Article by Yaqi Wang, Rodrigo Cardoso and Claudiu Forgaci on Urban Pandemic Vulnerability
Former Urbanism master student Yaqi Wang, together with her mentors Rodrigo Cardoso and Claudiu Forgaci, has turned her graduation thesis into a research paper, now published in a special issue of Sustainability. In this research, Yaqi, Rodrigo and Claudiu propose a new definition of ‘urban pandemic vulnerability’ to understand how pandemics affect cities and how...
New article by Rodrigo Cardoso on secondary city demography in UK city-regions
Is it possible to trace meaningful distinctions between small and medium-sized cities based only on their population profile? What is the relevance of population composition compared to population size and growth, and how do these cities differ among each other and from core cities in a context of demographic redistribution and socioeconomic imbalances in UK...
SPS Seminar – Peri-urban China: Spatial Governance and Traditional Culture
Thursday 30 June 2022, 12.30-13.45 (on campus and online) Please register HERE. In this seminar, Yaqi Yan (Tsinghua University) and Diwen Tan (TU Delft) present the spatial transformation of peri-urban areas in China in different regions and from perspectives. One case from northern China focuses on local governance; the other from southern China focuses on...
Online exhibition R&D studio Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis
Online exhibition R&D studio Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis (AR2U086 & AR2U088), part of MSc Urbanism, Delft University of Technology, organised by Verena Balz and Qu Lei. We proudly present results of the Research & Design studio Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis, part of the MSc Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences/Track Urbanism...
New article by Gregory Bracken on Modernism and Creativity in the Built Environment
Asian Independence: Notes on Modernism and Creativity in the Built Environment’ is in the Journal of Urban History https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00961442221084718 Please follow and like us:
New article by Luiz Carvalho: Urban Analytics and City Science: Understanding the ramifications of segregation in the urban form in Brazilian cities
New article in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science: understanding the ramifications of segregation in the urban form in Brazilian cities. A new article published as part of the PhD research of Luiz Carvalho Filho has been published in Environment and Planning B. The paper is available HERE. The paper was developed...
Complexity for Urbanism & Spatial Planning: lecture by Sharon Wohl (Iowa State University)
This two-part Seminar offers an introduction to principles of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) and their relevance for the built environment. Complex Adaptive System theory is the approach used to explain a vast array of systems that involve interacting agents – ants in a colony, cells in an organism, or birds in a flock. These systems...
Conference in Breda, a text by Andreas Faludi
Shortly after ‘The Poverty of Territorialism’ (Faludi 2018) had come out, I was invited to a conference at Sobot in Poland on Maritime Spatial Planning. (See: https://www.spatialplanningtudelftarchive.org/2020/sopot/) Upon which I was asked to publish on ‘New horizons: Beyond Territorialism’ in EUROPA XXI, a journal published by the Polish Academy of Science. (Vol. 36, 2019, pp. 35-44; http://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2019.36.3)...
SPS Seminar: Cross-fertilization between Spatial Planning and Cohesion Policy in Portugal
When: Wednesday 9 March, 12.30-13.30 Where: on campus and online, via Zoom Prior registration needed here. Please join us for the next SPS Seminar on Wednesday 9 March 12.30-13.30 CET (on campus & online). This time we welcome visiting research fellow Dr Cristina Cavaco, from the University of Lisbon. Cristina is an Associate Professor at...
Announcing Chasing Territorialism: a new book by Andreas Faludi
Followers of this blog might wonder why I seem to have dropped out of sight. Well, in a way I have, but for reasons having to do with this blog. Some time ago, a close colleague at the Department of Urbanism at TU Delft, Roberto Rocco, had proposed to collect the blogs into an Ebook...
Online SPS Seminar: Time Travel project TU Delft & HafenCity University Hamburg
When: Tuesday 1 March 2022, 12.30-13.30 Where: Online, via Zoom Prior registration needed here. Please join us for the next SPS Seminar on Tuesday 1 March 12.30-13.30 CET (online). This time we welcome Lukas Höller (SPS Urbanism, TU Delft), Dirk Schubert (HafenCity University Hamburg), and Christoph Lofi & Lixia Chu (EWI Computer Science, TU Delft),...
