![SPS Seminar: Cross-fertilization between Spatial Planning and Cohesion Policy in Portugal SPS Seminar: Cross-fertilization between Spatial Planning and Cohesion Policy in Portugal](https://www.spatialplanningtudelftarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CristinaCavaco_poster-290x290.jpg)
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...
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RSA policy expo grant won – Going circular: unlocking the potential of regions and cities to drive the circular economy transition
Marcin Dąbrowski, together with a team of co-applicants including Karel van den Berghe, Ellen van Bueren (MBE, BK, TUD), and Joanna Williams (UCL), won a Policy Expo grant from the Regional Studies Association. The project is entitled “Going circular: unlocking the potential of regions and cities to drive the circular economy transition”. The project will...
![ESPON policy brief ‘Cross-fertilisation of cohesion policy and spatial planning’ published! ESPON policy brief ‘Cross-fertilisation of cohesion policy and spatial planning’ published!](https://www.spatialplanningtudelftarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Figure_9_Menu_of_steps_and_actions_blog-scaled.jpg)
ESPON policy brief ‘Cross-fertilisation of cohesion policy and spatial planning’ published!
The ESPON policy brief ‘Cross-fertilisation of cohesion policy and spatial planning’, prepared by a team of researchers at SP&S, European Policies Research Centre (EPRC), and Czech University of Life Science, has just been published. It is incumbent on governments at all levels to ensure that cohesion policy is efficient and helps deliver territorial cohesion. Spatial...
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New paper – Circling the square: governance of the circular economy transition in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area
New paper, co-authored by Marcin Dąbrowski and Erwin Heurkens (Management in the Built Environment, Bouwkunde, TU Delft) is out in Open Access format, published in European Spatial Research and Policy. The paper uses the case of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area to explore and classify the barriers for managing transitions towards circular economy in that urban...
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New ESPON project – Interregional relations in Europe
A new ESPON research project, “Interregional relations in Europe” (IRiE) launched last week. Dominic Stead and Rodrigo Cardoso, from SP&S, represent TU Delft in a consortium led by Nasuvinsa, from the Government of Navarra. Other partners include the Centre for Economic Prediction – CEPREDE (Spain), University of Eastern Finland (Finland), S&W Urban and Regional Research...
![What we talk about when we talk about second cities What we talk about when we talk about second cities](https://www.spatialplanningtudelftarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Rodrigo-Cardoso-SPS-poster-290x290.jpg)
What we talk about when we talk about second cities
When we talk about urban regions, we often talk about a large core city – a Greater London, Paris, Manchester or Somewhere – surrounded by a rather indistinct hinterland of small and medium-sized secondary cities, which don’t differ much other than being closer to or further away from the core. In Europe, made of a...
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TU Delft is now ranked number 1 in the world in urban planning
We are pleased to announce that TU Delft has moved to first place from second for ‘Urban Planning’ in the University Rankings of Academic Performance. See https://www.urapcenter.org/Rankings/2018-2019/Urban%20Planning This is not only the performance of SPS section in Urbanism, but of other groups across TU Delft working on issues related to urban planning. Together we create...
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SPS Seminar on 18 April 2019: Carlos Mendez – EU Cohesion Policy and the Public Sphere: Connecting Locally with Citizens?
Carlos Mendez is a Senior Research Fellow at the EPRC, University of Strathclyde, which also has a base at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of TU Delft (EPRC Delft). He has degrees from the University College London (BA), London School of Economics (MSc) and Strathclyde (PhD). As a specialist on the European...
![Province’s added value in territorial development, by Guus van Steenbergen Province’s added value in territorial development, by Guus van Steenbergen](https://www.spatialplanningtudelftarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Guus-290x290.jpg)
Province’s added value in territorial development, by Guus van Steenbergen
Province’s added value in territorial development Text by Guus van Steenbergen PhD Candidate Spatial Planning and Strategy, Urbanism, TU Delft A.A.C.vanSteenbergen@tudelft.nl My PhD project at TU Delft/Architecture and Built Environment is entering a next phase. A committee that evaluates quality and progress – and gives the GO / NO GO – said that I can...
![Roudtable: Redefining planning in Northern Europe Roudtable: Redefining planning in Northern Europe](https://www.spatialplanningtudelftarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/DSC_0164-290x290.jpg)
Roudtable: Redefining planning in Northern Europe
Dominic Stead contributed to the roundtable discussion on redefining planning in Northern Europe at this year’s Nordic Planning Research Symposium (Plannord) in Helsinki. Together with Daniel Galland (Norwegian University of Life Sciences), Lukas Smas (Nordregio), Raine Mäntysalo (Aalto University) and Frank Othengrafen (Leibniz Universität Hannover), he highlighted some of the ways in which contemporary planning...
![The institutional context and the ability to adapt to the growing flood risk in cities The institutional context and the ability to adapt to the growing flood risk in cities](https://www.spatialplanningtudelftarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/DBZ0ES6W0AAfqkg-1-290x290.jpg)
The institutional context and the ability to adapt to the growing flood risk in cities
How do the features of national or regional governance systems affect the ability of cities to prepare for flooding that climate change will bring? This is the issue addressed in a new paper by Marcin Dąbrowski, just published in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. It focuses on the Rotterdam / The Hague region and...
![Research has shown… Research has shown…](https://www.spatialplanningtudelftarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/white-290x290.jpg)
Research has shown…
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