Nanke Verloo

Nanke Verloo is Assistant Professor in Urban Planning. Her work specializes in processes of urban governance, conflict, citizen participation, and in- and exclusion of marginalized groups. She is trained in Anthropology and Public Policy. Her research and teaching take an interdisciplinary and ethnographic approach to ‘planning for inclusive cities’. She is interested in participatory planning and the interaction between top-down and bottom-up efforts to democratize urban development processes. She specifically looks at the role of ‘informal politics’ as a crucial aspect of participation.