TOD-IS-RUR
TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT FOR INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE RURAL-URBAN REGIONS
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) - Innovative Training Network (ITN)
COUNTERING SPRAWL IN EUROPE: RURAL-URBAN PLACEMAKING AND MOBILITY
TOD-IS-RUR in a nutshell
The Innovative Training Network (ITN) TOD-IS-RUR sets up an interdisciplinary, international and intersectoral network to make significant research contributions to the scientific and societal challenge of countering sprawl in Europe. The 9 Beneficiaries and 12 Partner Organizations create a unique platform for 10 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), providing cutting-edge training to analyze rural-urban place-making and develop novel, context-based planning schemes for rural-urban regions (RURs).
The network aims to extend the concept of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) to RURs with a context-based approach, in which interactions between mobility and urbanization are studied in relation to social and environmental qualities.
LATEST NEWS & EVENTS
NEWS
Studio Antwerp - Amsterdam
We just finished a fantastic program for the Studio Antwerp/Amsterdam hosted by our network members based in the University of Antwerp and University of Amsterdam. It was a full week of research/practice dialogues on TOD, academic lectures for our early stage researchers, collaborative 'serious' games, case study visits in the Belgian and Dutch contexts on how mobility/development is practiced or envisioned, immersion in a Dutch rural village, and tour/presentations from local municipal planners who shared their opportunities and challenges when it came to planning around and for mobility.
Congratulations professor Bertolini!
So proud! And well deserved! In recognition of his expertise in urban planning, Professor Luca Bertolini received the Honorary degree in Design Sciences at the University of Antwerp.
Workshop Sweden
The Sweden Micro Workshop which was jointly hosted by KTH Royal Institute of Technology and SLU - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences was concluded with such succes! In the packed two-day program, we had guests joining us to talk about themes on policy mobilities, the case of Knivsta, and policy/report writing: speakers from non-academic partners WSP i Sverige, IQ Samhällsbyggnad and Knivsta Kommun, as well as TOD-IS-RUR Network's scientific advisor Nik Luka from McGill University!
The Framework Paper is published!
This Framework Paper presents both the interdisciplinarity of the TOD-IS-RUR research network, and the multiple angles through which we as a group critically engage with the TOD concept. Written as a series of playful dialogues, the paper attempts to maintain an open debate on transport and land use planning that goes beyond discourses of technical problems and expert solutions and comes closer to concerns of people’s daily lives.
UPCOMING EVENTS
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RT @AK_Klaassen: Had a great and inspiring time at the #AAG2023 in Denver presenting my historical research on public transport pol… https://t.co/FkXIXrQO3a -
Congratulations to Prof. dr. @lbertolini63! 🏆 https://t.co/s3qlqM9X55
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Did you miss Prof. dr. @lbertolini63 Luca Bertolini's masterclass on city planning beyond mobility at @UAntwerpen?… https://t.co/tfhKvPNP5U