Cities and urban planning
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Museums: Antwerp bets on the MAS
20 May 201185 De Morgen Brussels -
Urbanism: Digging deep for a better life
14 April 20112811 Polityka Warsaw -
A city in Europe: Nostalgia for Bucharest's golden age
13 April 2011167 Dilema Veche Bucharest -
Spain: The illuminati of Europe
4 March 2011PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya -
Population: Poland is shrinking
7 January 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Cities: Gated communities, German style
1 December 20101923 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Urban planning: The metamorphosis of Prague
25 October 2010136 Hospodářské Noviny Prague -
Culture: Cities on the edge stand tall
7 January 2010172 Le Monde Paris -
Netherlands: Rebuilding the forbidden city
6 January 2010De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Spain : Breaking down the bricks racket
2 November 2009PresseuropABC -
Belgium: Antwerp bridge project toppled
19 October 2009PresseuropDe Standaard -
Urban planning: Leipzig in the mix
29 June 2009Trouw Amsterdam
Inaugurated on 17 May, Antwerp’s new metropolitan museum has become a talking point for its architecture. But will it, as its designers have hoped, bring lasting change to the Flemish city? Planner and columnist Filip Canfyn is not convinced. 
From the eastern Baltic to the western straits, Scandinavians are building everything underground: roads, tunnels, and even huge shopping malls. Polish weekly Polityka reports. 
Nicknamed "Little Paris", the Romanian capital is getting a little uglier every day, carved up by building sites that are as mammoth as they are meaningless. But some parts of the town have retained their charm, and it wouldn’t take much to give the city a human face. The architect Teodor Frolu reports. 
Rich man, poor man: as the wealth gap widens in Berlin, the well-heeled are fencing themselves in. They feel safe in their gated communities – if only it weren’t for the neighbours…. The envy. And the protest. 
Environmental activists devote much of their activity to protecting the countryside, but in future preserving cities from aesthetic pollution will become an even greater priority, argues British philosopher Roger Scruton, citing Prague - the "spiritual centre of Europe" - as the perfect example. 
Unloved and unrepentant: Europe's rebellious port cities have always been marked by a strong sense of their own identity. In 2006 six of them grouped together to form "Cities on the edge," a cultural network that celebrates pride in local differences. 
On the immense site of what was once the "Philips forbidden city," work is underway to build a new neighbourhood. The development plan, the largest of its kind in the Netherlands, will bring new life to a town that has always identified itself with the electronics group. 
Like other cities in East Germany, Leipzig has seen many of inhabitants leave since the fall of the Berlin wall. Today, certain abandoned industrial districts have been renovated, and the city is trying to encourage a middle class attracted by low rents to cohabit with disadvantaged populations that have always lived here.