For years now the Rotterdam Central Station area is under construction. First, during demolishing of the old post-war style entrance and underground construction works for the metro link, the process was not very visible. Now things are moving fast. Not only is the main terminal approaching it’s final shape and extent above ground, there has [...]
Thursday October 6, the Deltametropolis Association and the Department of Spatial Planning (TUDelft) organize a lecture by Ryan Gravel, on Transit Oriented Development (TOD). As urban planner he is responsible for the development of the Atlanta Beltline, a new light rail connection on an abandoned cargo track around the city. The project emerged bottom-up with [...]
September 2011, Susana Alves and Merten Nefs will present a paper at Environment 2.0, a conference organized by Technical University Eindhoven. The paper discusses the possibilities for Shrinking Cities to attract elderly by spatial features and services and transform their economy to focus on leisure and health care – in other words, to become successful [...]
tIP lecture #1: Bernd Fesel on cultural clusters TU Delft, department of Urbanism and Association Deltametropool invite you to the International Perspectives: Cultural Clusters. A lecture by Bernd Fesel on the creative economy and Randstad Holland on Thursday September 22, 2011. Bernd Fesel is the assistant director of the European centre for Creative Economy and [...]
Thursday September 1, a research project was presented in the Hague, comparing the region of Southwest England with Randstad Holland. The research was done by the team of the CitiesProject at the London School of Economics (LSE). It is titled The Tale of Two Regions. Editors: Ricky Burdett, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and [...]
