![Azadeh Mashayekhi and Nurul Azlan , at the SPS Seminar series on Tuesday 27 JANUARY Azadeh Mashayekhi and Nurul Azlan , at the SPS Seminar series on Tuesday 27 JANUARY](https://www.spatialplanningtudelftarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/poster-sps-azadeh-nurul-290x290.jpeg)
Azadeh Mashayekhi and Nurul Azlan , at the SPS Seminar series on Tuesday 27 JANUARY
Azadeh Mashayekhi and Nurul Azlan presented their PhD reserach on Tuesday 27 JANUARY at a SPS Seminar. Below, the abstracts of the presentations: Azadeh Mashayekhi Dreaming of American City: Iranian consumer project of modernity Abstract: All through twentieth century Iranian cities have undergone processes of modernization in successive political regimes that have left their traces in the physical...
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Comparing Apples and Oranges: international comparative planning
Interest in international comparisons of the performance and planning of cities and regions has never been higher, though much international comparison raises as many questions as it answers. Are we comparing apples and oranges? Stuttgart and Dortmund Universities organised a colloquium under this banner, asking how we do we manage the great challenges...
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Qu Lei discusses Chinese Urban Villages at the SPS Seminar Series
Qu Lei presented her work on urban villages in Shenzhen at a SPS Seminar on 15 January 2015. ‘Urban villages and affordable housing within the transitional period of Chinese cities: the case study of Shenzhen’ Abstract: Urban village is a very special type of neighbourhood, created in the fast urbanisation process in Chinese cities like Shenzhen in...
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2014 / Developing countries / Development / Development studies / Guests / RPS / Seminar / Uncategorized
SPS Seminar: Hongyuan Yang – Major spatial planning concerns in China
Speaker:Dr. Hongyuan Wang, China Academy of Urban Planning and Design (our guest researcher – Urban Knowledge Network Asia fellow) Title: Major concerns and instruments of spatial planning practices in China Abstract: China is a fast developing country facing many challenges. Spatial planning plays a major role in solving these problems in China. This presentation focuses on the following questions:...
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NCKU / Partnerships / RPS / SCUT / Summer School / Taiwan / Taiwan partnership / Uncategorized / Visiting students
Summer School Planning and Design with Water
Thirty-two Chinese and Taiwanese students have completed the programme of the 1st Summer School Planning and Design with Water, organised by the Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy (Vincent Nadin and Roberto Rocco) in partnership with the chair of Environmental Technology & Design of the TU Delft (Fransje Hooimeijer) and the Department of Urban Planning of...
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New Urban Languages Conference 2nd edition with TU Delft participation
The New Urban Languages Conference is organised by the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies DAStU of the Politecnico di Milano, the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura ETSA of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and now also by the Group of Spatial Planning and Strategy of the Delft University of Technology. The theme of the second edition of the conference was Re-thinking...
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Book / Dominic Stead / Europe / planning / publication / Research / RPS / sps / Uncategorized / Vincent Nadin / wil zonneveld
Spatial Planning Systems and Practices in Europe
SPS members have contributed two chapters to the book Spatial Planning Systems and Practices in Europe, published in April 2014. Vincent Nadin and Dominic Stead wrote the chapter ‘Spatial Planning in the United Kingdom 1990-2013’, and Wil Zonneveld and David Evers wrote the chapter ‘Dutch National Spatial Planning at the End of an Era’....
![Brenda Hunt, Area manager of the Eastern Docklands of Amsterdam, at the SPS Seminar Series Brenda Hunt, Area manager of the Eastern Docklands of Amsterdam, at the SPS Seminar Series](https://www.spatialplanningtudelftarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/DSCN0102-e1395158951544-290x290.jpg)
Brenda Hunt, Area manager of the Eastern Docklands of Amsterdam, at the SPS Seminar Series
Brenda Hunt is Area manager (Gebiedsmanager) for the Oostelijk Havengebied and the Science Park of Amsterdam (District Oost). Brenda, together with colleague Peter Groenendaal, joined the SPS Seminar on February 20 2014 to talk about the activity of area manager, as conceived by the municipality of Amsterdam. As area manager, Brenda is responsible for the areas...
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Randstad Seminar: Urban farming in city regions: a relevant topic for spatial planning and design?
Urbanism Randstad Research Programme Regional Governance, Planning and Design Research Cluster Research Seminar: March 20th, from 15:00-17:00 at OTB, TU Delft, Hugo Priemus Zaal TOPIC: Urban farming in city regions: a relevant topic for spatial planning and design? Urban farming has received a lot of attention in the last few years. For many, food production...
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Professor Maarten van Ham at the SPS Seminar Series
Professor van Ham talked about “New directions for residential mobility research: Linking lives through time and space”, a work he has developed in partnership with Rory Coulter and Allan Findlay. Van Ham argues that there is increasing attention to international migration, but less interest in short distance migration and immobility. According to van Ham, “Most...
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Taiwan National Carrying Capacity Research
Spatial Planning at TU Delft is involved in a Taiwan national research project on carrying capacity of the territory and population size. The project is examining possible optimum city size in relation to the carrying capacity of the built and natural environment and indicators that can be used to assess these relationships. At the project’s third...
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2013 / Alex Wandl / Asia / Complex Cities / Conferences / Development / Governance / planning / Research / RPS / sps / Staff / Urbanism / Vincent Nadin
Melbourne Peri-urban conference
Spatial planning at TU Delft made a major contribution to Beyond the Edge: the first Australian peri-urban conference in Melbourne, organised jointly by La Trobe University and RMIT. Alex Wandl gave a paper based on his PhD project on ‘territories-in-between’ and Vincent Nadin gave the first keynote presentation on Peri-urbanism in Europe (co-authored...