Upcoming lecture by Michael Neuman: The plan matters.
On Monday, the 23rd of September at 12.30, Michael Neuman will give a lecture with the title ‘Images of place in urban and regional planning’ at the Hugo Priemuszaal, OTB. His position is that the plan matters because the images of place that are contained in plans not only guide the planning process and the...
Urbanism Week 2013! 8 till 11 October
Urbanism Week 2013 Symposium, Workshops, Lunch lectures Location: University of Technology Delft, the Netherlands, Faculty of Architecture Date: 7 – 11 October 2013 In October POLIS, the student association of the University of Technology in Delft, is organizing the third edition of the Urbanism Week. This yearly event is an attempt to strengthen the...
ESPON North Sea STAR Workshop: Energy and the North Sea Region.
The ESPON North Sea STAR project is working with the Interreg IVb North Sea Region Secretariat to evaluate energy themed projects within the 2007-2013 programme and provide recommendations as to how energy issues might be addressed in the forthcoming Interreg Vb programme. As part of our activities we are inviting stakeholders from the North Sea...
2013 / Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado / BLOG Planning Latin America / Developing countries / Development / Development studies / Latin America / Roberto Rocco
Contribute to the BLOG ‘Planning Latin America’
The Development Studies Group of the Department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (TU Delft), together with colleagues from the Universities of Toronto and Aalborg, has launched a new BLOG to circulate information and promote debate on themes related to spatial planning in Latin America. With the aim of expanding...
Record TU Delft participation at AESOP Dublin 2013
Several TU Delft researchers took part in the joint AESOP/ACSP Conference (the Association of European Schools of Planning and The American Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning) that took place in Dublin between July 15 and 19. The conference was hosted by University College Dublin (UCD). The theme of the conference was Planning for Resilient Cities and...
New Urban Languages: Re-Imaging the City after the knowledge-based turn
Roberto Rocco has presented a keynote speech at the International Conference “New Urban languages: Re-Imaging the City after the Knowledge-Based Turn” at the Politecnico di Milano. Rossella Salerno and Daniele Villa of the School of Architecture and Society of the Politecnico have organized a 3-day conference to discuss issues related to knowledge and communication and...
‘Our infatuation with the object of planning: If only we could read off and follow the rules’
We would like to make you attend to the recent issue of Planning Theory & Practice (Vol. 14, No. 2) as it touches our interests. We quote John Forester who has written the editorial note, just to make you curious: ‘Dialogue alone can give us just talk. Expertise alone can give us just advice. Negotiation...
Lecture: Contribution to the series ‘Public Transport as Urban Generator’
On occasion of the University Colloquium ‘Public Transport as Urban Generator’ and on invitation of the Technical University of Munich and the Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG, Munich Transport Corporation), Verena Balz gave a lecture entiteled ‘From Concepts to Projects: Stedenbaan, The Netherlands’ in Munich. In her lecture she reflected on a design approach to the integration...
Meeting our Taiwanese Alumni in Taipei!
Keats Lin, one of our Taiwanese Doctoral candidates, has organized a meeting between Vincent Nadin and Roberto Rocco and four Taiwanese SPS Alumni. These are Meiyen Chen, Shih-Hao Tseng (Tony), Shing Rong Wu (Sylvain) and YiChung Huang. The meeting happened in a restaurant operating in a historic Japanese house in Taipei. (Photos are available HERE)....
2013 / Alumni / Asia / Education / Graduation project / Partnerships / Profile / Taiwan / Taiwan partnership
Urbanism Alumni exhibit their work at the iCities conference at the National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Four Urbanism alumni have exhibited their graduation work at the iCities 2013 conference at the National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. iCities is the international Forum on Innovative Planning. The theme of this year’s conference was “Operating Sustainability: Teaching Sustainability on Planning Education”. CLICK HERE for the conference website. Alumni were selected based on their excellent...
2013 / Asia / Conferences / Developing countries / Partnerships / Roberto Rocco / Taiwan / Taiwan partnership / Vincent Nadin
SPS participates in the iCities conference at the National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Pursuing our partnership with the National Cheng-Kung University of Tainan (Taiwan), Vincent Nadin and Roberto Rocco have made keynote speeches at the iCities conference in Taiwan in May 2013. iCities is the international Forum on Innovative Planning. The theme of this year’s conference was “Operating Sustainability: Teaching Sustainability on Planning Education”. CLICK HERE for the conference...
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...
