2014 / Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado / BLOG Planning Latin America / Developing countries / Development / Development studies / Latin America
Gathering of Latin American Researchers of Bouwkunde and OTB
Latin American researchers of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment gathered for an informal meeting in April to get to know each other and discuss further collaboration. The gathering is part of the effort of the Chair Spatial Planning and Strategy to foster initiatives in international development partnerships. Meeting at the restaurant Rossio...
2014 / Developing countries / Development / Development studies / Latin America / Lectures / Roberto Rocco
Roberto Rocco discussant at CEDLA Ester Limonad’s lecture
Roberto Rocco was discussant for Ester Limonad’s lecture at CEDLA (Center for Latin American Research and Documentation) of the University of Amsterdam. Limonad is professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and is spending a period as guest scholar at the University of Leiden. Limonad talked about past and recent trends in Brazilian...
BRAZILIAN WEEK at LEIDEN UNIVERSITY 2014 31 MARCH-3 APRIL
BRAZILIAN WEEK at LEIDEN UNIVERSITY 2014 31 MARCH-3 APRIL A wide range of activities are planned focusing on Brazil and its culture in national, Latin American and global contexts. Alongside academic events, there is a have-a-go workshop on Brazilian music and song (no prior knowledge of Portuguese required!), film screenings and more. Come and join...
2014 / Alexander Vollebregt / Conferences / Developing countries / Development / Development studies / Events / External contributors / Lectures / Research / Roberto Rocco
SAVE THE DATE FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES! 19th of March 2014 AFTERNOON
SAVE THE DATE FOR DEVELOPMENT! 19th of March 2014 AFTERNOON Students of the EXPLORE LAB GRAD STUDIO of TU Delft with the support of the CHAIR SPATIAL PLANNING AND STRATEGY will promote an event about the tools of knowledge and methodologies that can be applied in the built environment where informal processes are closely interrelated...
2013 / BLOG Planning Latin America / Developing countries / Development / Development studies / Roberto Rocco
Paper on informal urbanisation published in Third World Quarterly
A paper written by alumnus Jan Ballegoijen (presently at Crimson Rotterdam) and Roberto Rocco on issues of informal urbanisation has been published by Third World Quarterly. Abstract: This paper discusses how urban informality in the developing world has been understood in the West, and how it has been incorporated in the discourse of urban architects...
2014 / AESOP / Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado / BLOG Planning Latin America / Developing countries / Development / Development studies / Dominic Stead / Latin America / Partnerships / Roberto Rocco
Special panel at AESOP 2014: Planning Latin America
AESOP 2014 Conference in Utrecht, The Netherlands July 9-12, 2014 Call for papers for a special panel in: Track 11: International Comparative Planning http://aesop2014.eu Panel 1: Critical characterization of spatial planning/territorial management in Latin America: How is spatial planning conceived and enacted in Latin America? Panel organizers: Dr. Ana Maria Fernandez Maldonado, Dr. Roberto...
Taneha Bacchin presents at the SPS SEMINAR SERIES on NOV 14
We cordially invite you to the next seminar of our SPS seminar series 2013-2014. Our colleague Taneha Bacchin from the chair of Environmental Technology & Design (led by Professor Arjan van Timmeren) will talk about “A multi-scale approach in the planning and design of green-blue cities”. Taneha is a PhD candidate at TU Delft and...
New publication: A themed issue ‘ Marketplaces as an Urban Development Strategy’ in Built Environment (October 2013)
A new themed issue on ‘ Marketplaces as an Urban Development Strategy’ will be available soon in Built Environment in October 2013. (http://www.alexandrinepress.co.uk/default.php) The editors of Built Environment are Sir Peter Hall, Professor David Banister and Dr Stephen Marshall The guest editors of the themed issue are Freek Janssens from the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research,...
2013 / Development / Development studies / Guests / Partnerships / Roberto Rocco / Visiting scholars
SCUPAD preparatory meeting takes place at BK
The preparatory meeting of the Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning and Development (SCUPAD) took place in Delft between 26 and 28 of September 2013. SCUPAD is an independent, non-profit, international network organization of planners and development specialists, which was founded by the fellows of the Salzburg Global Seminar’s Planning session in 1965. As an alumni organization of...
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...
Integrating sustainability and spatial planning, by Roberto Rocco
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Housing in Ecuador: Meet the Developers on TUE May 7 at 10h30 in room 1WEST060
On Tuesday MAY 7 from 10:30 to 11:30 (room 1WEST 060), we will receive ECO&ARQUITECTOS. They are an Ecuadorian group of developers/architects working in Guayaquil, Ecuador. As commercial developers, they are in charge of developing a neighborhood with 12.600 low cost housing units for the Ministry of Housing of that country. We would like to invite...
