ESPON North Sea STAR
The Department of Urbanism/OTB gained funding for an ESPON Targeted Analysis relating to sustainable energy in the North Sea Region. The research seeks to provide recommendations on accelerating the take-up of renewable energy technologies and supporting relevant green economic activities in this region by investigating future energy scenarios, evaluating the effectiveness of regional energy policies...
Regional Governance and Design
On the 21st of November, from 15.00 to 17.30, we will hold a second meeting on the OTB-Urbanism Joint Research Themes at the Hugo Priemus Room at OTB. In this meeting we will focus on the theme ‘Regional Governance and Design’. Research that relates to this theme concerns the policy, politics and administration of territory...
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...
List of Geography, Spatial Planning and Environmental Science Journals
Australian Planner Built Environment Children, Youth and Environments Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action City and Community Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance Community Development Disasters DISP Environment and Planning Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design Environment and Planning D: Society and...
Iranians can’t prolong staying permits.
The Dutch government has yesterday announced its interpretation of the EU regulations on the sanctions of Iran. Stating that these are still undefined, the parliament has decided to give and prolong, for the time being, no staying permits for work and research of any kind, carried out by Iranians in The Netherlands. We would like...
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...
A presentation on the Rio de Janeiro Olympic legacy at SCUPAD
Rio Olympic Legacy: Missed opportunities This presentation was given at the 44th SCUPAD | Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning and Development The theme of this edition was “Frontpage Planning Before and After Major Events, Disasters, and Social Unrest” and Roberto Rocco was invited keynote speaker.44th Annual SCUPAD Congress May 3rd, 2012 in Salzburg, Austria. For...
Spatial Planning and Strategy gets an FP-7 project
The Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy and the OTB have won a bid for a FP7 project (FP7-energy-smartcities-2012) funded by the European Commission as partners with a number of municipalities and universities led by Eskilstuna in Sweden. The project will be called Planning for Energy Efficient Cities (PLEEC). It is worth 350 000 euros...
2012 / Complex Cities studio / External contributors / Guests / Lectures / Methodology / Research / Uncategorized
Rick Vermeulen, of the University of Amsterdam, gives a methodology class
“Rick Vermeulen is an urban planner with a clear interest in metropolitan development. After obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in urban planning and a master in Metropolitan studies, both at the University of Amsterdam, he started a dual career combining both research and practice. Within the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) he has started as PhD candidate...
NWO Grant on the Implementation of TOD
Supported by the Delft Infrastructures & Mobility Initiative (DIMI), the chair of Spatial Planning & Strategy conducted an inventory of Transport Oriented Development (TOD) strategies in the Netherlands, BESTNET. This research into current Dutch practices concluded that the TOD concept is embraced by policy makers in regions but that implementation is hampered by persistent governance,...
Article in the latest issue of ‘Urban Morphology’
‘On the discovery of urban typologies: data mining the many dimensions of urban form’ by J. Gil, J. N. Beirão, N. Montenegro and J. P. Duarte 2012, Urban Morphology 16(1) This article presents a data mining method for the development of typologies suited to the understanding of emerging urban areas that do not fall into...
New publication on knowledge-based development
Edward Elgar has a recently published a book edited by Tan Yigitcanlar, Kostas Metaxiotis, Francisco Carrillo entitled Building Prosperous Knowledge Cities. Policies, Plans and Metrics. The book provides a thorough understanding of the transformations and the key issues in building prosperous knowledge cities by focusing particularly on the policy making, planning process and performance assessment aspects. The contributors...
