Our 2019 group photo
This is our group in 2019 with our vision for the future. In 2019 Professor Vincent Nadin has left the section, as he retired. For information about our group, please write to spatial planning-BK@tudelft.nl
Report Education for the City We Need: How to integrate the New Urban Agenda in Higher Education Curriculums
This is a report on the side event organised by TU Delft at the World Urban Forum in FEB 2018 in Kuala Lumpur. In this event, we presented the results of the Urban Thinkers Campus organised in 2017 at TU Delft on the topic of incorporating the New Urban Agenda in higher education curriculums. An...
PrepCon African Perspectives Executive Report Published
The Department of Urbanism and the Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy took an active role the organisation of the Preparatory Conference African Perspectives on Urbanisation, which took place between 25 and 27 January 2018 in Addis Ababa. This conference was jointly organised by TU Delft and EiABC (the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction...
Roberto Rocco is made member of the editorial board of the two main research journals on spatial planning and city development in Brazil
Roberto Rocco has been recently made member of the editorial board of two peer-reviewed journals of spatial planning in Brazil. The Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais (Brazilian Review of Urban and Regional Studies) is connected to ANPUR, the National Association of Post Graduate Studies and Research on Urban and Regional Planning (long name!). ANPUR...
Faculty of Architecture raises awareness on the Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable Development Goals: WHAT’S YOUR GOAL? The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 global goals set by 193 United Nations members states in 2013 with the objective to guide sustainable development in the next 15 years. The SDGs cover a broad range of social and economic development issues and are part of the...
The Urbanisation of (In)justice – 16-18 May 2018 – The UN Buffer Zone in Nicosia
The University of Cyprus, Department of Architecture invites you to the annual meeting of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)’s Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures, which will take place in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Nicosia in the period between 16th and 18th May 2018. This meeting is organised in...
SPS Seminar: Prof. Dag Kitang – Urban development and the conflict modernisation and renewal, 13 March, 12:30
SPS Seminar Speaker: Prof. Dag Kitang Topic: Urban development and the conflict modernisation and renewal Time and place: Tuesday 13 March 2018, 12:30-13:30, BG West 640, BK, TU Delft Dag Kittang is a professor in urban conservation and planning at the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He...
SPS Seminar: Esther González-González – Autonomous vehicles & the city of tomorrow
Speaker: Esther González-González, University of Cantabria Topic: Autonomous vehicles & the city of tomorrow Room: OO West 64 Date: Tuesday 6 March, 12:30-13:30 Abstract: Automated Vehicles (AV) would undoubtedly have a great and significant impact on urban mobility, urbanisation patterns and the quality and use of urban space within the next 30-50 years. A key question...
The World Urban Forum 9 in Kuala Lumpur
Text by Roberto Rocco 22.000 people took part in the World Urban Forum 9 in Kuala Lumpur, + more or less 4.000 support staff. 48% of these people were women. I don’t know how many were from the Global South, but certainly more than 50%. The great topic of this WUF was implementation of the...
Prof. Dag Kittang – guest Professor at TU Delft from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Dag Kittang is a professor in urban conservation and planning at the Faculty of Architecture and Design at. He has a master in architecture and defended his doctoral dissertation on “The wooden town of Trondheim – modernisation or conservation” in 2006. He is doing research on the topic architectural and urban conservation and together with The...
SPS Seminar by Hsinko Yu on participatory planning and urban vitality (8 February, 12:00-13:00)
You are warmly invited, dear SPS blog guest, to the forthcoming Spatial Planning & Strategy Seminar on Thursday 8 February 2018 from 12:00 to 13:00. The speaker will be Cinco Hsinko Yu (TU Delft). He will present his on-going research on participatory planning and urban vitality in a context of urban regeneration in Taipei, Taiwan. The...
New guest researcher – Esther González-González, University of Cantabria
The Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy has a new guest – Esther González-González from the University of Cantabria. Esther came to TU Delft to work, among others, with Dominic Stead on automated vehicles and planning. She will present her research as part of the SPS Seminar Series on 6 March 2018, so stay tuned...
SPS in charge of Quarter 3 of the Urbanism Masters Track: Booklet published
Verena Balz and Qu Lei are responsible for Quarter 3 in the Urbanism Masters track at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the TU Delft. This quarter is about regional planning and design. This is the booklet that explains the methods and objectives of the quarter. Roberto Rocco and Marcin Dabrowski are...
