Wander Demuynck
Researcher
Wander Demuynck is a PhD student in regional and urban geography, affiliated with both the Economic Geography research group in Utrecht and the Public Governance Institute of KU Leuven. His research is concerned with disentangling the different dimensions that constitute and drive processes of region-wide urbanisation, also called 鈥榤etropolisation鈥�. He focuses on the characteristics of those places inside the metropolitan region that are situated in between the urban and rural, hence dubbed 鈥榠nterplaces鈥�, and their importance to the functioning of the region as a whole. His doctoral research focuses on the dynamics thereof in Belgium in particular, yet parallels with other European metropolitan regions such as the Dutch Randstad are evident.