*Celebrating Spatial Planning at TU Delft: 2008-2019. Edited by Stead, Bracken, Rooij & Rocco
This is a summary of the achievements of the session Spatial Planning & Strategy of the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, led by Professor Vincent Nadin between 2008 and 2019.
This is a summary of the achievements of the session Spatial Planning & Strategy of the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, led by Professor Vincent Nadin between 2008 and 2019.
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100 <strong>Sp<strong>at</strong>ial</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> & Str<strong>at</strong>egy<br />
The N<strong>at</strong>ional Cheng Kung<br />
University & SPS<br />
HSIUTZU BETTY CHANG<br />
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEP. OF URBAN PLANNING. NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY (NCKU), TAIWAN.<br />
Fig. 63: iCities conference in Tainan, Taiwan. Photo <strong>by</strong> Betty Chang.<br />
It is a gre<strong>at</strong> honour to write about<br />
SPS and Professor Vincent Nadin’s<br />
contribution to the meaningful<br />
expansion of intern<strong>at</strong>ional collabor<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
in our Department and in my<br />
own academic career.<br />
I first met Vincent in 2012 during the<br />
very first iCities Conference in Taiwan.<br />
From then on, in spite of his busy<br />
schedule, Vincent particip<strong>at</strong>ed in<br />
each one of them without exception,<br />
contributed his European experi-<br />
ence, and continued our dialogues<br />
on planning educ<strong>at</strong>ion. I can never<br />
appreci<strong>at</strong>e Vincent enough for his<br />
openness and generosity in accepting<br />
all kinds of proposals th<strong>at</strong> I made in<br />
an <strong>at</strong>tempt to deepen our exchange<br />
and collabor<strong>at</strong>ion. Whether it was<br />
the “<strong>Planning</strong> and Design with W<strong>at</strong>er”<br />
Summer School Programme, the<br />
“Educ<strong>at</strong>ion for W<strong>at</strong>er Resilient Cities<br />
Symposium”, or the theme issue<br />
on <strong>Planning</strong> Practice and Research<br />
Journal, all of these could not have<br />
happened without the critical support<br />
of Vincent.<br />
To conclude, I would like to emphasise<br />
SPS and Vincent’s contribution<br />
to enriching our view on planning<br />
theories, practices, and educ<strong>at</strong>ion, as<br />
well as his support to young fellow<br />
academics. I believe his retirement<br />
means th<strong>at</strong> he is putting on a new<br />
set of tyres, and he will take us to yet<br />
another new territory of planning.
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