Everyday places of belonging
| Date: | 10 October 2018 |
| Author: | Rik Huizinga |
“Did you see my neighbour? He is always sitting in front of this door. He is so nice, because he always asks me how I feel and if I need something (…) my mother doesn’t speak English or Dutch, but he always greets her or waves at her. I like that, that is...
50 years of Spatial Planning – a summary
| Date: | 19 July 2018 |
| Author: | Imre Veen |
50 years ago, on the 2nd of July 1968, prof. G.J. van den Berg was appointed at the RU Groningen to lecture ‘Planning & Demography’. Van den Berg's immediate interest was Spatial Planning. His appointment marks the beginning of fifty years of development,...
‘Planners of the world unite!'
| Date: | 28 May 2018 |
| Author: | Brandt de Vries |
Public spatial planning lecture by Hans Mommaas, general director of the PBL. Exploring possible futures, about the promising role of planning and design in times of transition - 18th of May 2018
Wales, an experiment in governance for sustainability and well-being
| Date: | 28 May 2018 |
Matthew Quinn (Sustainable Places Research Institute at Cardiff University, Distinguished Visiting Fellow) URSI lunch seminar, Tuesday May 22, 2018
Young Academics AESOP Conference 2018 at the University of Groningen
| Date: | 18 April 2018 |
| Author: | Steven Forrest |
The 12th Young Academics Conference of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) was successfully hosted at the University of Groningen from the 26th-29th March 2018. The international conference is one of the largest gathering of young...
Planning as futuring
| Date: | 29 March 2018 |
You can be interested in planning, but if you want to know how it works, you should just be at the tops of politics. This is how prof. Maarten Hajer, a prof by a special appointment at Utrecht University, started his speech. Making planning great again,...
Spatial Planning Lecture by Prof. Kristof van Assche
| Date: | 09 March 2018 |
| Author: | Ciska Ulug |
The reality effects of policy and planning
Despite attempts by policy makers and planners, there is always a discrepancy between what is laid out on paper and what is translated into reality. While the unrealistic expectations of this technical rational...
The FamilyTies project: Family ties, internal migration and immobility
| Date: | 13 February 2018 |
| Author: | prof. Clara Mulder |
Population geographers have played an important role in gaining understanding of migration patterns, processes and outcomes. However, despite a growing research attention to inter-generational care and geographical distances between family members, the...
Resilience in Spatial Planning: Course delivered at Tallinn University
| Date: | 12 December 2017 |
| Author: | Steven Forrest and Elen-Maarja Trell |
Dr Elen-Maarja Trell and Steven Forrest travelled to Tallinn University (Estonia) to deliver a two day course on resilience. The course was an ‘Introduction to Resilience in Spatial Planning’ and involved approximately 40 students from Tallinn University’s...
Eliminate the citizen?
| Date: | 29 November 2017 |
| Author: | Thai Van Quoc Nguyen |
A glance at Ferenc van Damme’s punny title for his presentation suggests a resemblance to the Canadian thinker Marshall McLuhan’s antimodernist exclamation: ‘Our only hope is apocalypse’. Intellectual preferences aside, one could not help but ask about the...