Greet De Block

Urban Studies Institute
Universiteit Antwerpen

  • Scientific Coordinator TOD-IS-RUR

  • Supervisor ESR9

  • Co-supervisor ESR2

 

Greet De Block is Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Antwerp. As hub between the Centre for Urban History and the Urban Studies Institute at the UAntwerpen, her research is highly interdisciplinary, relating urban design with Science and Technology Society studies (STS), urban history, political geography and landscape studies. Writing and teaching focus on technology as driving force of socio-spatial development, with a focus on transport and ecological infrastructure. In addition to historical research on 19th and 20th century infrastructure-urbanisation mechanisms, research mobilises history to provide insight in, and reflection on, the current urban condition and related urban theories and practices.

Personal webpage: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/greet-deblock/