SPS Seminar: Secondary yet metropolitan?, with Rodrigo Cardoso (OTB), TUESDAY April 18, 12:30 room BGWEST290
We cordially invite all to attend the next SPS SEMINAR: Secondary yet metropolitan? The advantages and challenges of metropolitan integration for second-tier cities with Rodrigo Cardoso (OTB), TUESDAY April 18, 12:30 room BGWEST290 Faculty of Architecture, Julianalaan 134 Why metropolitan integration is both more important and more difficult for second-tier cities Do European second-tier...
Jane Jacobs is still here! Closing of the JJ Centennial Year
On May 16 2017, we will celebrate Jane Jacobs’ contribution to our understanding of modern cities once more. Roberta Brandes Gratz, the celebrated author of “We are Still Here, Ya Bastards” and Susanne Komossa, Professor at Faculty of Architecture and author of the book “The Dutch Urban Block and the Public Realm: Models, Rules, Ideals”...
International Students Workshop “World on the Move”: 4-10 May TU Vienna
Our world is on the move We have to face an enormous urbanisation with already a majority of people living in dense urban settlements, and prognosis says that numbers may rise up to 70% of the world’s population living in urban areas by 2050. This growth is fuelled by diverse kinds of migration. The international student project –in...
Lecture: Mapping as a research tool
Ceren Sezer is invited to give a lecture in Leiden University about mapping as a research tool in 14th April 2017. This lecture will be a part of a series of expert lectures organised for the PhD candidates within the course ‘Mixed Methods in the Social Sciences and the Humanities’. The lecture presents mapping as a creative visual tool, which...
Seminar ‘Participatory City Making: How to Innovate Urban Public Services’ by Emma Puerari: 30 March 12h30
An SPS Seminar by Emma Puerari Thursday March 30, 12h30-13h30 THINK ROOM at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (BK), Julianalaan 134, Delft. Abstract The desire of urban community groups to take greater control and responsibility for their own lives and neighbourhoods is a long-term fundamental trend. Citizens are increasingly teaming up in...
SAVE THE DATE! TU Delft Urban Thinkers’ Campus: 7-9 JUNE 2017
SAVE THE DATE: TU Delft Urban Thinkers’ Campus: 7-9 JUNE 2017 UNIVERSITIES FOR THE NEW URBAN AGENDA Teaching the New Urban Agenda: Universities Alliance for Sustainable and Fair Urban Development Between 7 and 9 June 2017, the Department of Urbanism of the TU Delft will organise an Urban Thinkers’ Campus (UTC ) on Education for the New...
Post-Conflict Planning – Continue the discussion!: 27 March 12h30 Faculty of Architecture ROOM C
Post-Conflict Planning – Continue the discussion! Public Event · Hosted by Heshmat Najim and Ivan Thung 27 March at 12:30 Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment TU Delft Julianalaan 134, 2628 BL Delft ROOM C Agenda: 12:30 – 12:45 Presentation proceedings International Symposium Planning and Post-Conflict Cities 12:45 – 13:15 Heshmat Najim Strategies for planning...
Two TU Delft students among finalists for NALACS Best Thesis Award
Two students from Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment TU Delft are runners up for the NALACS Best Thesis Award. Linda de Geus and Laura García are among the finalists who wrote thesis on topics in Latin American and the Caribbean. The award ceremony is on March 31 at Rialto Cinema in Amsterdam! NALACS is the Netherlands Association of Latin...
SPS Seminar: Digital Community Planning: The Open Source Way to the Top of Arnstein’s Ladder
We cordially invite all to attend the SPS Seminar Digital Community Planning: The Open Source Way to the Top of Arnstein’s Ladder by Enzo Falco 16 MARCH 12h30 , room BGWEST290 Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Julianalaan 134, 2628BL, Delft, The Netherlands. Abstract: Citizen participation in planning is still in the hands...
CALL FOR IDEAS: TU Delft Urban Thinkers’ Campus JUNE 2017
CALL FOR IDEAS: TUDelft UTC On 7, 8 and 9 June 2017, the Department of Urbanism of the TU Delft will organise an URBAN THINKERS CAMPUS. UTCs are sponsored by the World Urban Campaign and UN-HABITAT They are supposed to gather stakeholders in order to discuss specific urban development issues and agree on policy...
Seminar and Book Presentation: “Starchitecture: Scenes, Actors and Spectacles in Contemporary Cities” by Davide Ponzini
Dear colleagues You are kindly invited to attend a seminar and book presentation jointly organized by OTB and SPS. Title: Starchitecture: Scenes, Actors and Spectacles in Contemporary Cities When: Wednesday 22 March, 12.00-13.30 Where: BK, Room R, Julianalaan 134 Who: Davide Ponzini, Politecnico di Milano Davide Ponzini is Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano. His new book...
Vincent Nadin new chairperson of Urbanism
As of March 1 2017, Prof. Vincent Nadin is the new chairman of the Department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. Vincent has the experience and the position to represent the interests of our department in the world. Staff and students say farewell to Machiel van Dorst, who chaired the Department...
