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Mission Statement

The Global Urban Lab is a communication and action platform, which is part of the TU Delft | Global Initiative. Our goal is to bring visibility and articulation to TU Delft staff and students doing work on urbanisation in the Global South (Low and Middle Income Settings). Next to hosting discussions, lectures and events, the Global Urban Lab predominantly wants to connect and build knowledge: serving as a platform throughout all faculties, schools, and departments for researchers and practitioners to meet, learn and collaborate in a transdisciplinary manner.

Global

In a context of social, political and environmental unrest, there is an urgent need for developing alternative solutions and relations on a global scale. Therefore, the Global Urban Lab wants to share alternative views and knowledge without the traditional Global North centrism, in order to create a positive collaboration between di!erent areas of the planet.

Urban

From a wider perspective, the idea of “urban” includes a broad multiplicity of sites, forms and scales, from the most remote settlements up to global metropolises. This approach sees urbanisation as a process, not as a goal or fixed category, that overcomes and increasingly diffuses the traditional divide between ‘the rural’ versus ‘the urban’.

Lab

The platform aims to actively seek the connection outside of the academic realm, proposing itself as a space for experimentation and action, informing public, private and civic initiatives of innovative research happening at TU Delft.

Events

BOOK LAUNCH: Manifesto for the Just City

29.03.2021
MANIFESTO FOR THE JUST CITY

Online

29.03.2021

2021-03-29 18:00:00

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  • Projects
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Pillars

MANIFESTO FOR THE JUST CITY

BOOK LAUNCH: Manifesto for the Just City

PUBLICATIONS

Report: The New Urban Normal: Urban Sustainability and Resilience Post COVID-19

EDUCATION

MSc Specialisation Sustainable Human Habitats (SHH) program

EVENTS

Why Should I Trust You?

PROJECTS

COVID-19 Response Fund with WHO

PUBLICATIONS

Spatial Planning for Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk: Development of Sponge City Program in Guangzhou

PUBLICATIONS

Housing in Latin America and the Caribbean

PUBLICATIONS

Management of low-income condominiums in Bogotá and Quito the balance between property law and self-organisation

PUBLICATIONS

The role of stakeholders and their participation network in decision-making of urban renewal in China: The case of Chongqing

PUBLICATIONS

Toward Sustainable and Inclusive Housing: Underpinning Housing Policy as Design for Values

News

MANIFESTO FOR THE JUST CITY

BOOK LAUNCH: Manifesto for the Just City

PUBLICATIONS

Report: The New Urban Normal: Urban Sustainability and Resilience Post COVID-19

EDUCATION

MSc Specialisation Sustainable Human Habitats (SHH) program

The Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the Delft University of Technology, invites outstanding university graduates and senior undergraduate students with a design background from universities worldwide to join our new MSc Specialisation Sustainable Human Habitats (SHH) program 2021/2022, starting Sept 2021.

EVENTS

Why Should I Trust You?

PROJECTS

COVID-19 Response Fund with WHO

TU Delft COVID-19 Response Fund

PUBLICATIONS

Spatial Planning for Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk: Development of Sponge City Program in Guangzhou

PUBLICATIONS

Housing in Latin America and the Caribbean

PUBLICATIONS

Management of low-income condominiums in Bogotá and Quito the balance between property law and self-organisation

PUBLICATIONS

The role of stakeholders and their participation network in decision-making of urban renewal in China: The case of Chongqing

PUBLICATIONS

Toward Sustainable and Inclusive Housing: Underpinning Housing Policy as Design for Values

PUBLICATIONS

An analysis of urban renewal decision-making in China from the perspective of transaction costs theory

PUBLICATIONS

Informal settlements in Seoul, 2019: People’s Stories

PROJECTS

When Communities Transform Old Socialist Housing into Adequate Housing

EVENTS

UTC The New Urban Normal Part 3: Housing in Africa

EVENTS

UTC The New Urban Normal Part 2 The Green New Deal

EVENTS

UTC The New Urban Normal Part 1: Perspectives from the Global South

EVENTS

Urban Thinkers Campus 2020: The New Urban Normal

Urban Sustainability and Resilience Post COVID19

PROJECTS

Addis Ababa Living Lab: One Year Later

PROJECTS

Bridging DOCS – Digital and On-Campus Students

PROJECTS

Planning with self‑organised initiatives: from fragmentation to resilience

PROJECTS

A Review of “Planning sustainable cities and regions: towards more equitable development”

PROJECTS

No Access Brazilian urban porosity: treat or threat?

Creating a 'porosity index' to highlight potential social consequences of urban porosity.

