AESOP Round Table on Faludi’s “The Poverty of New Territorialism”
At the Annual Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning AESOP (Venice, 9 – 13 July, 2019), Giancarlo Cotella (Politecnico di Torino) convened a Round Table on my book. I briefly defined (state) territorialism, making the case for and against, including the part it has in the EU crisis. With Jan Zielonka (2014)...
BLOXHUB SUMMER SCHOOL ON URBAN RESILIENCE : 12-19 SEPT 2019 In COPENHAGEN.
BLOXHUB SUMMER SCHOOL ON URBAN RESILIENCE : 12-19 SEPT 2019 In COPENHAGEN. The summer school will bring together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, during an intensive eight days course from 12-19 September 2019 in Copenhagen. The summer school aims at providing multi-disciplinary knowledge and perspectives on the different global and local challenges in cities of the...
‘The Poverty of Territorialism’, a book by Andreas Faludi, in the News
The first, long and thoughtful – and gratefully (very) positive – review has been published. See: Zaucha, J. (2018) Book Review: The Poverty of Territorialism. A Neo-Medieval View of Europe and European Planning. Europa XXI, vol. 35, 2018, pp. 127-131. Reading it, I was gasping. Jacek Zaucha succeeded in summing it all, including the dilemmas...
‘Territorialism in the Balkans”, by Andreas Faludi
Territorialism in the Balkans Text by Andreas Faludi, Emeritus Professor, SPS In ‘The Poverty of Territorialism’ (Faludi 2018) I show the territorial nation-state to be a modernist construct imposed on a more fluid and complex reality. Although critical of it, one must give the nation-state its due, also in the Balkans. Thanks to the role...
Professor James Holston (UC Berkeley): Democratic innovation using new digital platform technologies
Professor James Holston from UC Berkeley will speak about digital democracy and show examples of innovative digital participatory tools. JAMES HOLSTON is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also founding director of the Social Apps Lab at CITRIS and former co-director of Global Metropolitan Studies. He is a political...
2017 TU Delft UTC Urban Thinkers Campus discussed at UN-Habitat General Assembly in Nairobi.
Between 7 and 9 June 2017, the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the TU Delft organised an UN-Habitat sponsored Urban Thinkers’ Campus (UTC ) on Higher Education for the New Urban Agenda. The title of our UTC was “EDUCATION FOR THE CITY WE NEED: HOW DO WE TEACH THE NEW URBAN AGENDA?”. The main...
Europe Day in Tirana, Albania: Postscript by Andreas Faludi
Europe Day in Tirana, Albania: Postscript There is Western Balkans accession wariness with close to a quarter of the population no longer believing to see it happen (Timsit 2019). They might just as well welcome yet more Chinese, Russian, Turkish and Saudi investment, even with strings attached. Outside international hotels, it seems you can...
It Could happen TU 2: James Holston on Insurgent Citizenship, Democracy and the City, 13 JUNE 2019, BK
With Professor James Holston, University of California Berkeley, JUNE 13, 2019, 12:30-13:45 Berlagezaal 1, BK Organization: Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy& DDfV Delft Design for Values http://designforvalues.tudelft.nl Abstract: In the first event promoted by SPS and DDfV (Delft Design for Values), we discussed the rise of far-right politics, Patricia Schor from Amsterdam University College talked about...
Andreas Faludi’s talk at Polis University and Co-Plan, celebrating Europe Day.
Polis University and Co-PLAN Institute are an international university annex consultancy at Tirana in Albania. Having heard me speak about ?The Poverty of Territorialism? in Vienna, Rudina Toto invited me to speak there on Europe Day (see the graphics). Yes: on 9 May we commemorate the Schuman Declaration of 1950 vintage leading to the European...
Keynote speech by Andreas Faludi at the 10th anniversary of CESCI
A born Hungarian, I left the country shortly before my 7th birthday not long before the Iron Curtain came down. No longer a Hungarian-speaker, until recently, I have not had many contacts, professional or otherwise with Hungary. Only over the last years, I have been to events of the Central European Service for Cross-border Initiatives...
Alumna Putri Santoso tells about the joy of working on a project in Jakarta
Putrikinasih Santoso, from Indonesia has worked on a project similar to the one she developed in her graduation project for TU Delft, guided by Roberto Rocco and Luiza Calabrese. Her graduation thesis is available for download HERE. MRT Jakarta: Reshaping Mobility Landscape for Better Livability Text by: Putrikinasih R. Santoso (Senior Urban Designer in PDW,...
ECTP Biennial, Plymouth, UK, 11-13 SEPT
Call for the ECTP’s biennial, Plymouth, England, 11 – 13th September 2019. https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/european-council-of-town-planners-biennial-conference-2019 The breadth of the contributions might cover planning for coastal cities, marine spatial planning, climate change, urban regeneration, peripheral regions, border areas. In addition, the edge might refer to social and economic issues, including housing and poverty. I suggest that Brexit will...
