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...
The Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanization
PUBLISHED! The Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanisation edited by Roberto Rocco and Jan van Ballegooijen is out. This handbook explores 25 cases in 24 cities around the world where informal urbanisation has played a pivotal role in how people have struggled for their right to the city and for their ‘right to rights’ as citizens. It...
2018 / heritage / publication / Urban Cultures / urban design / Urban development / Urbanism / Vincent Nadin
Join the PICH Planning and Heritage Final Conference
Future conservation of the historic environment in Europe will be shaped by neoliberal inspired reforms of urban planning systems, but in uncertain ways. Just how is the subjectd of the PICH Final Conference that will be held at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology on Thursday 12 April. The...
2017 / planning / SCUT / SCUT urban systems and environment / urban design / Urban development / Urbanism / Vincent Nadin
Guangzhou International Design Forum 2017.
The 2017 Guangzhou International Design Forum took the ‘design-driven city’ as its theme with the aim to create a platform for conversation between government, society, and experts in China and abroad. It is intended to help Guangzhou explore the direction for the next round of urban development. Vincent Nadin represented TU Delft with presentations to...
Dominic Stead co-chairs next AESOP track Gothenburg 2018
Dominic Stead, together with Lukas Smas from Stockholm University and Anais De Keijser from the Technical University of Darmstadt, will be a track co-chair at next year’s annual congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP). There will be sixteen tracks at next year’s AESOP congress and Dominic will be responsible for the...
Climate Change / Climate change adaptation / Extreme weather / Flooding / planning / Urban development
SPS Seminar 14 September, 12:00: Flooding in Houston and the PRD: planning as a problem or solution?
Who: Nikki Brand, Marcin Dąbrowski, Meng Meng When: 14 September, 12:00 – 13:00 Where: BG West 270, BK, TU Delft With this seminar, we would like to take stock of the impacts of the recent extreme weather events in Houston, Texas, ravaged by hurricane Harvey, and in the Pearl River Delta cities in South China,...
2017 / Climate Change / Climate change adaptation / Governance / Urban development / urban models / Urbanism
Houston’s Floods and Urban and Regional Planning
Houston is currently on the news. Contrary to what many people think, Houston does have planning, although it does not have conventional zoning as all other big cities in the United States. According to an article in UrbanLand.com: “Other legal and governance mechanisms have evolved, including deed restrictions and historic designations that allow homeowners...
Ivan Thung: Challenges for Implementing the New Urban Agenda: THU 2 FEB 12h30
Thursday 2 February at 12:30–13:30 Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment TU Delft Julianalaan 134, 2628 BL Delft ROOM 01WEST620 Ivan Thung, former consultant at UN-Habitat HQ in Nairobi will describe how the agency is addressing some of the enduring urban challenges in the global south> he will give an account of the UN-Habitat’s Urban Planning...
2017 / Climate Change / Climate change adaptation / Summer School / urban design / Urban development / Urbanism
2017 Summer School ‘Planning and Design with Water’ applications now OPEN
Hey folks! Applications for the 2017 Summer School “Planning and Design with Water” are now OPEN! This Summer School introduces students from all over the world to the Dutch tradition of urban and regional planning and design with water for sustainable healthy and far cities. The school is very dynamic, with practical workshops, lectures, site...
SPS Seminar: Climate change vulnerability and the urban poor, with Hanne van den Berg, JAN 12, 2017, 12h30 BK
Climate change vulnerability and the urban poor: Achieving climate justice through urban resilience strategies A seminar by Hanne van den Berg, MSc MA “Even though climate change has an impact on most city dwellers, the urban poor are affected disproportionately as poverty remains a key contributing factor in vulnerability. This is due for instance to the...
Special SPS Seminar 15 December – The Chinese Urban Transformation, with Yanliu Lin, Yawei Chen and Qu Lei
Special edition of SPS Seminar on the Chinese Urban Transformation was organised on Thursday 15 December. It included presentations from three speakers: Yanliu Lin (University of Utrecht); Yawei Chen (TUD, MBE, BK); Lei Qu (TUD, Urbanism, BK). While adopting different perspectives and focusing on different cities (Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen), the three speakers shared a common focus on new...
Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning and Development ( SCUPAD) Call for papers and contributions from practice
Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning and Development ( SCUPAD): DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED! Call for papers and contributions from practice SCUPAD Congress- May 11-14, 2017, Salzburg, Austria Congress Topic “Displacement: Our World in Motion” Urban and regional policies, projects and actions concerning migration, displacement and refuge. Deadline for submission of short abstracts: JAN 30, 2017....
