Jorge Gil at the SPS Seminar Series
Jorge Gil presented his research on The sustainable mobility potential of TOD neighbourhoods in the city-region at the SPS Seminar Series Abstract: Departing from the concept of ‘multi-modal urban regional development’ in Bertolini and le Clercq (2003), the urban environment is described using a framework where the urban activity space is organised by modes of movement (non-motorised,...
Randstad Seminar: Urban farming in city regions: a relevant topic for spatial planning and design?
Urbanism Randstad Research Programme Regional Governance, Planning and Design Research Cluster Research Seminar: March 20th, from 15:00-17:00 at OTB, TU Delft, Hugo Priemus Zaal TOPIC: Urban farming in city regions: a relevant topic for spatial planning and design? Urban farming has received a lot of attention in the last few years. For many, food production...
RSA workshop on the new cycle of the Cohesion Policy in 2014-2020 MONDAY 24 MARCH 2014
RSA workshop on the new cycle of the Cohesion Policy in 2014-2020 The Group Spatial Planning and Strategy of the Department of Urbanism of the TU Delft co-organises this workshop in collaboration with partners at Cosmopolis and the Institute for European Studies (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), the European Policies Research Centre (University of Strathclyde) and Prague University...
Roundtable session at AESOP 2014: Marketplaces as an Urban Development Strategy
Marketplaces are often romanticised as traditional spaces of ‘pure’ encounters between producers and consumers in an increasingly privatised world. Farmer’s Markets are well-known example of this and several city governments seem to have embraced the urban marketplace as a tool for ‘placemaking.’ Yet this enthusiasm needs to be supported by a critical analysis of...
The UN HABITAT invites the AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces & Urban Cultures to WUF7, Medellin Colombia
The UN HABITAT invited the AESOP thematic group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures to organize a networking event at The World Urban Forum 7 (WUF7) in April 5-11 2014, Medellin, Colombia. To foster dialogue between global tendencies and local needs, this networking session will be organized as open as possible to the local public, inviting...
The AESOP TG Public Spaces and Urban Cultures Becoming Local Istanbul Meeting
The AESOP TG Public Spaces and Urban Cultures (PSUC) and Ozyegin University held a very productive meeting in Istanbul (Nov 20-23, 2013) under the working theme, Becoming Local. PSUC Coordination team would like to thank to all of the local committee members, particularly to the Dean of Faculty of Architecture, Orhan Hacihasanoglu and coordinator Burcu...
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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...
CALL FOR PAPERS: SCUPAD 2014: Salzburg 16-18 May 2014
The following call for papers could be of interest to you. Please forward the message further within your networks. With best regards on behalf of the SCUPAD organizing committee, – CALL FOR PAPERS – 46th Annual SCUPAD Congress May 16th -18th, 2014 in Salzburg, Austria No Time to Waste: Planning to Reduce,...
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...
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...
