what is urbanism at tu delft ? mar 2014
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This is a presentation where I introduce basic ideas on what is Urbanism at TU Delft and how it is taught. This presentation cannot be seen as the official view of the university on the subject. It is my interpretation of the course and reflects my understanding of the integration of the human sciences, the physical sciences and most particularly DESIGN in the course given at TU Delft. In this presentation, I take special care of explaining what are "objectives" of urbanism, so as to give prospective students a good notion of the tasks ahead.TRANSCRIPT
What is ‘Urbanism’ at TU Delft?
Prepared by Roberto RoccoChair Spatial Planning and Strategy, TU Delft
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URBANISM
But what is ‘Urbanism’?
Organization and design of human activity activity over a
territory
area
local
urban
metropolitan
But what is ‘Urbanism’?
regional
It is easier to send a man to the moon than to plan and design
a city
SIR PETER HALL SAID:
Sao Paulo, Brazil, pop. 18 million (2010)
But this is not so complex... Or is it?
Delft, The Netherlands, pop.: 96.000 (2008)
Urbanisation in the Netherlands, 1950 Urbanisation in the Netherlands, 2010
Delft Delft
Urbanisation in the Randstad, 1950 Urbanisation in the Randstad, 2010
Delft Delft
Complex enough for you?Commuting patterns in The Randstad (2008), source: VROM.
Why do we design?
For whom do we design?
What do we want to achieve?
Consolidation of
objectives of Urbanism
around the notion of
sustainability
Image source: Sarah Cass at sarahcass.blogspot.com
‘Enhanced’ Sustainability
• “For sustainability to occur, it must occur simultaneously in each of its three dimensions” (economic, social and environmental) Larsen, 2012
sustainabilitysocial economic
environmental
• the elaboration of visions and directions for sustainable and fair futures
the elaboration of visions and directions for
sustainable and fair futures
Burnham Place at Union Station Master Plan; Washington, D.C. (Image: Akridge & SBA)
Increased public goods
Aerial view of the winning design for the European Spallation Source (ESS) by Henning Larsen Architects, COBE and SLA (Image: Henning Larsen Architects)
Redistribution of gains
http://roarmag.org/2011/11/what-the-99-want-all-power-to-the-peoples-assemblies/
Increased life chances and
prosperity
URBAN PLANNERS AND DESIGNERS ARE NO LONGER THE ALL POWERFUL FIGURES THEY ONCE THOUGHT THEY WERE. WE HAVE MOVED AWAY FROM IDEAS LIKE THE IDEAL CITY
Bijlmermeer
THE MAIN TASK FOR URBAN PLANNERS AND DESIGNERS IS TO ACT AS ARTICULATORS OF SPATIAL VISIONS AND SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE AND FAIR FUTURES
Foster + Partners, Duisburg City Masterplan, Duisburg, Germany, 2007. The new masterplan for the inner city of Duisburg builds on the success of Foster + Partners’ Inner
Harbour redevelopment and will strengthen Duisburg’s transformation into a vibrant, green and sustainable city. Available at: http://www.fosterandpartners.com/Projects/
1443/Default.aspx
THEY DO THAT BY UNDERSTANDING HUMAN ACTIVITY ON SPACE AND BY PROPOSING INTERVENTIONS THAT MIGHT IMPROVE EXISTING CONDITIONS
James Bell: Visualising Social Space, All rights reserved by jamvlog. Available at Flickr
URBANISTS DO NOT “MAKE” CITIES. THEY ARE ONE OF THE AGENTS THAT ACT IN ORDER TO STEER THE CITY
http://www.beyondsims.com/44663/new-simcity-screenshot-2/
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Photo: Henco Bekkering
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Photo: Henco Bekkering
Design
HumanSciences
PhysicalSciences
AR2U090 Methodology for Urbanism*Logics of EnquiryIn this exercise, you will need to ‘locate’ yourself inthe hypothetical triangle that composes URBANISM at TU Delft. According to your previous education and aspirations for the future, where would you be? Mark a cross inside the triangle and write your name and country of origin near that cross. Would you add another element to this geometrical form? Is it a polygon? A square? What other categories would you add, if any? Urbanism?
