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
Cross-border planning in the Danube Region, by Andreas Faludi
End of November 2017, Andreas Faludi is chairing this panel at the Conference on Macro-regional policy challenges and best practice solutions for cross-border planning, governance and interoperability. Faludi writes: My statement to participants states the obvious: Crossing borders can be hard business. I could have given the example of my mother crossing the Hungarian-Austrian border...
SUMMER SCHOOL PUERTO RICO SCHOLARSHIP AND SPECIAL FEES
This announcement concerns the Summer School Planning and Design with Water, organised at the Department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Bouwkunde, TU Delft Puerto Rico has recently experienced an extreme climate event in the form of Hurricane Maria. Extreme climate events are bound to become more frequent with climate...
What organisations can help TU Delft fund more students from the Global South to come to our Summer School Planning and Design with Water?
A question to all planners and designers, policy makers and NGO people out there. What organisations could help us (TU Delft) fund students from the Global South who wish to come to our Summer School Planning and Design with Water? Would you please give us suggestions below? This is the letter we have prepared: Dear...
Dominic Stead co-chairs next AESOP track Gothenburg 2018
Dominic Stead, together with Lukas Smas from Stockholm University and Anais De Keijser from the Technical University of Darmstadt, will be a track co-chair at next year’s annual congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP). There will be sixteen tracks at next year’s AESOP congress and Dominic will be responsible for the...
An alternative list of the 100 Most Influential Urbanists
Planetizen has recently published a list of “100 most influential Urbanists”. However, we found the list a bit messy and Anglo-Saxon centred. It does have some important highlights (Jane Jacob is number one, and it also mentions Naomi Klein and Rosa Parks as urbanists, which we think is an interesting take on what it means to...
LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 Latin America
Ooze architects was awarded the Bronze prize at the recent LafargeHolcim 2017 Awards, the world’s most significant competition in sustainable construction. From over 750 entries across Latin America (and over 5,000 worldwide), their project Água Carioca was selected as a leading example of innovative design. The jury highlighted the ‘intelligence and playfulness’ with which Ooze took on the pressing challenge...
NALACS THESIS AWARD 2016-2017
NALACS, the Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, promotes events and networking opportunities for students, researchers and professionals interested in Latin American and Caribbean studies working in the Netherlands. NALACS promotes events and networking opportunities for students, researchers and professionals interested in Latin American and Caribbean studies working in the Netherlands. Every year,...
Roudtable: Redefining planning in Northern Europe
Dominic Stead contributed to the roundtable discussion on redefining planning in Northern Europe at this year’s Nordic Planning Research Symposium (Plannord) in Helsinki. Together with Daniel Galland (Norwegian University of Life Sciences), Lukas Smas (Nordregio), Raine Mäntysalo (Aalto University) and Frank Othengrafen (Leibniz Universität Hannover), he highlighted some of the ways in which contemporary planning...
Women and urban mobilities
Inspired by the European mobility week, Bordeaux Metropole organizes a multi-disciplinary conference on September 22nd 2017 entitled “Femmes et mobilités urbaines” focusing on the mobility of women. Bordeaux university presents new empirical research on gendered use of transport modalities. SPS member of staff Lidewij Tummers presents a contribution on the urban planning perspective. She will...
Remon Rooij publishes chapter on public space at Routledge
Together with former Delft master Urbanism student dr Anastasia Moiseeva and prof. Harry Timmermans, both from Eindhoven University, SPS staff member Remon Rooij co-authored a chapter called The Restructuring of Urban Public Space in the ‘Baltic Pearl’ in the Routledge book on Public Space – Between Reimagination and Occupation (Hristova & Czepczynski (eds)). This book...
A is for Africa: Call for Contributions: African Perspectives Preparatory Conference
A is for Africa African Perspectives Preparatory Conference 9-11 November 2017, EiABC, Addis Ababa. Joint event organised by the Delft University of Technology and the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development We are now collecting proposals for the African Perspectives Preparatory Conference organised by the Delft University of Technology in partnership...
Successful Kick-off new academic year for SPS
The section of Spatial Planning & Strategy had a very fruitful and visible kick-off of the new 2017-2018 academic year. More than 1,400 students saw one or more of our SPS staff members during the first week of the academic year. SPS staff member Roberto Rocco welcomed more than 600 master students via lectures and...
