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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.

Pillars

EVENTS

EXCLUSIVE DIGITAL LECTURE - Charlie Koolhaas presents City Lust

ONLINE

20.04.2020

On Monday 20th April, GUL hosted an exclusive digital conference led by Charlie Koolhaas.

About

Charlie’s new book ‘City Lust: A personal journey through Globalized Economy' explores cultural pockets in the modern-day globalized metropolis through writing and photography. Take a look at a recent interview about the book on de Volkskrant.

Location - Online

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Manifesto for the Just City

EVENTS

Pillars

EVENTS

EXCLUSIVE DIGITAL LECTURE - Charlie Koolhaas presents City Lust

ONLINE

20.04.2020

EVENTS

Manifesto for the Just City

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

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