Pop-Up City

The 5 gentrifications you haven’t heard of

From satellite cities to pistachification.

Oct 23 • Jeroen Beekmans, Joop de Boer, and Pop-Up City

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September 2026

The pop-up comeback

Plus: Joop hosted a podcast, Jeroen wants to move to Eindhoven, and Tokyo’s rising ambient book rave scene.

Sep 29 • Jeroen Beekmans, Joop de Boer, and Pop-Up City

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Pop-Up City Radar is live

1,100+ urban innovations from 400 cities, 18 years in the making. Plus: new space in the heart of North Amsterdam, calm cities and hybrid coffee space.

Sep 11 • Jeroen Beekmans, Joop de Boer, and Pop-Up City

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April 2026

Tear down the fences

Why the sports complex is a fossil from the industrial age, and how geometric hacking is turning our cities into the stadiums of the future.

Apr 24 • Jeroen Beekmans, Joop de Boer, and Pop-Up City

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Our new (secret) event space is open

Plus: America's weirdest pizza chain, a Korean bar with no counter, and a German train to nowhere

Apr 14 • Pop-Up City

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March 2026

The great rackification

When data centres become the new offices, we need a new kind of city.

Mar 13 • Jeroen Beekmans, Joop de Boer, and Pop-Up City

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January 2026

We opened a plant shop

Plus: vertical flower meadows, a hunt for 21ˢᵗ-century aesthetics, and selling real estate like a video game.

Jan 22 • Jeroen Beekmans, Joop de Boer, and Pop-Up City

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Vintagefication is taking over the streetscape

Resale and vintage are claiming an ever-growing share of the shopping street. Could this shift offer the long-awaited blueprints for building more…

Jan 14 • Jeroen Beekmans, Joop de Boer, and Pop-Up City

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December 2025

Why the micro-mall is the answer to empty high streets

With the launch of PoPPo, Amsterdam becomes the testing ground for a hyper-local department store.

Dec 11, 2025 • Jeroen Beekmans, Joop de Boer, and Pop-Up City

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October 2025

(H)Activate the City is here

A hands-on guide for youth workers, placemakers, and urban doers building change from the street up.

Oct 29, 2025 • Jeroen Beekmans, Joop de Boer, and Pop-Up City

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The rise of the beauty district

From deadlifts to facelifts: how the beauty economy takes over the neighbourhood.

Oct 24, 2025 • Jeroen Beekmans, Joop de Boer, and Pop-Up City

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September 2025

Inside Amsterdam's secret sticker scene

Plus: urban hacking for youngsters, the hidden value of public spaces, and help us build a pop-up department store.

Sep 25, 2025 • Jeroen Beekmans, Joop de Boer, and Pop-Up City

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