Rio Olympic Legacy: Missed Opportunities

Frontpage Planning: Before and After Major Events, Disasters and Social Unrest

Teaching for Urbanism: A Didactical Experience in a Newly Academicized Area

This paper describes a didactical experience in the Masters course of the Department of Urbanism of the Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and issues related to the academicization of its curriculum. Although urbanism is a firmly established discipline in many curricula, in The Netherlands it has entered higher education as a...

An urban geography of globalisation: New urban structures in the age of hyper-connectivity

How is Globalisation changing the form and spatial structure of cities today? Deceptively simple, this question presents us with a number of methodological challenges and unanswered theoretical problems. What is globalization? Can we define a series of distinctive new phenomena constituting a coherent and logical outline? Do these phenomena...

The image of the city in São Paulo: identity and crisis

Comfort considerations in the design of fast monohulls