritage management
A study of Dutch Fort at Galle, Sri Lanka
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Introducing: Paul Kloeg
Paul Kloeg is a PhD student in the ERC granted research project 'An Empire of 2000 Cities: urban networks and economic integration in the Roman empire', directed by Luuk De Ligt and John Bintliff (Archaeology).
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Islam in North Africa
As Lila Abu Lughod pointed out in 1989, North Africa has been one of the geographical ‘zones of prestige’ for the development of canonical approaches and crucial theoretical debates regarding the comparative study of Islam.
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Bianca Angelien Claveria
Faculty of Humanities
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Jian Wang
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Case studies in archaeological predictive modelling
ASLU 14
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Leiden Slavery Studies Association
The Leiden Slavery Studies Association (LSSA) is dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of slavery and post-slavery in any period and any geographical region.
- Green roofs and Buildings
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Fransiskus Widiyarso
Faculty of Humanities
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Rishika Dhumal
Faculteit Archeologie
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Alies Jansen
Faculty of Humanities
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Surya Suryadi
Faculty of Humanities
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Media studies: Book and Digital Media Studies
Are you thinking about studying Book and Digital Media Studies? Learn more and watch the introduction video.
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Media studies: Film and Photographic Studies
Are you thinking about studying Film and Photographic Studies? Learn more and watch the introduction video.
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Mapping Historical Leiden: A Dynamic and Digital Atlas (Phase 1 & 2)
The map application includes information from old and new buildings archaeological projects. This makes it possible to investigate whether water facilities (wells, cisterns) and waste facilities (cesspits, sewers) were the privilege of Leiden’s wealthy elite in the late 16th and 17th centuries or whether…
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The Sociolinguistics of Rhotacization in the Beijing Speech Community
On 21 September 2022 H. Hu successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Home Ecologics – Dutch multispecies homes
How do humans, non-humans and their interactions and relations shape the home as ecological and social space?
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Markets and ports in perspective
A comparative study on the spatial origin and development of towns in the northern Netherlands, 700-1400.
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Turkish Studies
Welcome to the website of Turkish Studies at Leiden University. On this website you will find information on the work and the activities of the people studying the Ottoman Empire and Turkey at Leiden University.
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Inter-Section Volume 2
It is with great pleasure that we present to you the second volume of Inter-Section, published in 2016.
- Green Infrastructure, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
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Study associations
The Faculty of Science has multiple study associations, which organise both study-related and social activities for students.
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Missing the Mark? A Typology of Lethal and Non-Lethal Firearm Violence in the Netherlands
This article describes the phenomenon of firearms violence and the importance of including non-lethal firearms violence in understanding this phenomenon.
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Yuanyuan Mao
Science
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Roy Remme
Science
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Md Faysal Tareq
Science
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Roos van Oosten
Faculteit Archeologie
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Completed Studies
Below you can read about studies we have carried out in the past.
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Shiʿi studies
While many European universities, Leiden included, have a proud tradition of research into Islamic studies, a topical and thematic focus on Shiʿi Islam in all its dispensation remains a desideratum.
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Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 23
Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 23, 2007
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Study abroad
Leiden University encourages its students to gain an international experience during their studies in Leiden or The Hague.
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Arabic Studies
Dating back more than 400 years, Leiden University has the oldest continuous chair of Arabic outside the Arabic-speaking world. Today the MENA region is studied at Leiden from before the coming of Islam up to today from a wide array of disciplines. And Arabic is studied within the diverse linguistic,…