The seminars are informal professional or academic presentations by guests or by people from the TU Delft’s Department of Urbanism and beyond. These presentations are followed by discussions and offer the presenters an opportunity to gather feedback. The seminars are open and the participation of staff and students from across TU Delft is welcome. If you are willing to present your work or have any questions concerning the seminar series please contact Roberto Rocco and Marcin Dąbrowski.
This is the complete list of seminars organised since 2013:
SPS Seminars Title | Speaker | Date |
1. The Governance of Large Urban Projects | Sebastiao Bhatt | 04/03/2013 |
2. Suwanna Rongwiriyaphanich presents advancements in her PhD research at the RSP Seminar Series | Suwanna Rongwiriyaphanich | 23/03/2013 |
3. Alexander Wandl presents at the SPS Seminar | Alexander Wandl | 28/03/2013 |
4. Urbanisation, infrastructure development and public transport use | Dena Kasraian | 11/04/2013 |
5. Professor Mariana Fix of the University of Campinas presents at the TU Delft | Mariana Fix | 19/04/2013 |
6. Housing in Ecuador: Meet the Developers | ECO&ARQUITECTOS | 07/05/2013 |
7. Vincent Nadin presents at the SPS Seminar Series: The weakness of technocratic and imperative forms of planning for water management in Europe | Vincent Nadin | 17/05/2013 |
8. Taneha Bacchin presents at the SPS SEMINAR SERIES on NOV 14 | Taneha Bacchin | 14/11/2013 |
9. Annalisa Lodigiani presents at the SPS Seminar series | Annalisa Lodigiani | 22/11/2013 |
10. Professor Maarten van Ham at the SPS Seminar Series | Maarten van Ham | 28/11/2013 |
11. Yu Ye gives a talk at the SPS Seminar Series | Yu Ye | 09/12/2013 |
12. Brenda Hunt, Area manager of the Eastern Docklands of Amsterdam, at the SPS Seminar Series | Brenda Hunt | 20/02/2014 |
13. Randstad Seminar: Urban farming in city regions: a relevant topic for spatial planning and design? | Dr. Herman Lelieveldt,Prof. dr. Arnold van der Valk, | 20/03/2014 |
14. Jorge Gil at the SPS Seminar Series | Jorge Gil | 28/03/2014 |
15. Major spatial planning concerns in China | Hongyuan Yang | 23/10/2014 |
16. Randstad Research Seminar Series #12: Advances in Doctoral Research | Marta Relats and Els Leclercq | 12/12/2014 |
17. Chinese Urban Villages | Qu Lei | 15/01/2015 |
18. Azadeh Mashayekhi and Nurul Azlan , at the SPS Seminar series on Tuesday 27 JANUARY | Azadeh Mashayekhi | 27/01/2015 |
19. Sex and the City: Why planning for climate change needs is a gender issue | Susan Buckingham | 05/02/2015 |
20. Thinking Politics, Scale and Community in Shenzhen | Stephen Read | 12/02/2015 |
21. Regional design as a communicative planning practice | Agnes Forster | 19/02/2015 |
22. Associate Professor of Community and Regional Planning, | Monica Haddad (Iowa State University ) | 26/03/2015 |
23. Randstad Seminar: The Spatial implications of Energy Transition | SPS, several speakers | 31/03/2015 |
24. ‘Global science scapes: how global science and political flows are shaping 21st century science landscapes | Paul Benneworth | 23/04/2015 |
25. Planning a global network of industrial communities: The architecture and urbanism of the Bata Shoe Company industrial satellite cities | Victor Sanz | 12/05/2015 |
26. Urban Transformation in Rio de Janeiro | Guilherme Lassance (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) | 21/05/2015 |
27. The Rise of Sharing: Commodity vs. Experience | Christopher Choa, head of urban development at AECOM | 02/06/2015 |
28. Evert Meijers: “Good fences make good neighbour cities? SPS Seminar, June 4 | Evert Meijers | 04/06/2015 |
29. The Patchwork Metropolis | Carlo Pisano (University of Cagliari) | 11/06/2015 |
30. REVERSE LAND: Wasted Landscapes as a resource to re-cycle contemporary cities | Libera Amenta | 18/06/2015 |
31. Blue blood of cities? Water and urbanism in India | Ashwani Kumar (CEPT) | 02/07/2015 |
32. Planning in Norway. Past-present-future challenges | Akkelies van Nes | 10/09/2015 |
33. Financing plans and projects with land value | Carlos Morales (IHS) | 18/09/2015 |
34. The European Union and Spatial Planning | Jan Vogelij | 01/10/2015 |
35. Liveable Cities. Case Study: Masshad, Iran | Mohammad Ghanbari | 05/11/2015 |
36. Communication for Urban Transformations | Kasia Piskorek | 10/12/2015 |
