Rethink the City: New Approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges

In light of rapid urbanisation and the accelerating threats of climate change, scale and multitude are what set the Global North and South apart. Yet, as this course exposes, the issues faced by urban areas have resembling themes and characteristics, regardless of economic status or geographic location. Therefore, in the context of sustainable...

A Manifesto for the Just City: Cities for all

“On Monday 29 MARCH at 18:00 (CET/Amsterdam), TU Delft launched the Book "A Manifesto for the Just City", with texts by a number of guests and 43 manifestos written by students from 25 universities from all over the world.<br/>A “Manifesto for the Just City” comes in the wake of the realisation that socio-spatial justice is a crucial dimension...

The New Urban Normal: Urban Sustainability and Resilience Post COVID-19: TU Delt Urban Thinkers Campus June/July 2020

The COVID19 pandemic has exposed several systemic failures and injustices in the way cities are planned and designed around the world. It has also exposed the failings due to lack of planning in most places in the Global South. Careful, inclusive and participatory spatial planning is thought to greatly strengthen the capacity of societies to...

Housing and Urban Regeneration of Deprived Neighborhoods in Santiago: North-South Perspectives about Collaborative Processes