SPS Seminar 20 June: Pieter van der Kooij – Green City Freiburg’s Challenge
Topic: Green City Freiburg’s Challenge? Increase the housing stock by 15% in 15 years, whilst minimalizing the city’s land-use Speaker: Pieter van der Kooij Venue: BG West 270, BK, TU Delft Date and Time: 20 June (Monday) 12:30 – 13:30 Freiburg (South-West Germany, 230.000 inhabitants) is renowned worldwide for its sustainability policies. For over a decade...
Devising solutions to climate change impacts in cities – Adaptation Futures 2016 science-to-practice session
Marcin Dąbrowski and Dominic Stead, in collaboration with Peter van Veelen (acting as a chair/discussant), organised a science-to-practice session at the recent Adaptation Futures 2016 conference in Rotterdam (10-13 May 2016). The conference was huge, with about 1700 participants, and extremely rich in excellent presentations and discussions. The session we organised “Devising Solutions to Adaptation Challenges in Cities” was intended to...
Learning from implementation and evaluation of the EU Cohesion Policy – Lessons for a research-policy dialogue Monday 13 June 2016, Institut d’Etudes Européennes, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Avenue Roosevelt 39, Brussels (Spaak Room) WORKSHOP FOCUS The Cohesion Policy has had a major influence on shaping regional policy of EU member states in terms of governance, practices...
Jane Jacobs 100 Conference: The Outcomes
On 24 and 25 May 2016, we celebrated the 100th birthday of one of the most important urban thinkers of our time, someone who has influenced generations of designers and planners and others concerned with the built environment: the great Jane Jacobs. The two-day conference gathered scholars, practitioners and the general public who could enjoy...
Three teaching jobs at NTNU, Trondheim
The Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art at NTNU is seeking three (Associate) Professors for the Department of Urban Design and Planning: Sustainable Urban Development in the Global South Physical Planning Urban Design The applicants should clearly indicate for which of the three positions they are applying for. All three positions is a 100% fixed...
Conference Cities and Citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean, TU Delft, June 16-17 2016
Conference Cities and Citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean, TU Delft, June 16-17 2016. ENROL HERE. The Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NALACS) and the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the Delft University of Technology, are pleased to announce the joint conference, ‘Cities and Citizenship in Contemporary Latin America...