37. Present and Past of Urban Agriculture/Gardening in Germany – in a Nutshell | Evelyn Gusted (*ARL Hannover) | 07/01/2016 |
38. “Cities as Infrastructures of Diversity” | Stephen Read | 14/01/2016 |
39. CROSSRAIL, the tunnel join London East and West | Micheal Hebbert (BARTLETT UCL) | 28/01/2016 |
40. Urban Heterotopias | Ilgi Toprak | 18/02/2016 |
41. Urban Rhythms and Continuity of Place Meanings | Nasibe Charbgoo | 03/03/2016 |
42. The Squatted New Town: Modernism meets informality | Simone Rots | 31/03/2016 |
43. Strategic Urban Projects and the current urban paradigms. A study case of the Zaragoza | Andres Fernandes Ges | 21/04/2016 |
44. Regional design in planning theory and practice | Verena Balz + Valeria Lingua | 07/06/2016 |
45. Pieter van der Kooij – Green City Freiburg’s Challenge | Pieter van der Kooij | 20/06/2016 |
46. The Shanghai Alleyway House | Gregory Bracken | 22/09/2016 |
47. ‘Ecological infrastructure and sponge city construction in China’ | Li Dihua | 01/11/2016 |
48. The future of EU cohesion policy: what is at stake for European regions and cities? | John Bachter | 11/11/2016 |
49. Habitat III Report: What happened in Quito? | Ana Maria/ Roberto Rocco | 29/11/2016 |
50. The Chinese Urban Transformation | Yawei Chen/ Qu Lei/ Yanliu Lin | 15/12/2016 |
51. Climate change vulnerability and the urban poor | Hanne van den Berg | 12/01/2017 |
52. IMPLEMENTING THE NEW URBAN planning AGENDA | Frank D’hondt | 17/01/2017 |
53. Challenges for Implementing the New Urban Agenda | Ivan Thung (UN-Habitat) | 02/02/2017 |
54. ‘Co-housing and the Circular City’ | Lidewij Tummers | 23/02/2017 |
55. Digital Community Planning: The Open Source Way to the Top of Arnstein’s Ladder | Enzo Falco | 16/03/2017 |
56. Seminar and Book Presentation: “Starchitecture: Scenes, Actors and Spectacles in Contemporary Cities” | Davide Ponzini | 22/03/2017 |
57. Post-Conflict Planning – Continue the discussion! | Ivan Thung/ Hashmet Nejat | 27/03/2017 |
58. ‘Participatory City Making: How to Innovate Urban Public Services’ | Emma Puerari | 30/03/2017 |
59. The Poverty of Territorialism: Neo-medieval Spatial Planning | Andreas Faludi | 06/04/2017 |
60. Secondary yet metropolitan? | Rodrigo Cardoso | 18/04/2017 |
61. Postcolonial cities in Asia | Gregory Bracken, Nurul Azlan | 22/06/2017 |
62. Flooding in Houston and the PRD: planning as a problem or solution? | Nikki Brand, Marcin Dabrowski, Meng Meng | 14/09/2017 |
63. ‘Obstacles to cross-border cooperation on spatial planning’ | Stefanie Dühr | 07/12/2017 |
64. Autonomous vehicles & the city of tomorrow | Esther González-González – | 06/03/2018 |
65. Urban development and the conflict modernisation and renewal | Prof. Dag Kitang | 13/03/2018 |
66. Automated Landscapes | Victor Muñoz Sanz | 24/04/2018 |
67. Spatial Quality Advice in the Netherlands | José van Campen & Sandra v. Assen | 17/05/2018 |
68. Political ideologies and settlement patterns in the Arctic | Akkelies van Nes – | 31/05/2018 |
69. : How should we drive emerging mobility technologies? | Milos Mladenovic | 21/06/2018 |
70. City branding in the face of ecological modernization | Prof. Martin de Jong: | 28/06/2018 |
71. The Spatial Form of Economic Activity | Birgit Hausleitner | 06/09/2018 |
72. Urban Dynamics and Spatial Behaviour in London | Patrizia Sulis | 20/09/2018 |
73. Spatial and institutional path dependencies in Naples port-city region | Paolo de Martino | 02/10/2018 |
74. Citizen Engagement in Planning Major Infrastructure Projects | Prof. Jim Claydon | 20/11/2018 |
75. Discovering the authenticity of historical city through a collaborative design project | Keisuke Sugano | 18/12/2018 |
76. Sustainable Urban Design Framework | Nico Larco: | 08/01/2019 |
77. Discovering flood risk management strategies in Chinese coastal cities, 24 January | Faith Chan | 24/01/2019 |
78. Planning reform, heritage management and sense of place | Azadeh Arjomand Kermani | 07/02/2019 |
79. Amphibian Housing for a Resilient City | Andrea Pliego | 28/03/2019 |
80. EU Cohesion Policy and the Public Sphere: Connecting Locally with Citizens? | Carlos Mendez | 18/04/2019 |
81. Citizenship in Asia and the West in a Comparative Perspective | Gregory Bracken & Deirdre Sneep | 16/05/2019 |