*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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Urbanism . <strong>TU</strong> <strong>Delft</strong> 45<br />
SPS main Space Syntax research<br />
centre in the Netherlands<br />
AKKELIES VAN NES<br />
100m<br />
Fig. 23: Space Syntax map from the city of <strong>Delft</strong> produced <strong>by</strong> Akkelies van Nes.<br />
The main base for space syntax<br />
competence in the Netherlands<br />
is <strong>at</strong> the SPS Chair. After<br />
th<strong>at</strong> the 5th intern<strong>at</strong>ional Space<br />
syntax symposium was held <strong>at</strong> <strong>TU</strong><br />
<strong>Delft</strong> in 2005, several researchers,<br />
practitioners, and students from<br />
other universities from the Netherlands,<br />
as well as intern<strong>at</strong>ionally,<br />
contacted us. The space syntax activities<br />
have focused on research,<br />
teaching and consultancy.<br />
Research: Staff from the Chair has<br />
contributed to the development<br />
of new analytical tools and refinements<br />
of the calcul<strong>at</strong>ion methods.<br />
The best-known method is the urban<br />
micro scale tool, developed <strong>by</strong><br />
Akkelies van Nes and Manuel López<br />
in a research project on space and<br />
crime. These tools are now applied<br />
world-wide, <strong>by</strong> PhD students from<br />
various disciplines, ranging from<br />
sociologists, archaeologists, criminologists,<br />
urban designers, and<br />
road engineers. PhD students th<strong>at</strong><br />
have applied space syntax in their<br />
research are building up a space<br />
syntax community in their home<br />
countries.<br />
Teaching: Space syntax has been<br />
used in courses <strong>at</strong> <strong>TU</strong> <strong>Delft</strong> since<br />
2004. First it was held as a masters’<br />
course, “sp<strong>at</strong>ial feasibility”, from<br />
2004-2011. Since 2007 it is used in<br />
the EMU technology course. Since<br />
2009, space syntax is used in the<br />
free choice masters’ course “Complex<br />
Cities”. Since 2007, Akkelies<br />
van Nes has been invited to run<br />
space syntax lectures and workshops<br />
all over the world. Students<br />
who have learned space syntax <strong>at</strong><br />
<strong>TU</strong> <strong>Delft</strong> are applying the method<br />
into practice and in their PhD work.<br />
Consultancy: Regularly, we get<br />
requests from stakeholders to a<br />
space syntax for testing out various<br />
planning proposals. Examples are:<br />
analysing the impacts on shopping<br />
areas of Tilburg’s new city ring road<br />
(2005), evalu<strong>at</strong>ing the impacts of<br />
the various connections between<br />
A4 and A44 in Leiden (2004 and<br />
2011), space and crime in Alkmaar<br />
and Gouda (2005), and bringing<br />
input to the str<strong>at</strong>egic plan of the<br />
province of Noord Holland (2012).
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