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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...
Join our Facebook group! 5000+ people have done so!

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!  
500+ people have joined our LinkeIN group so far. You can also join!

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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Doctoral Defence of Jeroen van Schaick: December 9 at 12h00

Jeroen van Schaik (NL), PhD Candidate The doctoral defence of Jeroen van Schaick will take place on December 9 at 12h00 at the TU Delft AULA. At 12h00 he will give a preliminary talk.  The tile of Jeroen’s PhD dissertation is ‘Timespace matters: Exploring the gap between knowing about activity patterns of people and knowing...
Complex Cities student Hanne van den Berg selected as ‘Best TU Delft graduate'

Complex Cities student Hanne van den Berg selected as ‘Best TU Delft graduate’

This is a transcription of the article published by the BK-City News on 10.11.2011. For the original article, please visit here. Hanne van den Berg selected as ‘Best TU Delft graduate’ 10 November 2011 by M&C Architecture student Hanne van den Berg (MSc, Urbanism) has been selected for the UfD-Mecanoo ‘Best TU Delft Graduate’ prize for...
Seminar on Chinese Urban Development 18 Nov 2011 Bouwkunde room C 13h45

Seminar on Chinese Urban Development 18 Nov 2011 Bouwkunde room C 13h45

Urban development in China: priorities and dilemmasA Seminar organized by the studio Complex Cities of the Chair Spatial Planning and Strategy and Real Estate and Housing. In the process of rapid economic development and re-structuring, Chinese cities have undergone three major transitions simultaneously in the last three decades. These are marketization, internationalization and rural-urban migration,...

Governance Lecture: Teaching Governance for Urbanism

Governance Lecture Series 1: Governance for Urbanism.
Making Room for People: Choice, Voice and Liveability in Residential Places, a new book

Making Room for People: Choice, Voice and Liveability in Residential Places, a new book

Making Room for People Choice, Voice and Liveability in Residential Places   Edited by Lei Qu and Evert Hasselaar Published by: Techne Press Authors: Gabriela Rendón, Edward Hulsbergen, Paul Stouten, Evert Hasselaar, Luuk Boelens, Anne-Jo Visser, Hein de Haan, Lidewij Tummers, Lei Qu   Making Room for People elaborates on preferences in housing. It explores...
Thorsten Schuetze in Integrated Urban Resource Management

Thorsten Schuetze in Integrated Urban Resource Management

Thorsten Schuetze from the Chair of Environmental Design will present his present research during our RPS seminar on 20 October(Thursday). The presentation title is: Integrated Urban Resource Management Please don’t hesitate to join our seminar series. The presentation will start from 12.45 to 13.45  in the room 01-west-290, BK.

Why Internationalise? An article on the internationalisation of the university

Why Internationalise? A text on the internationalisation of the university (click to download) Open publication – Free publishing – More governance
Governance Lectures: Property X Justice

Governance Lectures: Property X Justice

Governance Lecture Series 1: Governance for Urbanism View more presentations from Roberto Rocco
RPS Seminar 29 September: Fernando Osuna Pérez, University of Granada, Spain

RPS Seminar 29 September: Fernando Osuna Pérez, University of Granada, Spain

Our new guest researcher Fernando Osuna Pérez from University of Granada (Spain) will present his present research during our RPS seminar on 29 September (coming Thursday). The presentation title is: Cordoba and the Guadalquivir: characterization of the best sites for its strategic development around the river channel Some key words include: Cordoba, Guadalquivir, city and river, waterscapes, metropolitan landscape, fluviality The presentation will...
The Chair Spatial Planning and Strategy is located at TU Delft

The Chair Spatial Planning and Strategy is located at TU Delft

The Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy is led by Professor Vincent Nadin and is located in the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology. We are particularly interested in how intervention through spatial planning can meet the challenge of territorial management in the context of the growing complexity of networked...
Ryan Gravel and the Atlanta Beltline Project

Ryan Gravel and the Atlanta Beltline Project

Ryan Gravel       Ryan Gravel’s 1999 master’s thesis from Georgia Tech in Architecture and City Planning was the original vision for the ambitious Atlanta Beltline – a 22-mile transit greenway that transforms a loop of old railroads with light-rail transit, parks and trails to generate economic growth and protect quality-of-life in 45 neighborhoods...
Ryan Gravel of the Atlanta Beltline Project at TU Delft: OCTOBER 6 2011

Ryan Gravel of the Atlanta Beltline Project at TU Delft: OCTOBER 6 2011

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