Upcoming lecture by Michael Neuman: The plan matters.
On Monday, the 23rd of September at 12.30, Michael Neuman will give a lecture with the title ‘Images of place in urban and regional planning’ at the Hugo Priemuszaal, OTB. His position is that the plan matters because the images of place that are contained in plans not only guide the planning process and the...
New Urban Languages: Re-Imaging the City after the knowledge-based turn
Roberto Rocco has presented a keynote speech at the International Conference “New Urban languages: Re-Imaging the City after the Knowledge-Based Turn” at the Politecnico di Milano. Rossella Salerno and Daniele Villa of the School of Architecture and Society of the Politecnico have organized a 3-day conference to discuss issues related to knowledge and communication and...
Vincent Nadin presents at the SPS Seminar Series: The weakness of technocratic and imperative forms of planning for water management in Europe
Vincent Nadin has presented a lecture titled “The weakness of technocratic and imperative forms of planning for water management in Europe. Are there alternatives?” In his lecture, Vincent has discussed the approach to implementing the EU Water Framework Directive, concentrated on technocratic river basin management plans and imperative land use zoning plans. The results have...
Integrating sustainability and spatial planning, by Roberto Rocco
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The Governance of Large Urban Projects. Sebastião Bhatt presents at the SPS Seminar series.
Sebastião M.F. Bhatt is a visiting PhD candidate/researcher at the chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy, TU Delft. His institution of origin is the I.C.S.-University of Lisbon and his topic of research is the governance of large-scale urban development projects. On February 21st, Sebastião presented the general lines of his inquiry in our SPS Seminar...
Wei-Ju Huang (Astor) in the SPS Seminar Series: Spatial Planning and Governance of Hi-Tech Spaces
On December 6, 2013 Wei-Ju (Astor) Huang, a PhD candidate at the chair of Spatial Planning Strategy presented preliminary results of her ongoing doctoral project on Spatial Planning and Governance in developing processes of high tech spaces. Astor is conducting a comparison between development strategies of high tech spaces in regions in the Netherlands (Eindhoven)...
The Great Planning Game
This is a game based on a paper by Karina Sehested from the UNiversity of Copenhagen. (SEHESTED, K. 2010. Urban Planners as Network Managers and Metagovernors, Planning Theory & Practice 10:2, 245-263). The aim of this game is to familiarize students with the different roles and combinations of roles they can play in network governance...
Territorial Governance
The 2nd meeting on OTB-Urbanism Joint Research Themes took place on November 21st at the Hugo Priemus zaal at the OTB. The aim of the meeting was to bring aspects of territorial governance that are addressed in ongoing research in both groups to the foreground. Roberto Rocco gave a general introduction on governance. In this...
Lecture Issues of Governance in Regional Planning
[issuu width=420 height=158 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=121122153313-add6dcb4df4641578fd9890f7232f464 name=issues_of_governance_in_regional_planning username=robertorocco tag=city-regions unit=px v=2] Issues of Governance in Regional Planning. This a lecture given at the seminar Regional Governance Planning and Design on November 21st at the OTB Research Institute. The lecture was prepared by Roberto Rocco. The seminar was organized by Professor Wil Zonneveld, Verena Balz and Roberto...
