Professor Mariana Fix of the University of Campinas presents at the TU Delft
Mariana Fix, Professor of Economics at the University of Campinas (Brazil) talked about “Global finance and the right to the city struggle in Brazil”. Mariana is an architect and urbanist by the University of Sao Paulo, with a post-graduate Masters in Sociology and a PhD in Economics. She follows urban social movements in Brazil closely...
Andreas Faludi: European Spatial Planning à la carte?
What if the containers that we came to see as the dominant planning spaces in Europe, the national territories and the many other administrative ones below, would follow a pathway of decay? Against the background of his science of European spatial planning and a brief review of recent debates on the role of the EU,...
Andreas Faludi on Territory and Territoriality.
During the fourth meeting on OTB/Urbanism joint research themes, held on the 10th of April, 15.00-17.00 at the Hugo Priemus Zaal, OTB, Andeas Faludi will discuss his recent work on territorial cohesion, territorialism and territoriality. He will review these concepts central to European spatial planning as well as related forms of planning to argue ‘…that...
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...
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...
Former TU Delft student, Anastasia Moiseeva, defends her PhD at Eindhoven University
Anastasia Moiseeva is a former Masters student of TU Delft. She moved on and now she will defend her PhD entitled Experience the City: Analysis of Space-Time Behavior and Spatial Learning” at the Eindhoven University. The defense will take place on the 24th April (Wednesday) at 16.00 Collegzaal 4 ( Auditorium ) of the University. Click here to access...
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...
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...
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:
Territorial Governance
The 2nd meeting on OTB-Urbanism Joint Research Themes took place on November 21st at the Hugo Priemus zaal at the OTB. The aim of the meeting was to bring aspects of territorial governance that are addressed in ongoing research in both groups to the foreground. Roberto Rocco gave a general introduction on governance. In this...
Lecture Issues of Governance in Regional Planning
[issuu width=420 height=158 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=121122153313-add6dcb4df4641578fd9890f7232f464 name=issues_of_governance_in_regional_planning username=robertorocco tag=city-regions unit=px v=2] Issues of Governance in Regional Planning. This a lecture given at the seminar Regional Governance Planning and Design on November 21st at the OTB Research Institute. The lecture was prepared by Roberto Rocco. The seminar was organized by Professor Wil Zonneveld, Verena Balz and Roberto...
Movie with TU Delft students at Winterschool Zuidas
Earlier in 2012, students of the Departments of Urbanism and Real Estate and Housing have participated in a Winter School organised by the Bureau Zuidas, the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment of the Netherlands, and the Rotterdam Biennale of Architecture, coordinated by the Architectural Office Site UD of Amsterdam. The TU Delft students were...
