Gender and the city
April 2013 Lidewij Tummers performed a consultancy on Gender and urban development for the Bordeaux region CUB. The programme consisted of two parts: One an interactive workshop with the staff of different departments involved in planning, such as mobility, infrastructure, housing and urban design. As Bordeaux already has strong diversity and social participation policies, this...
Vincent Nadin presents at the SPS Seminar Series: The weakness of technocratic and imperative forms of planning for water management in Europe
Vincent Nadin has presented a lecture titled “The weakness of technocratic and imperative forms of planning for water management in Europe. Are there alternatives?” In his lecture, Vincent has discussed the approach to implementing the EU Water Framework Directive, concentrated on technocratic river basin management plans and imperative land use zoning plans. The results have...
Integrating sustainability and spatial planning, by Roberto Rocco
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Globalisation students (and many others) try the “Silent Classroom” concept, with a lecture by Stephen Read in BK’s Maquette Hall
In April 2013, the students of the Free Choice (MSc2 elective) tried out the new “silent classroom” concept. The silent classroom uses headphones and a closed-circuit sound transmission system to allow participants to listen to a lecture, while in very noisy places. The lecturer talks on a small microphone and listeners are able to follow...
Housing in Ecuador: Meet the Developers on TUE May 7 at 10h30 in room 1WEST060
On Tuesday MAY 7 from 10:30 to 11:30 (room 1WEST 060), we will receive ECO&ARQUITECTOS. They are an Ecuadorian group of developers/architects working in Guayaquil, Ecuador. As commercial developers, they are in charge of developing a neighborhood with 12.600 low cost housing units for the Ministry of Housing of that country. We would like to invite...
Akkelies van Nes & Roberto Rocco guest speakers at Conference on Urban Development in Prague
Akkelies van Nes and Roberto Rocco were both invited speakers at the Conference on Urban Development promoted by the Mayor of Prague on 11 April 2013. The conference was primarily intended to professionals (spatial planners, developers, designers, etc) from the Czech Republic and neighbouring Central European States (Slovakia, Austria and Hungary). van Nes presented advancements...
Join our INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MAILING LIST
The chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy promotes activities concerning International Urban Development. This concerns mostly issues of urban development in the Global South. This includes (but is not limited to) urban management, housing, informal urbanisation, governance, resources management, territorial management, urban emergencies, among other topics concerning the built environment in the Global South. Because we often have...
Professor Mariana Fix of the University of Campinas presents at the TU Delft
Mariana Fix, Professor of Economics at the University of Campinas (Brazil) talked about “Global finance and the right to the city struggle in Brazil”. Mariana is an architect and urbanist by the University of Sao Paulo, with a post-graduate Masters in Sociology and a PhD in Economics. She follows urban social movements in Brazil closely...
The Dream Mentor Team: who would you like to supervise your graduation project?
In their graduation year, students at the Department of Urbanism of the TU Delft are supervised by two “mentors”. These mentors or supervisors have a strong impact on how students orient their work. TU Delft has an excellent team of supervisors: designers, planners, economists, psychologists, computer modeling specialists, landscape designers. The pool is very varied,...
Alexander Wandl presents at the SPS Seminar
Alexandre Wandl has presented at the customary lunch seminar promoted by the Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy. Wandl has spoken about the research and recently published book “Amsterwam”, which he wrote in collaboration with Frank van den Hoeven. The book is available at http://press.tudelft.nl/index.php/press/catalog/book/17 Amsterwarm contributes through the development of an area typology to...
Students from the Graduation Studios in Urbanism at TU Delft present at Methodology Course
Bart van Leeuwen (Urban Regeneration); Emma Grün (Complex Cities); Erjen Prins (Vertical Cities Asia); and Evelien van Winsen (Design and Politics) presented the state of their on-going graduation work to MSc2 students in the Methodology course. The idea was to introduce first year students to the work of the Graduation Studios through the work of their students....
Elise van Dooren gives a workshop on design processes at the Methodology Course
In March, Elise van Dooren from the Chair of Architectural Engineering of the TU Delft gave a workshop at the MSc2 Methodology course (AR2U090). This workshop was organised by Egbert Stolk and van Dooren. The workshop challenged students to reflect on their design process and presented interesting findings in design processes for architects. Here are...
