Beyond REPAiR – H2020 REPAiR final (online) conference – registration open!
The H2020 REPAiR project, led by Prof. Arjan van Timmeren and involving many of us a the Department of Urbanism and our Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment, is coming to an end soon. On Tuesday, the 13th of October 2020, between 09.00 and 17.15 CET a final online conference for the project will be held....
Remon Rooij: from faculty bachelor program leader to head of education department Urbanism
From 2012-2020 Remon Rooij held the faculty position as bachelor Bouwkundeprogram leader. With 1,400 students BSc BK is one of the largest programs TU Delft offers. 1 Jun,e Remon passed on this responsibility to Urbanism colleague MaartenJan Hoekstra. And Remon took up some new responsibilities for the faculty of Architecturen & the Built Environment and...
Urban Design and Planning book reviews by Remon Rooij
Since 2019, SPS-er Remon Rooij has been member of the editorial board of the ICE Proceedings – Urban Design and Planning. In 2019 he co-authored with Roberto Rocco and Gregory Bracken a briefing article on ‘Professor Vincent Nadin’s decade of spatial planning and strategy at TU Delft’. In 2020 he reviewed two interesting books in...
New publication Remon Rooij and Machiel van Dorst: A pattern language approach to learning in planning
A pattern language approach to learning in planning A new paper by Remon Rooij and Machiel van Dorst published in Urban Planning. SPS-er Remon Rooij wrote a commentary article in the Urban Planning journal together with Urbanism colleague Machiel van Dorst on how (former) urbanism students use and perceive the value of a pattern language...
(Online) SPS Seminar with Gregory Bracken, Paul Rabé & Lei Qu: Future of Asian Cities – 18 June 12:30 CET
Speakers: Gregory Bracken, Paul Rabe and Lei QuTopic: Future Challenges of Cities in Asia The seminar will focus on the new book edited by the speakers: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463728812/future-challenges-of-cities-in-asia Future Challenges of Cities in Asia, edited by G. Bracken, P. Rabé, R. Parthasarathy, N. Sami, B. Zhang The ten essays in Future Challenges...
(Online) SPS Seminar with Kasia Piskorek – Public Engagement as a trust-building device – 16 June, 12:30 CET
More details to follow… HOW TO TAKE PART? We welcome all participants interested in the topic. Link and password to the Zoom meeting will be provided later to registered participants by email. You can register here: https://forms.gle/8XVcq4YVLDQ98YT56 It goes without saying that participation is free of charge. Please follow and like us:
(Online) SPS seminar with David Evers (PBL) – Sustainable Urbanisation and Land-use (ESPON SUPER), video and slides available
SPS Seminar online via zoom 2 June 12:30-13:30 Speaker: David Evers (PBL) Slides from the lecture are available here Topic: Sustainable urbanization and land use In the past year, the ESPON SUPER project – Sustainability of Urbanization and land use Practices in European Regions – has amassed a considerable body of knowledge on physical developments...
(Online) EPRC-SPS Seminar: Lewis Dijkstra (European Commission) – Everything you heard about global urbanisation is wrong – Video available
Slides from the lecture are available here. (Online) EPRC – SPS Seminars on contemporary challenges in European spatial development 28 May 2020 – 12:30-14:00 (CET) Lewis Dijkstra : “Everything you heard about global urbanisation is wrong” Abstract: The UN Statistical Commission endorsed the first ever global definition of cities, towns and rural areas earlier this...
Video: (Online) SPS Seminar with Caroline Newton on Urban Pathology of Neo-Liberal Control
SPS seminar with Caroline Newton (TUD) on Urban Pathology of Neo-Liberal Control was organised via Zoom. The recording from the seminar is available here: Title: Pathologies of neo-liberal urban planning. Spatial Justice as a Design Principle to Recover the Soul of the City Abstract During the last two weeks of March the number of calls...
WaVE Interreg Europe project – WAter-linked heritage Valorization by developing an Ecosystemic approach
SPS team members (Kasia Piskorek, Ana Maria Fernandez Maldonado, Marcin Dąbrowski, with Wout van den Toorn Vrijthof and Vincent Nadin as external advisors) are involved in Interreg project WaVE – WAter-linked heritage Valorization by developing an Ecosystemic approach. The project runs from 1 Aug 2019 to 31 Jul 2022. WaVE brings together 7 partners who have in...
TU Delft is now ranked number 1 in the world in urban planning
We are pleased to announce that TU Delft has moved to first place from second for ‘Urban Planning’ in the University Rankings of Academic Performance. See https://www.urapcenter.org/Rankings/2018-2019/Urban%20Planning This is not only the performance of SPS section in Urbanism, but of other groups across TU Delft working on issues related to urban planning. Together we create...
Our publications in 2018.
When it comes to publishing, 2018 has been a very fruitful year for the Spatial Planning and Strategy section of the Urbanism department. We are very happy to present here a selection of our publications in journals and books from the past year. General audience publications: Bracken, G. & Bracken, A. (2018) Cork Strolls: Exploring...
