A sustainable network: 10 years of collaboration with Rijkswaterstaat
| Date: | 28 November 2017 |
Last Wednesday (November 22, 2017), the Symposium ‘Sustainable Networks’ (in Dutch: Duurzame Netwerken) was organised by the Department of Spatial Planning & Environment to celebrate the 10 year collaboration between the department and the Rijkswaterstaat
Rethinking Car Dependence: Public Spatial Planning Lecture by Hans Jeekel
| Date: | 27 November 2017 |
Municipalities that strive for sustainability simultaneously plan highly mono-functional areas that create a high degree of car dependency. In a church (Doopsgezinde Kerk) filled to the brim with students and staff of the Faculty of Spatial Sciences,...
The image of a place
| Date: | 24 November 2017 |
| Author: | L.G. Horlings |
This inspiring event was organized in ‘Holwerd at sea’ by the Knowledge Network Northern Space and the national knowledge institute cultural education and amateur art. More than 140 people attended the event.
Planners, problematize housing wealth inequality!
| Date: | 17 November 2017 |
Especially in countries that have carried-out (neo-)liberal housing policies in the last decades, housing wealth inequality has increased. This is a rather shocking conclusion, since wealth accumulation is one of the main policy objective of homeownership...
Book: The Virtual and the Real in Planning and Urban Design
| Date: | 16 October 2017 |
| Author: | Claudia Yamu, Alenka Poplin, Oswald Devisch and Gert de Roo |
The Virtual and the Real in Planning and Urban Design: Perspectives, Practices and Applications explores the merging relationship between physical and virtual spaces in planning and urban design. Technological advances such as smart sensors, interactive...
SUSPLACE Autumn School, Aveiro, Portugal October 2-6
| Date: | 09 October 2017 |
| Author: | Nienke Busscher |
From 2 till 6 October the SUSPLACE Autumn School ‘Shaping Places Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries’ took place in Aveiro, Portugal. SUSPLACE is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Network funded by the European Commission (see www...
“Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places”*: a new book by Elen-Maarja Trell, Britta Restemeyer, Melanie Bakema, Bettina van Hoven
| Date: | 06 October 2017 |
| Author: | Elen-Maarja Trell, Britta Restemeyer, Melanie M. Bakema, Bettina van Hoven |
Who owns the city?
| Date: | 12 September 2017 |
| Author: | L.G. Horlings |
In June 2017 Prof. Saskia Sassen gave a presentation in Dublin during the annual conference of the Regional Studies Association. She talked about ‘extreme cities’ and applied an approach of what she termed as analytics tactics to destabilize stable...
The Great Regional Awakening: New directions
| Date: | 12 September 2017 |
| Author: | L.G. Horlings |
From 4-7 June the yearly annual conference of the Regional Studies Association took place entitled 'The Great Regional Awakening'. The location, Trinity College is an historical location in the heart of Dublin. Hereby a summary of some interesting...