*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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40 <strong>Sp<strong>at</strong>ial</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> & Str<strong>at</strong>egy<br />
Union for the Mediterranean<br />
UfM Working Group on Urban Regener<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
ROBERTO ROCCO & REMON ROOIJ<br />
The Union for the Mediterranean is<br />
an intergovernmental institution<br />
bringing together 43 countries to<br />
promote dialogue and cooper<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
in the Euro-Mediterranean region.<br />
The UfM Working Group on Urban Regener<strong>at</strong>ion,<br />
in partnership with member<br />
st<strong>at</strong>es, will develop an Action Plan on Urban<br />
Regener<strong>at</strong>ion and a project pipeline<br />
under the UfM Urban Agenda of 2017. <strong>TU</strong><br />
<strong>Delft</strong> (SPS) is the lead knowledge partner<br />
in this process, in charge of coordin<strong>at</strong>ing<br />
research th<strong>at</strong> will ground the Action Plan.<br />
The Action Plan aims to promote integr<strong>at</strong>ed,<br />
sustainable, fair and inclusive urban<br />
regener<strong>at</strong>ion and development across<br />
the Mediterranean region as a means to<br />
foster human development, economic<br />
prosperity, political stability and overall<br />
sustainability. The key frameworks for<br />
the action plan are: example projects,<br />
performance indic<strong>at</strong>ors, regional convergence<br />
criteria, financial str<strong>at</strong>egy, citizen<br />
engagement, and capacity building. The<br />
key areas of action for integr<strong>at</strong>ed urban<br />
planning focus on: 1. Informal settlements<br />
and deprived neighbourhoods as<br />
focus points for the cre<strong>at</strong>ion of inclusive<br />
cities and regions. 2. Former brownfields<br />
and railway sites as focus points for urban<br />
regener<strong>at</strong>ion, and area re-development.<br />
3. Heritage and tourism as drivers<br />
of economic prosperity. 4. Port-areas,<br />
port-cities, and their hinterlands as drivers<br />
of sustainable economic prosperity.<br />
Besides coordin<strong>at</strong>ing the writing of the<br />
action plan, <strong>TU</strong> <strong>Delft</strong> will deliver a series<br />
of events, short capacity building courses<br />
and a summer school on urban development<br />
around the Mediterranean, with<br />
the objective of g<strong>at</strong>hering a community<br />
of academics, policy makers, and students<br />
from around the region who will<br />
be future leaders for positive change in<br />
the Mediterranean bassin. <strong>TU</strong> <strong>Delft</strong>’s particip<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
is funded <strong>by</strong> the Dutch Ministry<br />
of Foreign Affairs (MinBuZa).<br />
Fig . 19: Istanbul, metropolis on the Mediterranean. Photo <strong>by</strong> R. <strong>Rocco</strong>.
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