Summer School Planning & Design for the Just City 2022: Final Report

The Summer School Planning & Design for the Just City takes place every July at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (Bouwkunde) of the Delft University of Technology. The school is organised by the Centre for the Just City. It is a partnership between Bouwkunde and the Faculty of Technology Policy and Management of the TU...

Rethinking Planning Education using Massive Open Online Courses:the Case of Rethink the City

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) are becoming a popular educational tool in different disciplines. Urban planning education is no exception and new MOOCs are being released every year. Despite this, it is still not clear how this new learning experience is being developed, delivered, and impacting upon planning education. This article sheds...

Characterization of Spatial Planning in Brazil: The Right to the City in Theory and Practice

This article characterizes spatial planning in Brazil from a normative point of view. Because of Brazil’s vast geography and uneven development, it is not possible to describe how spatial planning is carried out in all quarters of the country. We explore key aspects of spatial planning in the country using policy goals, the legal and...

World Urban Forum: Education for the City We Need: Teaching the New Urban Agenda

Launching of TU DELFT Urban Thinkers Report Education for the City We Need: Integrating the New Urban Agenda in Higher Education Curriculums. World Urban Forum 9, Kuala Lumpur, 7-13 February 2018. <br/><br/>Now that the New Urban Agenda has been enacted, the question on everybody’s lips is: HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT? In order to be able to implement...

TU Delft UTC 2017 Report: Education for the City We Need: Exploring how to integrate the UN-Habitat New Urban Agenda in higher education

Between 7 and 9 June 2017, the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the TU Delft organised an Urban Thinkers’ Campus (UTC) on Higher Education for the New Urban Agenda (NUA), titled “EDUCATION FOR THE CITY WE NEED”. As we know, the NUA will guide the efforts of a wide range of actors around urbanisation — nation states, city and...

Towards sustainable territories-in-between: a multidimensional typology of open spaces in Europe

To improve the ecosystem service provided by open spaces in dispersed urban areas is a key challenge for sustainable spatial development in Europe. The typology presented in this article illustrates the different potentials that open spaces in territories-in-between have across 10 cases in Europe. Unlike other typologies, neither function nor...

Urban informality and democratisation in Sao Paulo: The sinous road to citizenship

There has been a renewed interest in informal urbanization among urban thinkers in the last decades. In their contributions to the discourse on urban informality, we often find an overvaluation of informality’s positive aspects. The underlying argument is that governments and planners should ‘learn’ from informal settlements in the global south,...

Urban informality and democratisation in Sao Paulo: The sinuous road to citizenship

Finding structural parameters for energy efficient cities

Europe is going through a great social, economic and environmental period of transition. The changes the EU is currently undergoing have been causing increased awareness about sustainable development, natural resources use and energy efficiency on the agenda at the European level of policy making. However after more than forty years of the...

Understanding the planning of open-spaces in territories-in-between: Dupuy's network urbanism approach applied to areas in-between urban and rural

‘‘Networked regions and cities in times of fragmentation: Developing smart, sustainable and inclusive places"

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...