Welcome to my personal website. You will find here pages with info about my work and a blog with updates.
New paper on water-linked heritage as a driver for sustainable urban and regional development
Our new paper on using water-linked heritage as a vector of sustainable urban and regional development, building on the Interreg WaVE project case studies, has just been published in the Blue Papers. Water and water-linked heritage play a very important role for many cities and regions. They are at the center of many places’ identities … Continue reading New paper on water-linked heritage as a driver for sustainable urban and regional development
New project: Urban Planning and design ready for 2030 (UP2030)
I am involved in a new large EU-funded research project: UP2030 “Urban Planning and design ready for 2030”. The project is a Horizon Europe Innovation Action that aims to support cities in achieving climate neutrality through socio-technical transitions. The project is coordinated by Fraunhofer Institute and with the participation of 46 European partners. The project will run … Continue reading New project: Urban Planning and design ready for 2030 (UP2030)
Inclusive urbanism
Together with Stefano Calzati and Thomas Verbeek, my colleagues from TU Delft, we gathered researchers from across the different sections of the Urbanism Department - representing spatial planning, urban design, urban studies, environmental technology & design, landscape architecture and urban data science - to discuss ongoing research on 'inclusive urbanism' and identify some opportunities for … Continue reading Inclusive urbanism
New project: Democratising jUst Sustainability Transitions
In the context of eroding democratic institutions, the European Union (EU) – in collaboration with national, regional, and local governments - seeks to bring its policies closer to citizens, in line with the active subsidiarity principle. Informed by this concept, Institution Name and partners under the lead of TU Delft set up the project Democratising … Continue reading New project: Democratising jUst Sustainability Transitions
2 Horizon Europe grants won
We won the competition for a Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Action grant as leaders. The project is called DUST (Democratising jUst Sustainability Transitions). We also contributed to another successful Innovation Action bid called UP2030 (Urban Planning and Design Ready for 2030), lead by Fraunhofer Institute. I cannot reveal more at this stage so watch … Continue reading 2 Horizon Europe grants won
Inertia and change in planning for flood resilience
A paper based on the PhD thesis of Meng Meng (SCUT, TU Delft), has just been accepted for publication in Cities. It is available here for your reading pleasure ahead of print: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103702 The adopted measures to deal with flood risk in the Guangzhou city centre during 1984–2010. Author: Meng Meng This paper explores the historical experience of Guangzhou's spatial … Continue reading Inertia and change in planning for flood resilience
Manifesto for the future of water-linked heritage (Interreg WaVE)
We published a snappy and insightful, policy-oriented document summarising the key take-away messages and lessons from the Interreg WaVE project, piloting actions for the use of water-linked heritage in cities and regions as a driver for ecosystemic changes and sustainability transitions. The project puts a strong emphasis on citizen engagement and co-creation as means to … Continue reading Manifesto for the future of water-linked heritage (Interreg WaVE)
Integrated, adaptive and participatory spatial planning
Spatial planning in Europe has been shifting towards more (1) integration across policies, (2) more adaptive planning, and (3) more participatory decision-making. You can find out more about the patterns, drivers and some caveats behind those trends in our paper published in Regional Studies. The paper builds on the ESPON COMPASS project. In a nutshell, concerning the … Continue reading Integrated, adaptive and participatory spatial planning
New paper on community placemaking in Taipei
I contributed to an article, co-authored by Hsinko Cinco Yu and Tsai-Hung Lin, which investigates the potential of placemaking for stimulating active engagement of tenants in management of social housing and its shared spaces in Taipei. Being part of a forthcoming special issue of Planning Practice and Research on policy transfer in planning and urban policies, we also explore how … Continue reading New paper on community placemaking in Taipei
Marcin Dąbrowski 