*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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80 <strong>Sp<strong>at</strong>ial</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> & Str<strong>at</strong>egy<br />
My experience as a Master<br />
student with SPS<br />
SHYREEN SHAIB, INNOVATION & STRATEGY OFFICER<br />
THE DUTCH MINISTRY OF INFRASTRUC<strong>TU</strong>RE AND WATER MANAGEMENT<br />
When I started my<br />
masters <strong>at</strong> <strong>TU</strong> <strong>Delft</strong>,<br />
I actively chose<br />
the Urbanism track for its<br />
intern<strong>at</strong>ional and integr<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
approach. The Urbanism<br />
track made sure to let us<br />
experience the complete<br />
spectrum of urban governance,<br />
planning, and design,<br />
and through it I found my<br />
love for complexity. I sought<br />
this complexity <strong>by</strong> choosing<br />
larger and larger scales<br />
of projects, and the more I<br />
dived into this complexity,<br />
the more I realised it was<br />
more rel<strong>at</strong>ed to governance<br />
and the integr<strong>at</strong>ion of institutional<br />
systems than actual<br />
design and the making of<br />
design-rel<strong>at</strong>ed choices.<br />
Thankfully, I was greeted<br />
with enthusiasm and<br />
flexibility, especially from<br />
Vincent Nadin, when I decided<br />
to do my masters’ thesis<br />
about n<strong>at</strong>ional sp<strong>at</strong>ial-planning<br />
visions. Each meeting<br />
to discuss the advancement<br />
of my thesis was overshadowed<br />
<strong>by</strong> intense discussions<br />
on policies and institutions<br />
rel<strong>at</strong>ed to sp<strong>at</strong>ial planning,<br />
ending with suggestions<br />
for my reading list. I have<br />
a deep appreci<strong>at</strong>ion for<br />
this wide-angle view within<br />
the Urbanism track, which<br />
offered me the comfort and<br />
the right critical and analytical<br />
mindset to work, as I<br />
now do, as a Policy Officer<br />
for the str<strong>at</strong>egic unit of DG<br />
Mobility and Transport <strong>at</strong><br />
the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure<br />
and W<strong>at</strong>er Management.<br />
Fig. 46: Shyreen Shaib, 2018. Photo <strong>by</strong> R. <strong>Rocco</strong>.
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