TOD strategies for Tirana, Albania. By Dorina Pojani.
During the second SP&S seminar in this period, Dorina Pojani presented parts of her PhD research which she has carried out at the Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania, and the University of California, Los Angeles. In her research she examined potentialities for urban transport planning in the city of Tirana. She demonstrated that large parts...
New round of SP&S seminars
The SP&S seminars start again on Thursday, the 6th of September. The formula remains. Researchers at and around our chair will present and discuss their work. We have planned seminars on Thursdays, once or twice a month. The location will always be BK, 01-west-290. Please see the attached file for the overall program. Please also...
iCities conference in Tainan brings Urbanism schools together
The International Forum on Innovative Planning Education & Studio Exhibition took place this summer in the College of Plannnig and Design at the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan, South-West Taiwan. the conference brought together several planning and design schools (University of the West of England, University of California, Tokyo University, Manchester, Washington University...
Joint Utrecht – TU Delft bid wins AESOP 2014 Congress
At its May meeting in Oslo the AESOP Council of Representatives chose the joint bid from the University of Utrecht and TU Delft to host the Annual Congress of AESOP in July 2014. See http://www.aesop2014.eu The proposal presented by Professors Luuk Boelens and Vincent Nadin offered the combined strengths of the two institutions – a...
RSA Conference organised in partnership with OTB and participation of the Chair of Spatial Planning
The RSA EUROPEAN CONFERENCE 2012 took place at TU Delft between May 13th and 16th The theme of the conference, organised in partnership with the OTB Research Institute, was Networked regions and cities in times of fragmentation: Developing smart, sustainable and inclusive places. The Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy helped OTB organise the conference. The...
Spatial Planning TU Delft Boat Event
Spatial Planning TU Delft Boat Event, a set on Flickr. On Saturday 21 April, the Chair Spatial Planning and Strategy gathered for a social event. The Chair was invited by one of its members, Alexander Vollebregt, for a Spring celebration aboard his boat “Avontuur”, anchored on one of the renewed docks of Rotterdam, with the...
Nuno Pinto: applications of modelling techniques in planning and design
According to the organiser of this event, Bardia Mashhoodi,PhD candidate at TU Delft at the Chair of Urban Design, :”In the last few years, applying computer generated simulation models has become very fashionable in academic research in the fields of spatial planning and design. At the same time, the use of such models has come...
UWE visits TU Delft
Students from the Spatial Planning programme of the University of the West of England in Bristol visited TU Delft in March 2012. The visit is part of the filed trip first-years make to the Netherlands in the course coordinated by Marcus Grant. This is the third time UWE students visit TU Delft. Students and teachers...
Rafael Saraiva presented his work at Bouwkunde, March 23 2012
Rafael Saraiva is a former student of the studio Complex Cities. He graduated with the project “Knowledge Backbone for Rio de Janeiro”, supervised by Akkelies van Nes, Thorsten Schuze and Roberto Rocco. The project envisaged new connections between the city centre and the airport and the redevelopment of urban voids along the coast, including key...
The (im)possible Design of the Randstad
On the occasion of him leaving his practical chair of Spatial Planning & Strategy, Prof. Ir. Joost Schrijnen gave a lecture titled ‘The Impossible Design of the Randstad”. Despite this pessimistic title, the lecture turned out to be a plaidoyer for regional design. Reviewing the way how spatial structures have been perceived in recent decades and evaluating...
Andres Borthagaray talks about mobility, urban design and culture MONDAY 28 NOV 18h00 Berlagezaal 2
Invitation for a Lecture The Complex City Regions Graduation Lab and the Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy invite you for the lecture of Prof. Andres Borthagaray. Borthagaray links mobility, urban design and culture. The lecture happens in the context of the studio research on the local conditions for metropolitan development. ...
Reza Shirazi and the Tehran-Karaj Urban Region. 24 November 12h45 at TU Delft
Reza Shirazi (Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Technical University of Berlin ) is visiting the Chair Spatial Planning and Strategy for a short time since last month. He is studying urban poly-centricity in Middle Eastern and North African cities. Next Thursday on 24 November (Thursday), he will present his current research: Tehran-Karaj Urban Region and the Question of Polycentricity;...
