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Here is the 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,800 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. Click…
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NADIN Introduction to TUDelft and Bouwkunde
NADIN INTRODUCTION TO PLANNING. Professor Vincent Nadin joined the Department of Urbanism in January 2008 as full-time Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy, coming from the Department of Planning and Architecture at the University of the West of England. He leads the spatial planning chair and the Randstad research programme which involves the Urban…
GERDA ROELEVELD Governance in Spatial Planning Ir. Gerda Roeleveld is an expert in the field of spatial planning and research by design. As a landscape architect, Gerda Roeleveld acquired ample experience in the field of spatial planning and policy making, whilst working for the former Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in The…
BACCHIN Sustainable Infrastructures Taneha K. Bacchin is an Architect and Urban Planner, Research Associate at the Chair of Environmental Technology & Design, Delft University of Technology, Researcher at the Flood Resilience Group, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. She holds a M.Sc. Degree in Architecture (summa cum laude) and M.Sc. Postgraduate Degree (with honour) in Spatial…
People will be surprised to know that we have strongly discouraged the use of computers during the Summer School. Instead, we urged students to find other ways to communicate their ideas, mainly through hand drawing, but also through oral explanations. We find that students are incredibly resourceful when encouraged to use alternative ways of expression.…
We also gave students a tour of Kinderdijk, a UNESCO heritage site. According to the site Kinderdijk.com : “A significant part of Holland is situated up to approximately 7 meters below sea level. The Dutch don’t notice any of this though, because an incredibly innovative and intricate system keeps the ever-rising seawater from flooding the…
The importance of site visits cannot be underestimated. We have visited Vlaardingen (the case site), Rotterdam, Delft, the Maeslantkering and have learned a lot by observing spaces and being explained about the mechanics of the water systems in the Netherlands in locu. However, there is only a limited understanding of processes and trends one can have by observing urban…
According to Wikipedia, a SWOT analysis is a structured planning method used to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats involved in a project. A SWOT analysis can be carried out for a product, place, industry or person. It involves specifying the objective of the project and identifying the internal and external factors that are favourable and unfavorable to achieve that objective. Here you…
TU Delft Planning and Design for the Just City 