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
Randstad Seminar: The Spatial implications of Energy Transition: Tuesday 31 March 2015
The next Randstad Seminar takes place on Tuesday 31 March 2015, around the central theme of The Spatial implications of Energy Transition. TU Delft Science Centre Mijnbouwstraat 120, 2628 RX Delft 015 278 5200 Collegezaal Tuesday March 31, 2015 15:00-18:00 hs. Save the Date! While energy issues correspond to an already well established research...
CALL FOR PAPERS: 3rd NUL: TALES AND IMAGES OF SPATIAL JUSTICE June 24-26 TU Delft
We are really pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Third International Conference New Urban Languages, to be held in Delft, June 24 to 26 2015 at the Delft University of Technology Full information at http://www.newurbanlanguages.eu This year’s topic is: TALES AND IMAGES OF SPATIAL JUSTICE Discussing New Urban Languages of Equality, Justice and Sustainable Development The thematic session...
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...
Lecture at Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam on Marketplaces
Ceren Sezer (TU Delft) and Freek Janssens (UvA) gave a lecture on ‘Marketplaces as an urban development strategy’ at Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam as a part a temporary Master program called System D Academy. The Sandberg Institute is the postgraduate department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam. It offers Master’s programmes in Fine Arts (MFA), Interior Architecture (MIA), Applied...
Call for abstracts: The power of places & the places of power
University of Glasgow is hosting AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures Annual Meeting (4-6 June 2015, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom) ‘Becoming Local’ Series Annual Meeting : The power of places & the places of power Deadline for abstract submission: 1 April 2015 Keynote speakers: Matthew Carmona (Bartlett School of Planning, UCL) and Panu Lehtovuori (Tampere...
AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures is organising a special session in AESOP Prague Congress – July 2015
LEARNING FROM the ‘BECOMING LOCAL’ MEETING SERIES: Overarching the divide between the current limits of planning and design research and the critical social practice AESOP Conference Prague, 13th to 16th July 2015 Special Session(s) for TRACK 06: Urban Design Quality and its Social Dimension – Organized by Burcu Yigit Turan (Ozyegin University, Istanbul), Sabine Knierbein...
2015 / Academic Writing Skill / Developing countries / Development / Development studies / Latin America / NALACS
SPS is one of the sponsors for the NALACS Thesis Award: Rialto (Amsterdam), 27 FEB, 16:00
The Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy of the TU Delft is co-sponsor for the Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Thesis Award. The NALACS Thesis Award is given to the best thesis written on a Latin American or Caribbean topic in a Dutch higher education institution. The program includes a short documentary, a lecture by...
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...
New book chapter in “OpenStreetMap in GIScience: Experiences, Research, Applications”
A new book chapter has been published by Jorge Gil in the book “OpenStreetMap in GIScience: Experiences, Research, Applications” , edited by Jokar Arsanjani, Zipf, Mooney and Helbich, for the Springer series “Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography”. Title: Building a Multimodal Urban Network Model Using OpenStreetMap Data for the Analysis of Sustainable Accessibility Abstract: This chapter presents...
Stephen Read: Thinking Politics, Scale and Community in Shenzhen, THURSDAY 12 FEB, 2015, 12:30 1WEST290
Stephen Read, Associate Professor at the Department of Urbanism of the TU Delft, presented his work on Thursday 12 FEB. Power, politics and community in Shenzhen Shenzhen is a city that comprises 80% migrants with very few rights. Talking of power in the case of the dispossessed seems like a contradiction in terms. Nevertheless, occupancy...
Professor Susan Buckingham at BOUWKUNDE February 5th 12:30 : “Sex and the City: Why planning for climate change needs is a gender issue”
On FEB 5, Professor Susan Buckingham presented her work on gender and climate change. Susan Buckingham is a feminist geographer whose main focus is on gender and environmental issues. Her teaching, research, and activist work are interlinked through a commitment to environmental and social justice. She has worked with academic and government institutions, as well as...
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...