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MSc Programme: First Year
‘Designing the Urban Plan and Planning the Urban Design’ R&D Studios: Three foci, three levels of scale, three ranges of approaches, three P’s for sustainability.Fundamentals: Broader scope on critical history and theory, practice, urban engineering, and methods.
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R & D Studio
R & D Studio
R & D Studio
Analysis & Design of Urban Form(design practice the urban scale)
Social spatial processes in the city(design practice and research
the neighbourhood scale)
Spatial strategies for theGlobal Metropolis
(design practice and research metropolitan/regional scale)
History and Theory of Urbanism
(theoretical)
Sustainable Urban Engineering of the
Territory(theoretical + instrumental)
Practice of Urbanism(theoretical expositive)
Research and design methodology for urbanism
(instrumental expositive)
Free choice(varied)
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Methodol-ogy (Thesis
Plan)
(instrumental expositive)
Graduation LabUrbanism
(design practice + varying degrees of theoretical
and instrumental courses)
Graduation LabUrbanism
(almost exclusively design practice)
TU Delft Urbanism Graduation Track (2012)
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Research & Design Studio Q1Analysis and Design of Urban Formurban form and landscape; urban typologies; technical conditions and solutions; legal possibilitiesresearch by design experiment rethink and restructure the city
Viktoria Prilenska (Lithuania), 2010
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Maarten Caspers (Netherlands), 2010
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Fan Tingzhang (Singapore), 2010
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Research & Design Studio Q2
Socio-Spatial Processes in the Citysocio-spatial developments; future use; strategic plan; detailing public space; economic feasibilitydesign assignment framed by empirical research small scale urban intervention
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NIJMEGEN STATION AREA
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Hans Smit (Namibia), 2009
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Research & Design Studio Q3
Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolisglobalization and metropolises; think global, act local; working on multiple scale levels; exploring the future by means of design scenarios defining a strategic metropolitan plan
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Andre Kroese (Netherlands), 2011 Jenny Nauta, Laurens de Lange, Noor Scheltema
With the globalisation and arrival of the internet everything is within
reach, but when you want to go from A to B in real life you still have
to deal with long travel times.
Strategic Project
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Hannah Cremers (Netherlands), 2011 Wieke Villerius, Vera Koning , Arnold van den Berg Jeths
Strategic Project
Deltalicioustowards a more independent Delta
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Elective Courses Q4
Free Choiceexamples: globalisation; cultural heritage; urban design and architecture; media, etc broaden your horizon and/or gain more in-depth knowledge
e.g. Globalisation or Urbanism on Track
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Graduation Studiosyour fascination becomes your specialization
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Kitty Busscher
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Evelina Ozola
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Andrea Bagnato (Italy), 2011
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DELTA INTERVENTIONS
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Vera van den Broek (Netherlands), 2009
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Felie Ciao (China), 2010
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Participating Universities
AsiaThe Chinese University of Hong Kong, 香港中文大學
Tongji University, Shanghai, 同济大学Tsinghua University, Beijing, 清华大学
University of Tokyo, 東京大学National University of Singapore (host)
EuropeDelft University of Technology
ETH Zurich
North AmericaUniversity of California at Berkeley University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
ASIA
CI
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VERT
ICAL 2012 CASE
South Korea 대한민국Old Age 노년
Travels to the Far East : Our faculty offers 5 to 6 students a free visit to the case city andVCA international invites 2 student representatives to the award ceremony & symposium
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成都 ChengduBart van Lakwijk, Herman Pel, Jasper Nijveldt (Netherlands), 2011
2011
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Urban Regeneration
ComplexCities
VerticalCity Asia
Design as Politics
Delta Interventions
T?F
Explore Lab
Complex projects
Veldacademie
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Flowscapes
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MSc Programme: More Information?
Visit the Information Market! General Info & Graduation Projects – Urban Regenerations – Delta Interventions – Complex Cities Design as Politics – Vertical Cities Asia – The Why Factory – ExploreLab ... (& see posters in the street)
Programme Director Master Urbanism : Fransje Hooimeijer
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