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Our cities are growing and at the same time becoming more affected by heat stress due to climate change. At her PhD defence, Laura Kleerekoper of the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment presented her research on the application of urban adaptation measures in Dutch cities aiming for a comfortable city climate and optimal water management.

Ever since the banking crisis of 2008 and the subsequent economic crises, our economic system has been limping. In fact, resurrection is taking so long that broadcaster and economics editor with the Guardian, Paul Mason, thinks that the neoliberal ideology itself, the basis of capitalism, is bankrupt.