CfP: RC21 Leeds : September 11-13, 2017 Rethinking Urban Global Justice: An international academic conference for critical urban studies
CALL FOR PAPERS In anticipation of the upcoming RC21 Conference, titled “Rethinking Urban Global Justice” to take place from 11-13 September in Leeds, UK, we are seeking paper proposals for a session on ‘The Political Meaning of Informal Urbanisation; building democracy while building the city’. We welcome contributions from authors working on connected topics, and who...
SPS Seminar 23 FEB: Lidewij Tummers ‘Co-housing and the Circular City’
In Europe, inhabitants increasingly take initiatives collectively to create and manage housing projects. Under the umbrella term “Collaborative housing” (co-housing) these experiences are spreading as a socially innovative practice, also generating alternative forms of knowledge on low-impact technology and operating recycling systems. The co-housing typology of clustered, self-managed dwellings offers a unique intermediate scale, between...
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European Master of Urbanism (Urban Regional Networks) Final Presentation
Today, the final presentation of the European Master of Urbanism (EMU). The EMU is a flagship post-Master programme given in a consortium of four leading European universities: TU Delft (NL), KU Leuven (BE), Politecnica de Catalunya (ES) and IUAV Venice (IT). This is a special programme because students who already have a Master title go...
Ivan Thung: Challenges for Implementing the New Urban Agenda: THU 2 FEB 12h30
Thursday 2 February at 12:30–13:30 Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment TU Delft Julianalaan 134, 2628 BL Delft ROOM 01WEST620 Ivan Thung, former consultant at UN-Habitat HQ in Nairobi will describe how the agency is addressing some of the enduring urban challenges in the global south> he will give an account of the UN-Habitat’s Urban Planning...
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2017 Summer School ‘Planning and Design with Water’ applications now OPEN
Hey folks! Applications for the 2017 Summer School “Planning and Design with Water” are now OPEN! This Summer School introduces students from all over the world to the Dutch tradition of urban and regional planning and design with water for sustainable healthy and far cities. The school is very dynamic, with practical workshops, lectures, site...
SPS in Jane Jacobs Walk with IHS “Urban Strategies and Planning” course
On Monday 16, SPS took part in a Jane Jacobs Walk with students from the course Urban Strategies and Planning of the IHS Erasmus Rotterdam. This course is led by Alexander Jachnow and taught by Alexandra Tsatsou and Magdalena Derdzikowska, among others. There were around 25 students of many nationalities, but mainly from the Global South. Young people from...
SCUPAD Congress: Displacement: Our world in motion, Deadline for abstracts extended!
The deadline for the call for papers and contributions from practice for the 52nd SCUPAD congress has been extended. If you are looking into migration, refugees, high-skilled migration, brain drains and other forms of human displacement and their impact on cities and regions, join us for this exciting SCUPAD congress. The deadline for submission of...
Online Course ‘Rethink the City: New approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges’
Course ‘Rethink the City: New approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges’ is online! How do you plan future cities? Explore alternative theories and innovative solutions for urban challenges in the global south. Enrol HERE. The Chair of Spatial Planning coordinated one of the main sections of this course, namely, the Spatial Justice component. About this...
Meet NALACS, the Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Meet NALACS, the Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies *visit our webpage HERE. About NALACS, the Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, is an association for everyone in the Netherlands who is engaged with Latin America and/or the Caribbean. Its members include researchers, PhD candidates and students, as well as journalists, NGO staff,...
AESOP Congress 2017: Deadlines postponed!
AESOP Annual Conference, Lisbon July 11-14 2017: Spaces of Dialog for Places of Dignity:Fostering the European Dimension of Planning New Deadlines: Abstratcs – January 30th , Roundtables – January 16th Track: Spaces of dialogue for active, networked and responsible citizenship Chaired by: Camilla Perrone, e-mail: camilla.perrone@unifi.it, Department of Architecture (DIDA), University of Florence, ITALY Lia Vasconcelos, e-mail: ltv@fct.unl.pt, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering,...
SPS Seminar: Climate change vulnerability and the urban poor, with Hanne van den Berg, JAN 12, 2017, 12h30 BK
Climate change vulnerability and the urban poor: Achieving climate justice through urban resilience strategies A seminar by Hanne van den Berg, MSc MA “Even though climate change has an impact on most city dwellers, the urban poor are affected disproportionately as poverty remains a key contributing factor in vulnerability. This is due for instance to the...
