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
Planning for the Great Palace Museum Area, Taipei, project bid
The Chair of Spatial Planning is cooperating with the National Taipei University’s Graduate Institute of Urban Studies on a bid to the Taipei City Government. The proposal is to assist with a strategy and regeneration plan for the National Palace Museum, Taipei and the nearby Yangming Mountain National Park. The initiative comes from Yu-Tzu Lin...
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...
New publication on knowledge-based development
Edward Elgar has a recently published a book edited by Tan Yigitcanlar, Kostas Metaxiotis, Francisco Carrillo entitled Building Prosperous Knowledge Cities. Policies, Plans and Metrics. The book provides a thorough understanding of the transformations and the key issues in building prosperous knowledge cities by focusing particularly on the policy making, planning process and performance assessment aspects. The contributors...
The 10 Essential Books for Spatial Planning Students
We have put together a list of 10 essential books for spatial planning students. Our choice is based on ideas put forward by staff of the Chair Spatial Planning and Strategy, compiled by Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado in 2010. We made some bold choices, especially concerning the books we’ve left out. The idea is to get your...
Rafael Saraiva presented his work at Bouwkunde, March 23 2012
Rafael Saraiva is a former student of the studio Complex Cities. He graduated with the project “Knowledge Backbone for Rio de Janeiro”, supervised by Akkelies van Nes, Thorsten Schuze and Roberto Rocco. The project envisaged new connections between the city centre and the airport and the redevelopment of urban voids along the coast, including key...
The (im)possible Design of the Randstad
On the occasion of him leaving his practical chair of Spatial Planning & Strategy, Prof. Ir. Joost Schrijnen gave a lecture titled ‘The Impossible Design of the Randstad”. Despite this pessimistic title, the lecture turned out to be a plaidoyer for regional design. Reviewing the way how spatial structures have been perceived in recent decades and evaluating...
Students presentations available in BLOG
The results of the 2nd assessment moment of the Masters of Urbanism, Complex Cities Graduation Studio is available at our BLOG. The presentations give an overview of the themes and methods being developed by students of the Graduation Studio and are available for download. Visit the Complex Cities Graduation Studio BLOG.
Presentation Tools for Research
Tools for research in areas of design practice: problem finding. View more presentations from Roberto Rocco
Governance for Urbanism: Participation and Reason
[issuu width=420 height=158 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=111222070024-c8404b655c0b4d68957674eec2d1d09c name=participation_and_reason username=robertorocco tag=participation unit=px id=f8335ef6-773d-f10c-98bf-0051cc2fef56 v=2] This the second lecture of the series ‘Governance for Urbanism’, where I contrast two terms relevant for spatial planing and design. In this presentation, i contrast ‘Participation’ and ‘Reason’. This lecture presents the fundamental philosophical arguments for participation in urban development, discusses the...
Justina Muliuolyte and Tadas Jonauskis, former students of Complex Cities, win EUROPAN11 Architectural Competition
Justina Muliuolyte, Tadas Jonauskis and Lukas Rekevicius won the EUROPAN11 architectural competition MULTITALENTED CITY – design proposal for Reims in France. TU Delft spatial planning students win prestigious Europan award with proposals to transform a university campus into a self-sufficient Multitalented City. Europan is a biennial competition for young architects under 40 years old organized by the...
Andres Borthagaray talks about mobility, urban design and culture MONDAY 28 NOV 18h00 Berlagezaal 2
Invitation for a Lecture The Complex City Regions Graduation Lab and the Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy invite you for the lecture of Prof. Andres Borthagaray. Borthagaray links mobility, urban design and culture. The lecture happens in the context of the studio research on the local conditions for metropolitan development. ...
Reza Shirazi and the Tehran-Karaj Urban Region. 24 November 12h45 at TU Delft
Reza Shirazi (Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Technical University of Berlin ) is visiting the Chair Spatial Planning and Strategy for a short time since last month. He is studying urban poly-centricity in Middle Eastern and North African cities. Next Thursday on 24 November (Thursday), he will present his current research: Tehran-Karaj Urban Region and the Question of Polycentricity;...
