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Spatial planning and strategy is a chair in the Department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the Delft University of Technology. We are concerned with knowledge about the formulation, implementation and evaluation of strategic and urban planning tools - visions, strategies, plans and programmes.

Daily archive Mar 18, 2021
New paper - Circling the square: governance of the circular economy transition in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area

New paper – Circling the square: governance of the circular economy transition in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area

New paper, co-authored by Marcin Dąbrowski and Erwin Heurkens (Management in the Built Environment, Bouwkunde, TU Delft) is out in Open Access format, published in European Spatial Research and Policy. The paper uses the case of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area to explore and classify the barriers for managing transitions towards circular economy in that urban...
SPS Seminar on the Union for the Mediterranean Strategic Action Plan for Sustainable Urbanisation, with Roberto Rocco, Carola Hein & Remon Rooij - 30 March 12:15 CET

SPS Seminar on the Union for the Mediterranean Strategic Action Plan for Sustainable Urbanisation, with Roberto Rocco, Carola Hein & Remon Rooij – 30 March 12:15 CET

Title: Union for the Mediterranean: Strategic Action Plan for Sustainable Urbanisation Event Timing: 30 March, 12:15-13:45 CET Speakers: Roberto Rocco, Carola Hein & Remon Rooij This seminar addressed the two-year drafting process of the Union for the Mediterranean Strategic Action Plan for Sustainable Urbanisation and the results of this process. We discussed this in light...
New article on policy tools for planners

New article on policy tools for planners

Many policy tools can be used to develop spatial plans and implement them. Surprisingly there have been few attempts to classify and illustrate the whole range of tools available. Partly based on ideas and examples developed during classes with several cohorts of students at TUDelft, this newly published article outlines the different policy tools that...
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