SPS Seminar: Mohammad Ghanbari – Liveable Cities. Case Study: Masshad, Iran
Thursday November 5, 12:30-13:30 Speaker: Mohammad Ghanbari (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, visiting scholar at the Department of Urbanism) Topic: Liveable Cities. Case Study: Masshad, Iran. Room: BG west 270 Abstract: By 2050 70% of the global population will reside within cities. We all have different reasons to live in a city. Some cities appear comfortable to live in. Some are...
Dana McKinney from GSD Harvard talks #spatial justice #equality #fairness to EMU_TUDelft students
The Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy has had the honour to invite Dana McKinney to visit TU Delft and talk about race relations, spatial justice, equity and fairness in urban design and planning at the Urbanism and Landscape Week and to talk to students of the European Master of Urbanism @TU Delft. Dana McKinney is a fourth...
Le Genre, La Ville
The CNRS International Interdsiciplinary research group on work, gender and societies published a thematic issue on The City in its scientific journal ‘Travail, Genre et Societés’. The issue was presented with a debate at Sorbonne University, Paris, Wednesday 27th May. Lidewij Tummers contributed to the issue as well as the debate on ‘Gender stereotypes in...
Markets as barometers of urban place, Guest lecture by Dr Kirsten Seale, Moderator: Freek Janssens, Discussants: Ceren Sezer, Asli Duru
University of Amsterdam (UvA) Centre for Urban Studies is hosting a guest lecture by Dr. Kirsten Seale entitled Markets as barometer of urban places in April 16, 2015. In her lecture, Dr. Seale will talk about social and spatial narratives of place production in globalised twenty-first century cities through communities and experiences produced in urban markets. By doing...
What is wrong with the University of Amsterdam (or Dutch universities in general) ? An excellent talk in the occupied Maagdenhuis
The students and the staff of the University of Amsterdam occupied an administrative building of the university – Maagdenhuis in Spuiplein- in February 26 2015. This was a reaction to the decisions of the university administration to sell the university’s properties to the real estate developers. Since then Maagdenhuis hosts a line of fruitful debates,...
Agnes Förster’s lecture on “Regional design as a communicative planning practice”
On 19 February, Agnes Förster from the Munich University of Technology (Technische Universität München) delivered a lecture on “Regional design as a communicative planning practice – Approaches to its performance” as part of the Spatial Planning Seminar Series. Here you will find the slides and a video from the lecture. Abstract In numerous European regions planning...
Marcin Dąbrowski publishes an open access paper on financial instruments for urban development in RSRS
Marcin Dąbrowski (post-doc at the Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy) just published a paper offering a critical assessment of financial engineering instruments for urban development used as part of EU cohesion policy. The paper was published in the Open Access format in Regional Studies, Regional Science (RSRS), a new online journal of the Regional Studies Association. The...
RSA Workshop on Cross-national policy transfer in regional and urban policy
In a globalising world, many countries, regions and cities face similar challenges. As a result, governments and policy-makers increasingly look for policy solutions, ideas and ‘good practice’ examples from other countries, seeking to adapt them to their domestic contexts. At the same time, certain states or supranational and international organisations are keen to export their...
IDEA League PhD School, Guangzhou
Phd candidates from around Europe visited Guangzhou and Singapore in November 2014 as part of the IDEA League PhD School on ‘urban systems’. Professor Han Meyer and Yuting Tai of urban design organised the Guangzhou visit. Spatial Planning played an important part in the Guangzhou visit through our existing cooperation programme. Colleagues in Guangzhou including...
2014 / Developing countries / Development / Development studies / Guests / RPS / Seminar / Uncategorized
SPS Seminar: Hongyuan Yang – Major spatial planning concerns in China
Speaker:Dr. Hongyuan Wang, China Academy of Urban Planning and Design (our guest researcher – Urban Knowledge Network Asia fellow) Title: Major concerns and instruments of spatial planning practices in China Abstract: China is a fast developing country facing many challenges. Spatial planning plays a major role in solving these problems in China. This presentation focuses on the following questions:...
The AESOP Thematic Group, Public Spaces and Urban Cultures “Becoming Local Paris” Meeting’s program is available online!
Becoming Local Series are mobile debates and workshops organised by the AESOP (The Association of European Schools of Planning) working group ‘Public Spaces and Urban Cultures’ in collaboration with the local organisers. For more information about the previous events and the working group, please visit: http://www.becominglocalistanbul.org , http://becominglocalbucharest.ro and http://www.aesop-planning.eu/blogs/en_GB/urban-cultures-and-public-spaces) BECOMING LOCAL PARIS / OCTOBER 23-25, 2014...
NCKU / Partnerships / RPS / SCUT / Summer School / Taiwan / Taiwan partnership / Uncategorized / Visiting students
Summer School Planning and Design with Water
Thirty-two Chinese and Taiwanese students have completed the programme of the 1st Summer School Planning and Design with Water, organised by the Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy (Vincent Nadin and Roberto Rocco) in partnership with the chair of Environmental Technology & Design of the TU Delft (Fransje Hooimeijer) and the Department of Urban Planning of...
