The latest report of the English PEN, the founding centre of the PEN International – an organisation promotes freedom of expression and literature across frontiers – , is about Turkey. The report is entitled Turkey: freedom of expression in jeopardy. Violations of the rights of authors, publishers and academics under the State of Emergency and written...
SPS Seminar 24 March 2018 12:00-13:00 BG West 290, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft Speaker: Victor Muñoz Sanz (TU Delft) Automated Landscapes: Planning and Technology in the Port of Rotterdam The increasing use of robotization and computer algorithms in industrial processes seem to indicate that we are heading to a future of workspaces without...
Future conservation of the historic environment in Europe will be shaped by neoliberal inspired reforms of urban planning systems, but in uncertain ways. Just how is the subjectd of the PICH Final Conference that will be held at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology on Thursday 12 April. The...
Marcin Dąbrowski’s new paper on flood risk management (FRM) in coastal Asian cities is about to be published in Journal of Cleaner Production. It was written is collaboration with colleagues from Nottingham Ningbo University and University of Leeds (F. Chan – lead author), National University of Singapore (C.C. Joon and A. Ziegler) and Aalto University (O. Varis). ...
Text by Roberto Rocco: In March 2018, I set up an exhibition on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the TU Delft. A few days later, SDG 8 “Decent Work and Economic Growth” was defaced. There is no way to know who did this,...
‘Cork Strolls’, written by brother-and-sister team Gregory and Audrey Bracken has just been published. A guide to Cork’s architecture, it is the follow-up to their bestselling ‘Dublin Strolls’ (The Collins Press, 2016).
New paper by Marcin Dąbrowski, Ida Musiałkowska (Poznań University of Economics) and Laura Polverari (EPRC, University of Strathclyde) on the transfer of regional policy from the EU to China and to Brazil has just been published online in Regional Studies. The paper investigates the European Union (EU)–Brazil and EU–China regional policy dialogues, viewed as vectors...
This is a report on the side event organised by TU Delft at the World Urban Forum in FEB 2018 in Kuala Lumpur. In this event, we presented the results of the Urban Thinkers Campus organised in 2017 at TU Delft on the topic of incorporating the New Urban Agenda in higher education curriculums. An...
The Department of Urbanism and the Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy took an active role the organisation of the Preparatory Conference African Perspectives on Urbanisation, which took place between 25 and 27 January 2018 in Addis Ababa. This conference was jointly organised by TU Delft and EiABC (the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction...
Roberto Rocco has been recently made member of the editorial board of two peer-reviewed journals of spatial planning in Brazil. The Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais (Brazilian Review of Urban and Regional Studies) is connected to ANPUR, the National Association of Post Graduate Studies and Research on Urban and Regional Planning (long name!). ANPUR...
Sustainable Development Goals: WHAT’S YOUR GOAL? The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 global goals set by 193 United Nations members states in 2013 with the objective to guide sustainable development in the next 15 years. The SDGs cover a broad range of social and economic development issues and are part of the...
The University of Cyprus, Department of Architecture invites you to the annual meeting of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)’s Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures, which will take place in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Nicosia in the period between 16th and 18th May 2018. This meeting is organised in...
SPS Seminar Speaker: Prof. Dag Kitang Topic: Urban development and the conflict modernisation and renewal Time and place: Tuesday 13 March 2018, 12:30-13:30, BG West 640, BK, TU Delft Dag Kittang is a professor in urban conservation and planning at the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He...
Speaker: Esther González-González, University of Cantabria Topic: Autonomous vehicles & the city of tomorrow Room: OO West 64 Date: Tuesday 6 March, 12:30-13:30 Abstract: Automated Vehicles (AV) would undoubtedly have a great and significant impact on urban mobility, urbanisation patterns and the quality and use of urban space within the next 30-50 years. A key question...
Text by Roberto Rocco 22.000 people took part in the World Urban Forum 9 in Kuala Lumpur, + more or less 4.000 support staff. 48% of these people were women. I don’t know how many were from the Global South, but certainly more than 50%. The great topic of this WUF was implementation of the...
