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Spatial planning and strategy is a chair in the Department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the Delft University of Technology. We are concerned with knowledge about the formulation, implementation and evaluation of strategic and urban planning tools - visions, strategies, plans and programmes.

Our 2019 group photo

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
Book Celebrating Spatial Planning at TU Delft

Book Celebrating Spatial Planning at TU Delft

On the occasion of Professor Vincent Nadin’s retirement after 11 years at TU Delft, the section Spatial Planning and Strategy launched a book celebrating Vincent’s time as head of the section and later a head of department. This book is a compilation of all our activities during those eleven years....
SPS is part of the Department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the TU Delft

SPS is part of the Department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the TU Delft

SPS is part of the Department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the TU Delft. Click on the logo to go to the official website of the Department of Urbanism Urbanism The Department of Urbanism in the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology...
Join our INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MAILING LIST

Join our INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MAILING LIST

  The chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy promotes activities concerning International Urban Development. This concerns mostly issues of urban development in the Global South. This includes (but is not limited to) urban management, housing, informal urbanisation, governance, resources management, territorial management, urban emergencies, among other topics concerning the built environment in the Global...
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Join our Facebook group! 5000+ people have done so!

5000+ people have joined our group on Facebook since its creation. That is the space we use to comment on current events, to discuss books and papers and to share the social life of the chair.Go to our Facebook group page by clicking HERE!  
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500+ people have joined our LinkeIN group so far. You can also join!

Click here for our LinkedIN Group. Our LinkedIN Group has 500+ people as of October 2012. Join us for updates and announcements.
Welcome to the BLOG Spatial Planning and Strategy of the Delft University of Technology

Welcome to the BLOG Spatial Planning and Strategy of the Delft University of Technology

  Spatial planning and strategy is a chair in the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology led by Professor Wil Zonneveld. We are concerned with knowledge about the formulation, implementation and evaluation of strategic and urban planning tools – visions, strategies, plans and programmes. We are particularly...
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Alexander Wandl presents at the SPS Seminar

Alexander Wandl presents at the SPS Seminar

Alexandre Wandl has presented at the customary lunch seminar promoted by the Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy. Wandl has spoken about the research and recently published book “Amsterwam”, which he wrote in collaboration with Frank van den Hoeven. The book is available at http://press.tudelft.nl/index.php/press/catalog/book/17 Amsterwarm contributes through the development of an area typology to...
Students from the Graduation Studios in Urbanism at TU Delft present at Methodology Course

Students from the Graduation Studios in Urbanism at TU Delft present at Methodology Course

Bart van Leeuwen‎ (Urban Regeneration); Emma Grün (Complex Cities)‎; Erjen Prins (Vertical Cities Asia)‎; and Evelien van Winsen ‎(Design and Politics) presented the state of their on-going graduation work to MSc2 students in the Methodology course. The idea was to introduce first year students to the work of the Graduation Studios through the work of their students....
Elise van Dooren gives a workshop on design processes at the Methodology Course

Elise van Dooren gives a workshop on design processes at the Methodology Course

In March, Elise van Dooren from the Chair of Architectural Engineering of the TU Delft gave a workshop at the MSc2 Methodology course (AR2U090). This workshop was organised by Egbert Stolk and van Dooren. The workshop challenged students to reflect on their design process and presented interesting findings in design processes for architects. Here are...
Suwanna Rongwiriyaphanich presents advancements in her PhD research at the RSP Seminar Series

Suwanna Rongwiriyaphanich presents advancements in her PhD research at the RSP Seminar Series

On March 7, Suwanna Rongwiriyaphanich [S.Rongwiriyaphanich@tudelft.nl], presented advancements of her doctoral research in the RPS Seminar Series. Her work on the importance of understanding cultures in flood management. In her own words: “Why understanding cultures in flood management is necessary? Civilisation has experienced increasing environmental challenges caused by conflicts between the growing population with the increasing...
100 grad students from the University of the West of England at TU Delft

100 grad students from the University of the West of England at TU Delft

The chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy has received 100 grad students and teachers from the Planning Course at the University of the West of England (UWE) at Bristol. The 100 students and teachers were led by Marcus Grant of the Institute of Sustainability, Health and Environment of the UWE. The Chair of Spatial Planning...
Former TU Delft student, Anastasia Moiseeva, defends her PhD at Eindhoven University

Former TU Delft student, Anastasia Moiseeva, defends her PhD at Eindhoven University

Anastasia Moiseeva is a former Masters student of TU Delft. She moved on and now she will defend her PhD entitled Experience the City: Analysis of Space-Time Behavior and Spatial  Learning” at the Eindhoven University. The defense will take place on the 24th April (Wednesday) at 16.00 Collegzaal 4 ( Auditorium ) of the University. Click here to access...
The Governance of Large Urban Projects. Sebastião Bhatt presents at the SPS Seminar series.

The Governance of Large Urban Projects. Sebastião Bhatt presents at the SPS Seminar series.

Sebastião M.F. Bhatt is a visiting PhD candidate/researcher at the chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy, TU Delft. His institution of origin is the  I.C.S.-University of Lisbon and his topic of research is the governance of large-scale urban development projects. On February 21st, Sebastião presented the general lines of his inquiry in our SPS Seminar...
Polycentric Metropolitan Areas in the Process of Metropolisation. By Evert Meijers.

Polycentric Metropolitan Areas in the Process of Metropolisation. By Evert Meijers.

During the 8th SP&S seminar Evert Meijers presented his recent research on polycentric metropolitan areas. He described ‘metropolisation’ as an upward development spiral to more welfare, more sustainability and, inevitably, more happiness. The beckoning perspective of metropolisation did not come as a surprise to the audience. The vocabulary he used to describe a pathway was...

Randstad seminar #04: Local structure and coherence in China today

The 4th Randstad research seminar took place in OTB on the 20th February 2013 with about 30 people in attendance. Prof Frank Pieke, a specialist in the Chinese state and government, was due to speak to us in the context of the INTI-led Shenzhen project but had to cancel at the last moment. In the...

Paper published in Inflexions

Arakawa and Gins have been amongst the most innovative thinkers on the subject of action and space. The paper I submitted to this special issue on them is now on-line. It continues the thinking on the collective and technical conditions of action I began with Technicity and Publicness.
Article published in Urban Design and Planning by Jorge Gil

Article published in Urban Design and Planning by Jorge Gil

An article by PhD student Jorge Gil reviewing existing tools for evaluating the sustainability of urban design has been published in the Proceedings of the ICE – Urban Design and Planning. From the abstract: “[…] This article identifies and reviews a selection of sustainable urban development evaluation tools that are applicable to the early stages of urban...
Critical Regionalism/Anti-Regionalism

Critical Regionalism/Anti-Regionalism

During the 7th SP&S seminar Liane Lefaivre presented some of the history of the polemics surrounding the issue ‘regionalism’ in the Post World War II world.  By reviewing the discourse on regionalism which took place in the US between the 1930s and 60s she demonstrated how planning and design styles rapidly changed under the influence...