BOOK A Manifesto for the Just City launched!
On Monday 29 MARCH at 18:00 (CET/Amsterdam), TU Delft launched the Book “A Manifesto for the Just City”, with texts by a number of guests and 43 manifestos written by students from 25 universities from all over the world. A “Manifesto for the Just City” comes in the wake of the realisation that socio-spatial justice...
The New Urban Normal: publication out
Our new publication *The New Urban Normal: Urban Sustainability and Resilience Post-COVID-19* is out and available for download from this LINK. This is the result of the online Urban Thinkers Campus with the same title organised by the Global Urban Laband the group of TU Delft Spatial Planning and Strategy in June 2020. This book was...
The Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanization, edited by Roberto Rocco and Jan van Ballegooijen has been finally published in paperback. This book was originally published in 2018 in hardcover but is now also available in paperback and digital form, making it accessible to a much wider audience. This book investigates the mutual relationship between the struggle...
Talking about Urban Resilience: What changes for cities? A call for reframing resilience in planning
This WEBINAR organised by Politecnico di Torino discussed the concept of resilience in relation to planning and to the system shocks of the COVID-19 pandemics, climate change and more. Roberto Rocco gave a lecture about the connections between urban resilience, social sustainability and justice. You can see Roberto’s presentation HERE 17:00 Introduction by Ombretta Caldarice...
Roberto Rocco speaks at the Universities Round Table at the World Urban Forum
Roberto Rocco was a keynote speaker at the Universities Round Table organised by the UN-Habitat UNI initiative. Background The World Urban Forum (WUF) offers an opportunity for institutions of higher learning to showcase examples of transformative educational and capacity building initiatives and technical assistance programmes implemented in partnership with city governments, NGOs and the private...
2020 / Igor Pessoa / Luz Maria Vergara / Rachael Keeton / Roberto Rocco / TU Delft / World Urban Forum
Training Event at the World Urban Forum, Abu Dhabi, TUE 11 FEB
Spatial Planning & Strategy, together with members of Urban Design, Urban Studies and Management in the Built Environment, is offering a training session at the upcoming World Urban Forum, in Abu Dhabi. The governance of slum upgrading strategies must incorporate socio-spatial justice to succeed. Justice is for the acceptability and sustainability of policy, what truth...
Handbook on Informal Urbanisation featured by Politecnico di Milano
Roberto Rocco’s and Jan van Ballegooijen’s book “The Routledge Book on Informal Urbanisation” is featured as “book of the month” at Politecnico di Milano’s library. 2020 will see the publication of the paperback version. For more information about the book, please visit ROUTLEDGE Books. Please follow and like us:
SPS participation at the World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi
SPS, represented by Roberto Rocco, will take part in several activities at the WUF: (i) Training event given in partnership with UN-Habitat Capacity Building Unit, in a team with Igor Pessoa, Rachel Keeton and Luz Maria Vergara: https://www.unhadb.org/2019_wuf10/user/trainDetails , (ii) Participation at the Universities Round Table, when Roberto Rocco will speak about the importance to...
Spatial Planning colleagues presented at the RSA Annual Conference in Lugano, 3-6 June 2018
Ana María Fernández-Maldonado, Marcin Dąbrowski and Roberto Rocco, together with Marjolein Spaans from OTB, presented the results of the COHESIFY project (www.cohesify.eu/) entitled ‘Linking Cohesion Policy and Citizens’ Identification with the EU in Regions: Between Opportunism and Euroscepticism in the Netherlands’. Beyond reporting COHESIFY results, Marcin Dąbrowski also presented his on-going work on the regional...
Rethink the City MOOC receives honourable mention
A TUDelft MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) has received an honourable mention in the 2018 Open Education Awards. The Open Education Awards are awarded annually by the Open Education Consortium, dedicated to improving educational access and effectiveness worldwide. All nominations are judged in different categories by an international committee. The MOOC, entitled ‘Rethink the City:...
Roberto Rocco is made member of the editorial board of the two main research journals on spatial planning and city development in Brazil
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...
Roberto Rocco in Doctoral Defence Committee at University of Sevilla
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...
