The Glasgow School of Art

Tim Verlaan is an assistant professor in Architectural and Urban History at Amsterdam's Vrije Universiteit. His work focuses on the urban renewal agendas of American and Western European cities – including Glasgow - during the post-war era. After finishing his master degree in European urbanisation at the Centre for Urban History in Leicester and Berlin's Centre for Metropolitan Studies (with distinction), he wrote his PhD dissertation on the politics of redevelopment in Dutch cities during the 1960s and 1970s.