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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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The nightclub is dead, long live the night

As traditional clubs struggle and festivals lose ground, urban nightlife is reinventing itself in fleeting spaces, hybrid forms, and intimate…

Sep 4, 2025 • Jeroen Beekmans, Joop de Boer, and Pop-Up City

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August 2025

Hacking the temporary city

As everything moves faster, pop-up becomes hyper pop-up. With it comes a new visual urban language.

Aug 1, 2025 • Jeroen Beekmans, Joop de Boer, and Pop-Up City