The RSA EUROPEAN CONFERENCE 2012 took place at TU Delft between May 13th and 16th The theme of the conference, organised in partnership with the OTB Research Institute, was Networked regions and cities in times of fragmentation: Developing smart, sustainable and inclusive places. The Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy helped OTB organise the conference. The...
Rio Olympic Legacy: Missed opportunities This presentation was given at the 44th SCUPAD | Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning and Development The theme of this edition was “Frontpage Planning Before and After Major Events, Disasters, and Social Unrest” and Roberto Rocco was invited keynote speaker.44th Annual SCUPAD Congress May 3rd, 2012 in Salzburg, Austria. For...
A working paper of Suwanna Rongwiriyaphanich, a PhD candidate in RP&S, has just got nominated as one of the two highly recommended papers from AESOP Young Academics Meeting 2012 in Reading, UK. The paper title is ‘Effects of Land Policy on Hybrid Rural-Urban Development Patterns and Resilience: A case study of the territorial development in the Bangkok...
Creative Knowledge Cities: Myths, Visions and Realities, edited by Marina van Geenhuizen and Peter Nijkamp A new book on aspects of the creative city with contributions by Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado and Roberto Rocco has been launched. “This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools...
“Rick Vermeulen is an urban planner with a clear interest in metropolitan development. After obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in urban planning and a master in Metropolitan studies, both at the University of Amsterdam, he started a dual career combining both research and practice. Within the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) he has started as PhD candidate...
Spatial Planning TU Delft Boat Event, a set on Flickr. On Saturday 21 April, the Chair Spatial Planning and Strategy gathered for a social event. The Chair was invited by one of its members, Alexander Vollebregt, for a Spring celebration aboard his boat “Avontuur”, anchored on one of the renewed docks of Rotterdam, with the...
According to the organiser of this event, Bardia Mashhoodi,PhD candidate at TU Delft at the Chair of Urban Design, :”In the last few years, applying computer generated simulation models has become very fashionable in academic research in the fields of spatial planning and design. At the same time, the use of such models has come...
On 18, 25 april and 2 and 9 may Akkelies van Nes will run a space syntax workshop. If you like to attend, please send an email: to a.vannes@tudelft.nl
The students of the graduation studio Complex Cities (SPS) organised a day out in Amsterdam on March 7. The students and staff visited new developments around Amsterdam Central Station, including the newly inaugurated city library on Oosterdokseiland and the residential developements on Java-eiland. You can get more information about the library by clicking here and get to...
We are very proud to announce that a former student of SPS won this prestigious prize and we congratulate him! The prize is given every two years to the best master thesis in the field of transport planning in the Netherlands. Aart de Koning conducted research into a new public transport system for the harbour...
Students from the Spatial Planning programme of the University of the West of England in Bristol visited TU Delft in March 2012. The visit is part of the filed trip first-years make to the Netherlands in the course coordinated by Marcus Grant. This is the third time UWE students visit TU Delft. Students and teachers...
Supported by the Delft Infrastructures & Mobility Initiative (DIMI), the chair of Spatial Planning & Strategy conducted an inventory of Transport Oriented Development (TOD) strategies in the Netherlands, BESTNET. This research into current Dutch practices concluded that the TOD concept is embraced by policy makers in regions but that implementation is hampered by persistent governance,...
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...
Can Landscape Urbanism Help to Plan in ‘Territories-in-Between’ by Alexander Wandl, Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy Department of Urbanism TU Delft Europe is an urbanized continent. It is largely made of “middle landscapes”, or “hybrid geographies”. “Urban” areas can be found in rather rural landscapes (urban sprawl in major metropolis, large food processing...
‘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...
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Mar 27, 2012 • ICT-oriented Urban Planning Strategies: A Case Study of Taipei City, Taiwan (ID: 642570 DOI:10.1080/10630732.2011.642570) Journal: Journal of Urban Technology Estimated Publication date – 16 Apr 2012 (Online) Authors: Wei-Ju Huang (Astor) ABSTRACT With the development of wireless technology and its infrastructure networks, information and communication technologies have become widely and deeply embedded in our daily lives....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Tools for research in areas of design practice: problem finding. View more presentations from Roberto Rocco
Open publication - Free publishing - More participation 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 relevance and meaning...
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...
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Dec 4, 2011 • The Author Workshop was hold at TU Delft on 22 November 2011. The recorded presentation is available via the Collegerama TU link Author workshop TU Delft 20111122 View more presentations from amcversteeg
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 (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;...
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...
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...
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,...
