New book chapters on planning policy transfer
A new book entitled “Knowledge, Policymaking and Learning for European Cities and Regions From Research to Practice” has been published by Edward Elgar. The book, edited by Nicola Francesco Dotti, provides theories, experiences, reflections and future directions for social scientists engaged with policy-oriented research in cities and regions. Dominic Stead has co-authored two of the book’s chapters: Chapter 4:...
Randstad Research Seminar Series #12: Advances in Doctoral Research: Marta Relats and Els Leclercq
Randstad Research Seminar Series #12: Advances in Doctoral Research: Marta Relats and Els Leclercq Date and time: Friday DEC 12 from 12h30 to 14h00 Location: Anneke van Cootenzaal (OTB, ground floor) Speakers: Marta Relats Torante and Els Leclercq Els Leclercq and Marta Relats Torante are PhD candidates at the Design and Politics chair of the Urbanism...
Dorina Pojani practices what she preaches: featured article on TU Delft Campus newspaper
This month, Dorina Pojani, post-doc researcher of the Chair Spatial Planning and Strategy/OTB, was featured on the pages of the TU Delft on campus newspaper DELTA. The newspaper publishes profiles of staff and students using well-humoured descriptions their bikes as leverage. Dorina Pojani is a postdoctoral fellow in the Spatial Planning and Strategy group of...
Article by postdoctoral fellow Dorina Pojani published in Housing Studies.
An article on informal settlements in Albania by SPS postdoctoral fellow Dorina Pojani was published in Housing Studies in January. Here is the abstract of the paper: “This paper recounts the successful upgrading of Bathore, an informal settlement on government land, located in the outskirts of Tirana, the capital of Albania. Bathore was formed in the early 1990s by...
Dorina Pojani guest speaker at 1st Conference on Urban Mobility and Management in Albania
On October 5-6, Dorina Pojani was a guest speaker at the 1st Conference on Urban Mobility Management in Albania. She discussed current traffic problems in the city of Tirana, and described the experience of Dutch cities with bike planning and car traffic management. She also presented a poster, which was conceived as a test on sustainable transport...