PROJECTS

Masks in the time of COVID-19

EVENTS

Slums in the time of Corona - Polis Fuesdays X GUL with Dr. Roberto Rocco

EVENTS

EXCLUSIVE DIGITAL LECTURE - Charlie Koolhaas presents City Lust

EVENTS

The 10th World Urban Forum

PROJECTS

New architectural approach to improve rural housing

PROJECTS

Making Space: Affordable Housing in Emerging Economies

PROJECTS

Building Affordable Homes Using Local Biowaste Materials

PROJECTS

Urban Africa

PROJECTS

Floating Homes for the Philippines

EVENTS

DIGITAL Lecture - Between global crisis and local praxis: comparing housing policy

A lunchtime lecture by Priscila Izar, a Post-Doctorate researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Human Settlements Studies (IHSS) at Ardhi University. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

PROJECTS

Addis Abada Living Lab

The main goal of the project “Addis Ababa Living Lab” is to improve the livelihood of Addis Ababa’s urban dwellers using transdisciplinary approaches of analysis, planning and design.

PUBLICATIONS

Education for the City We Need: Teaching the New Urban Agenda - Report 2018

PUBLICATIONS

Education for the City we Need - Executive Report 2017

PUBLICATIONS

The Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanization

PUBLICATIONS

To build a City in Africa - A History and a Manual

EVENTS

World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi

EVENTS

Seminar - Why Should I trust you?

EVENTS

Lunch Lecture - Innovative tools for the implementation of the New Urban Agenda

EVENTS

Lunch lecture - David Basulto (ArchDaily)

David Basulto, co-founder and CEO of the world's most visited architecture website ‘ArchDaily’.

EVENTS

Book launch: Housing and urban regeneration

PROJECTS

Gender and Land in a Pluralistic System

EDUCATION

MSc in Urban management and development

EVENTS

Global Initiative - Impact Day

We hope to inspire, spark new ideas, and establish new connections and collaborations to generate more impact in the next five years.

PUBLICATIONS

Patch house

Description of the project where recycling and upcicling vernacular materials were used to build a house in Ecuador. Also the project was an experiment of a different kind of architectural education.

PUBLICATIONS

Naturally Public

The phenomenon of excessive urban growth in Latin American cities, without taking into account its territorial characteristics, and the right to public space around fluvial systems and spaces of environmental quality, has unbalanced the development interests of cities.

PUBLICATIONS

Managing Social Condominiums

In Chile, social condominiums are a significant part of the affordable owner-occupied housing stock. However, after decades of occupancy, this housing stock shows rapid signs of deterioration and devaluation due to neglected maintenance.

PUBLICATIONS

Social Innovation in Condominium Management. The Intermediary Role of Third Sector Organisations in Supporting Low-income Homeowners

PUBLICATIONS

Understanding Housing Management by Low-income Homeowners: Technical, Organisational and Sociocultural Challenges in Chilean Condominium Housing

In the context of social vulnerability, the house is an important social and economic resource to cope with poverty. However, low-income homeowners face constraints to maintain their houses, negatively affecting the quality of their dwellings, buildings and neighbourhoods.

PUBLICATIONS

A Review of “Planning sustainable cities and regions: towards more equitable development”, Edited by Karen Chapple

This book review brings some insights to the work of Karen Chapple, especially how it could benefit from a wider perspective and cases from the Global South.

EVENTS

Screening of documentary "Do more with less"

EVENTS

CITY+ 2019: The International Conference for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers on Urban Studies

After being held in the UK for two years, this year City+ 2019 will take place at the Department of Urbanism of Delft University of Technology on 11th October.

EVENTS

Open Call - Pecha Kulcha Nights Vol.1

The Global Urban Lab is the new Delft Global programme bringing visibility and articulation to TU Delft staff and students working on urbanisation in the Global South.

EVENTS

Global Urban Lab: Pecha Kucha nights vol. 1

This is the first of a series of Pecha Kucha nights in which the Global Urban Lab wants to bring researchers, staff and students together working on topics of urbanisation and the built environment in the Global South. More information will follow soon!

EVENTS

Urban Thinkers

This will be a 3-day workshop led by the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the TU Delft, Delft Global Initiative and the Global Urban Lab in which stakeholders will discuss the 5 issues of development related to the New Urban Agenda mentioned above).

EVENTS

African Perspectives

TU Delft will become a centre of excellence for research and education related to African urbanisation and architecture with in the next 3-8 years. This is because we wish to have a positive impact on African’s rapid urbanisation in the next years. Africa is urbanising at record rates.

EVENTS

Conference: Vernacular Architecture as Frame of Life in Historic and Ancient Societies

Multidisciplinary approach into vernacular architecture and heritage

PUBLICATIONS

No Access Brazilian urban porosity: treat or threat?

EDUCATION

Rethink the City: New approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges

EVENTS

Congress of Somali Study International Association

Somali Studies International Association was established in 1978. It is an organization that has played a central role in defining the field of modern Somali Studies, and since its establishment, it has organized 12 International Congresses, and many other regional and continental conferences. Out of the 12 International congresses, only four took place in the Somali speaking territories. 40 years later, it is high time for SSIA to hold its Congress in the Horn of Africa. In fact holding 2018 SSIA in Hargeysa will enable Somali studies to reconnect with the current reality on the ground.

PROJECTS

South by South. Development in southern geographies