Results for tag:lecture
‘Planners of the world unite!'
| Date: | 28 May 2018 |
| Author: | Brandt de Vries |
Public spatial planning lecture by Hans Mommaas, general director of the PBL. Exploring possible futures, about the promising role of planning and design in times of transition - 18th of May 2018
Planning as futuring
| Date: | 29 March 2018 |
You can be interested in planning, but if you want to know how it works, you should just be at the tops of politics. This is how prof. Maarten Hajer, a prof by a special appointment at Utrecht University, started his speech. Making planning great again,...
Spatial Planning Lecture by Prof. Kristof van Assche
| Date: | 09 March 2018 |
| Author: | Ciska Ulug |
The reality effects of policy and planning
Despite attempts by policy makers and planners, there is always a discrepancy between what is laid out on paper and what is translated into reality. While the unrealistic expectations of this technical rational...
Eliminate the citizen?
| Date: | 29 November 2017 |
| Author: | Thai Van Quoc Nguyen |
A glance at Ferenc van Damme’s punny title for his presentation suggests a resemblance to the Canadian thinker Marshall McLuhan’s antimodernist exclamation: ‘Our only hope is apocalypse’. Intellectual preferences aside, one could not help but ask about the...
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,...