Dag Kittang is a professor in urban conservation and planning at the Faculty of Architecture and Design at. He has a master in architecture and defended his doctoral dissertation on “The wooden town of Trondheim – modernisation or conservation” in 2006. He is doing research on the topic architectural and urban conservation and together with The...
You are warmly invited, dear SPS blog guest, to the forthcoming Spatial Planning & Strategy Seminar on Thursday 8 February 2018 from 12:00 to 13:00. The speaker will be Cinco Hsinko Yu (TU Delft). He will present his on-going research on participatory planning and urban vitality in a context of urban regeneration in Taipei, Taiwan. The...
The Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy has a new guest – Esther González-González from the University of Cantabria. Esther came to TU Delft to work, among others, with Dominic Stead on automated vehicles and planning. She will present her research as part of the SPS Seminar Series on 6 March 2018, so stay tuned...
Verena Balz and Qu Lei are responsible for Quarter 3 in the Urbanism Masters track at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the TU Delft. This quarter is about regional planning and design. This is the booklet that explains the methods and objectives of the quarter. Roberto Rocco and Marcin Dabrowski are...
I am delighted to be able to report that this book project, on which I have reported before has been accepted. All being well it will come out before the end of this year with Edgar Elgar, a publisher in the United Kingdom. The title refers to my concern about territorialism encapsulating all of us...
A Twitter chat series in the framework of #TheCityWeNeed action campaign A World Urban Campaign (@urbancampaign) Twitter chat with gender expert Roberto Rocco (@RobertoRocco) from TU DELFT (@TUDELFT) Tuesday, 30 January 2018 2-3pm (Nairobi time, GMT+3) Background A Twitter chat is a public discussion on Twitter around a specific hashtag (for example, #TheCityWeNeed)....
Lidewij Tummers will be presenting at the Sharing cities – Shaping cities 2018 conference, organised by the Politechnico di Milano on 5+6 March 2018. The proposal “Low-carbon local initiative meets regional climate change policies: How to create effective synergies between local and regional agents of change?” was retained at an acceptance rate of about 20%...
Gregory Bracken’s ‘Bangkok: A Walking Tour’ and ‘London: A Walking Tour’ have just been translated into Polish.
Between 11-1-2018 and 23-1-2018 Complex cities graduation students present their thesis plans and preliminary research during the second assessment of their graduation projects. For the program and brief descriptions of their graduation topics, please see announcements on our dedicated complex cities website. An overview is provided here. Presentations can be attended. We invite all who have an...
Complex cities graduation student Kseniya Otmakhova was granted the prestiguous Schwarzman Scholarship in December. With an advisory board consisting of people like former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and former American Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, this scholarship aims to educate future world leaders. For her reflection on the award, please see here We...
From the group of Spatial Planning and Strategy of the TU Delft, we wish you a very happy and prosperous new year!
The Routledge Handbook of Planning History edited by the great Professor Carola Hein, Chair History of Architecture and Urban Planning at TU Delft, is out, folks! @TUDelft @BKTUDelft @TUDelftGlobal You can see details of the book HERE “The Routledge Handbook of Planning History offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of planning history since its emergence in...
Gregory Bracken gave the keynote address at ‘Urban Living and Multicultural Cities in Asia: From Colonial Past to Global Future’, a conference held at the Faculty of Psychology Unika Atma Jaya University, Jakarta on 8-9 November 2017. His paper was entitled ‘Asian Cities: Colonial to Global’, and made reference to the book he edited with...
The 10th IFoU conference ‘The Entrepreneurial City’ was held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on 14-16 December 2017, and was attended by TU Delft staff and alumni, turning it into a very pleasant reunion for those who had studied Urbanism. Congratulations to Qu Lei whose paper on urban regeneration in China won...
Roberto Rocco was invited by the University of Sevilla to integrate the Doctoral Defence committee of Irene Luque Martin, who defended a thesis titled “Descodificando la Planificación Urbana Contemporánea: Hacia una alternativa metodológica para una planificación colaborativa” on the positive integration of GIS and other planning supporting systems to participatory planning. The thesis was defended...
