2013 / China / Europe / planning / Research / SCUT urban systems and environment / sps / TU Delft / Urbanism / Vincent Nadin
China-EU Forum on Urbanisation
China needs ‘a new type of urbanisation’ and ‘deeper exchange with Europe on urban planning, urban design and sustainable transport’ said Premier Li Keqiang at the China-EU Forum on Urbanisation held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in November. Vincent Nadin, Lily Li and others attended the Forum on behalf of the...
2013 / Alex Wandl / Asia / Complex Cities / Conferences / Development / Governance / planning / Research / RPS / sps / Staff / Urbanism / Vincent Nadin
Melbourne Peri-urban conference
Spatial planning at TU Delft made a major contribution to Beyond the Edge: the first Australian peri-urban conference in Melbourne, organised jointly by La Trobe University and RMIT. Alex Wandl gave a paper based on his PhD project on ‘territories-in-between’ and Vincent Nadin gave the first keynote presentation on Peri-urbanism in Europe (co-authored...
Gender and the city
April 2013 Lidewij Tummers performed a consultancy on Gender and urban development for the Bordeaux region CUB. The programme consisted of two parts: One an interactive workshop with the staff of different departments involved in planning, such as mobility, infrastructure, housing and urban design. As Bordeaux already has strong diversity and social participation policies, this...
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...
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...
Why Internationalise? An article on the internationalisation of the university
Why Internationalise? A text on the internationalisation of the university (click to download) Open publication – Free publishing – More governance Please follow and like us:
The Chair Spatial Planning and Strategy is located at TU Delft
The Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy is led by Professor Vincent Nadin and is located in the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology. We are particularly interested in how intervention through spatial planning can meet the challenge of territorial management in the context of the growing complexity of networked...
Urbanism Department Trip to London 2011: link to photos
Urbanism Department trip to London 2011 Please follow and like us:
An Urban Geography of Globalisation PART 2
Check out this SlideShare Presentation: An Urban Geography of Globalisation PART 2 View more presentations from Roberto Rocco. Please follow and like us:
Methodology for Urbanism: Introductory Lecture 1
Introduction lecture for the course Methodology for Urbanism: Issues of research in an area of design practice Please follow and like us:
TUD Urbanism Introduction (from urbanism brochure)
Urbanism Urbanism (Stedebouwkunde) is the scientific and educational domain at Delft University of Technology concerned with the design, planning and construction of urban areas, including landscape aspects, on all levels of scales (from street level up to patterns of globalization). The approach to Urbanism is both visual and functional with a strong (future oriented) focus...
