Tim Verlaan (klik hier voor Nederlands) is assistant professor in Urban History, working on the sociopolitical and spatial history of European cities during the 1960-2000 period. After finishing his master degree in European Urbanisation at the University of Leicester and Berlin's Technische Universität in 2012, he wrote a doctoral thesis on the politics of urban redevelopment in Dutch cities. He worked as an assistant professor in Architectural History at Amsterdam's Vrije Universiteit, and was invited as a visiting scholar to New York's Fordham University, the Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung in Berlin, the Centre for Urban History in Leicester and the University of Glasgow.

He has published on the history of urban renewal, property development, gentrification, migration, urban modernity, cars, and people living alone. In early 2026, Amsterdam voor sjiek en sjofel (with Petra Brouwer) was published, a monograph about how the city reinvented itself in the 1970s and 1980s.

Besides research and teaching at graduate and postgraduate levels, Tim is coordinator of the MA programme in Urban and Architectural History, associate editor of Urban History, and founding member of Failed Architecture. He was member of the supervisory board at the Amsterdam Museum and member of the advisory board at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture.