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...
Suwanna Rongwiriyaphanich presents advancements in her PhD research at the RSP Seminar Series
On March 7, Suwanna Rongwiriyaphanich [S.Rongwiriyaphanich@tudelft.nl], presented advancements of her doctoral research in the RPS Seminar Series. Her work on the importance of understanding cultures in flood management. In her own words: “Why understanding cultures in flood management is necessary? Civilisation has experienced increasing environmental challenges caused by conflicts between the growing population with the increasing...
100 grad students from the University of the West of England at TU Delft
The chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy has received 100 grad students and teachers from the Planning Course at the University of the West of England (UWE) at Bristol. The 100 students and teachers were led by Marcus Grant of the Institute of Sustainability, Health and Environment of the UWE. The Chair of Spatial Planning...
The Governance of Large Urban Projects. Sebastião Bhatt presents at the SPS Seminar series.
Sebastião M.F. Bhatt is a visiting PhD candidate/researcher at the chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy, TU Delft. His institution of origin is the I.C.S.-University of Lisbon and his topic of research is the governance of large-scale urban development projects. On February 21st, Sebastião presented the general lines of his inquiry in our SPS Seminar...
Polycentric Metropolitan Areas in the Process of Metropolisation. By Evert Meijers.
During the 8th SP&S seminar Evert Meijers presented his recent research on polycentric metropolitan areas. He described ‘metropolisation’ as an upward development spiral to more welfare, more sustainability and, inevitably, more happiness. The beckoning perspective of metropolisation did not come as a surprise to the audience. The vocabulary he used to describe a pathway was...
Randstad seminar #04: Local structure and coherence in China today
The 4th Randstad research seminar took place in OTB on the 20th February 2013 with about 30 people in attendance. Prof Frank Pieke, a specialist in the Chinese state and government, was due to speak to us in the context of the INTI-led Shenzhen project but had to cancel at the last moment. In the...
Article published in Urban Design and Planning by Jorge Gil
An article by PhD student Jorge Gil reviewing existing tools for evaluating the sustainability of urban design has been published in the Proceedings of the ICE – Urban Design and Planning. From the abstract: “[…] This article identifies and reviews a selection of sustainable urban development evaluation tools that are applicable to the early stages of urban...
Critical Regionalism/Anti-Regionalism
During the 7th SP&S seminar Liane Lefaivre presented some of the history of the polemics surrounding the issue ‘regionalism’ in the Post World War II world. By reviewing the discourse on regionalism which took place in the US between the 1930s and 60s she demonstrated how planning and design styles rapidly changed under the influence...
Article by postdoctoral fellow Dorina Pojani published in Housing Studies.
An article on informal settlements in Albania by SPS postdoctoral fellow Dorina Pojani was published in Housing Studies in January. Here is the abstract of the paper: “This paper recounts the successful upgrading of Bathore, an informal settlement on government land, located in the outskirts of Tirana, the capital of Albania. Bathore was formed in the early 1990s by...
Azadeh Mashayekhi presents at the University College London (UCL)
PhD candidate Azadeh Mashayekhi presented a paper at University College London. The paper in the ‘Iran urban changes’ conference hosted by the Bartlett Development Planning Unit was a great success. Check out the review of this conference that Azadeh wrote for the Lebanese journal Portal 9. http://www.portal9journal.org/blogdetails.aspx?id=8 Please follow and like us:
