2013 / BLOG Planning Latin America / Developing countries / Development / Development studies / Roberto Rocco
Paper on informal urbanisation published in Third World Quarterly
A paper written by alumnus Jan Ballegoijen (presently at Crimson Rotterdam) and Roberto Rocco on issues of informal urbanisation has been published by Third World Quarterly. Abstract: This paper discusses how urban informality in the developing world has been understood in the West, and how it has been incorporated in the discourse of urban architects...
2013 / China / Europe / planning / Research / SCUT urban systems and environment / sps / TU Delft / Urbanism / Vincent Nadin
China-EU Forum on Urbanisation
China needs ‘a new type of urbanisation’ and ‘deeper exchange with Europe on urban planning, urban design and sustainable transport’ said Premier Li Keqiang at the China-EU Forum on Urbanisation held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in November. Vincent Nadin, Lily Li and others attended the Forum on behalf of the...
CALL FOR PAPERS: SCUPAD 2014: Salzburg 16-18 May 2014
The following call for papers could be of interest to you. Please forward the message further within your networks. With best regards on behalf of the SCUPAD organizing committee, – CALL FOR PAPERS – 46th Annual SCUPAD Congress May 16th -18th, 2014 in Salzburg, Austria No Time to Waste: Planning to Reduce,...
Yu Ye gives a talk at the SPS Seminar Series
Yu Ye, SPS alumnus and now PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong, gives a talk at the SPS Seminar Series Yu Ye talked about “Form syntax’ as an approach to understand urban form quantitatively and promote high degree of urbanity in urban design ”, on issues being studied in his doctoral research. You will find...
Marcin Dąbrowski, post-doc at SPS, publishes two short articles
Marcin Dąbrowski, who has just started his post-doctoral fellowship within the Spatial Planning and Strategy chair, publishes two short articles on EU cohesion policy. The first one will be out in the upcoming issue of the Regions magazine. In this article Marcin presents his recent research on the Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas (JESSICA),...
South China Normal University 80th Birthday Presentation
Vincent Nadin has made a keynote presentation to staff and students of South China Normal University, Guangzhou as part of its 80th birthday celebrations. I outlined how planning practices and policies in Europe have responded to changing demands over the last twenty years, at the invitation of Professor Wu Zhigang of the Center for Urban &...
