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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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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...
Latest entries

RPS Seminar from Camila Prinzon

Camila presents her PhD thesis, ‘Mapping the Morphology of Urban Regions’ on 16th November in RPS Seminar.

RPS Seminar-Stephen Read

On 28 October 2010 Dr. Stephen Read presents his recent work: space and strategy in RPS Seminar. Keywords are urban form, scale, infrastructure.

RPS Seminar-Yawei Chen

Yawei Chen has presented her recent research ‘From Olympic City to World City: Mega-event Strategy and Beijing’s Olympic Legacy’ during our seminar in Berlageroom 2 from 13.00 to 14.00 on October 12, 2010.
Ceren Sezer won the Routledge Prize

Ceren Sezer won the Routledge Prize

Ceren Sezer won the Routledge Prize for her poster entitled “Transformation of Gecekondu Areas and Housing the Urban Poor in Istanbul” at the ISOCARP Congress Exhibition in Nairobi, Kenya in September 2010. The jury members of this competition were:  Jeremy Dawkins (University of Technology Sydney),  Irene Keino (Eco Plan Management Limited, Kenya) and Bert Smolders (urban...
Special issue about market places in Betonart, Turkish architectural magazine

Special issue about market places in Betonart, Turkish architectural magazine

Ceren Sezer and Camila Pinzon Cortés prepared a special issue for a popular Turkish architectural magazine Betonart on market places. This special issue gathers international examples of market places to present how a market place can support spatial, social and economic development of an urban area, thus be useful strategy for urban development. In her article,...

Complex Cities Graduation Studio: See here some of our students’s graduation projec…

Complex Cities Graduation Studio:See here some of our students’s graduation projec…: “See here some of our students’s graduation projects. For more projects, please visit the TU Delft institutional repository and type ‘Comple…”

Poster Complex Cities Graduation Studio

RP&S Seminar-Ceren Sezer on 10th May

We are very pleased to have Ceren Sezer who is from RP &S chair to our RP&S seminar the next Monday . Ceren will present: Investigation of public visibibility as a constituter of urban public culture. Keywords are Public culture, Public visibility and Public spaces.Let’s come to our academic date. We are really welcome you...

RP&S seminar – Ina Klaasen

We are very pleased to have Ina Klaasen who is from RP &S chair to our RP&S seminar the next Monday . Ina will present: Scientific Aspects of Urban Design and Planning. Keywords are Empirical science, Practical Science, Design Research, Research-driven Design, Design-driven Research, Heuristics, Hypotheses .Let’s come to our academic date. We are really...

RP&S seminar – Tamara Rogic

We are very pleased to have Tamara Rogic who is from chair of Building Typology (Architecture Department) to our RP&S seminar this coming Friday. Tamara Rogic will present: Subversiveness of the old: from the Bankside Power Station to the Tate Modern in London. Keywords are industrial buildings; conversion; architectural history; formal approach. Let’s come to...

RP&S seminar-the key issues of development studies and strategy in developing countries

Dear all, Do you want to know the core issue of RP&S chair? Do you want to know current research among RP&S members? Then, it’s the right moment to come to our RP&S seminar.Alexander, Diego, Roberto and Ana Maria from RPS chair will raise debate about the key issues of development studies and strategy in...

RP&S seminar- Prof. Nadin

Do you want to improve the presentation of your research paper? Do you want to make journal editors happy? Then, it’s the right moment to come to our RPS seminar. Prof. Nadin from RPS chair will give us a presentation and share his experience during the seminar. The workshop will be based on some real...