COSMOPOLIS. City, Culture
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Free University Brussels
Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel
Tel: + 32 (0) 2 629 37 41
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Nadia CASABELLA
Current position
PhD researcher: ’Urban Networks: re-stating spatial policy in Netherlands and Belgium (1997-2007)’
Contact
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
WE DGGF, 6F326, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: 032 2 629 33 77
Email: nadia.casabella@vub.ac.be
Diplomas
DEA in urban planning and design, advanced studies diploma, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (2006) MSc in Regional and Urban Planning, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE, 2005) Dissertation: “Netherlands Inc.: the implications for spatial policy of the entrepreneurial turn of the nation state” on the topic of nationally-driven territorial competition Eng. Architect, Architecture School of Barcelona (ETSAB, 1997) - Graduation project consisting of a ‘Bath House’ in the historical core of Barcelona
Research
PhD candidate on Urban Networks: re-stating spatial policy in Netherlands and Belgium (1997-2007) exploring the changes in spatial policy operated in the Dutch Randstad and the Belgium Brussels Capital Region by looking at two important transport infrastructural projects, respectively Stedenbaan and the RER. Supervisors: Dr. Arq. Joaquín Sabaté (Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Polytechnic University of Catalonia) and Prof. Dr. Eric Corijn
Publications
N. Casabella & P. Frenay, Regional planning choices: comparing the RER in Brussels (BE) and the stedenbaan in South Holland (NL), published paper in international conference proceedings, “The 4th International Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU), 2009 Amsterdam/Delft, The New Urban Question – Urbanism beyond Neo- Liberalism” N. Casabella, Stedenbaan through the prism of (socially produced) scale, paper presented at international PhD seminar in Leuven, “Trascending the discipline. Urbanism & Urbanization as receptors of multiple practices, dicourses and realities”, October 2009 N. Casabella, Stedenbaan: la ferrovia urbanizada del ala sur del Randstad, published paper in international conference proceedings, “Terceras Jornadas sobre investigación en Arquitectura y Urbanismo”, Madrid June 2009 N. Casabella, El espacio entremedio: un New Deal para los paisajes metropolitanos del ala sur del Randstad, published paper in international conference proceedings, “Terceras Jornadas sobre investigacion en Arquitectura y Urbanismo”, Madrid June 2009 N. Casabella & B. Gellynck, “Geld is de drijfveer”, De Architect, Juli-Augustus 2008 N. Casabella & R. Soto, publication of own architectural work in the book Nova Arquitectura Catalana, edited and pub¬lished by the COAC (Professional Association of Catalan Architects), 2008 N. Casabella, H. Thoele, Tussenruimte. Naar een New Deal voor metropolitane landschappen in de Zuidvleugel van de Randstad Provincie Zuid-Holland, 2007 N. Casabella, P. Gerretsen, H. Thoele, Een nieuwe omgang met landschap in de Zuidvleugel, Rooilijn jg.40, n.6, 2007 N. Casabella, Tien dingen die je gewoon moet doen... voor het ruimtelijk ontwikkelen van een topregio, BAVO, #010 Atelier Zuidvleugel (Provincie Zuid-Holland; 2007)
Teaching
Project design assistant U22, La Cambre (from December 2009) Lecturer of Methods and Techniques of urbanistic research, SteR*, EhB (from November 2009) Tutor of the bachelor thesis by Jelle Adamse on the topic of agency and recent landscape transformations of the Rotterdam and The Hague conurbation, together with Leonie Jansen-Janssen (University of Amsterdam, 2007) Urban project design assistant, 4th year (master level) at the school of architecture La Salle, University Ramon Llul, Barcelona (2003-04) Since 2001, guest jury in several presentations of student design and graduation projects, most recently at La Cambre (Brussels, BE) and TU Gent (Gent, BE); previously at the masters 4Cities and Polis (VUB), St. Lukas Brussels, Los Angeles School of Design, The Hague Art School, TU Delft, Bartlett School, Faculty of Architecture of Barcelona and Faculty of Architecture of La Coruna
Other interesting activities
Member of SteR* Pedagogic Committee (since January 2010) Co-organizer of lecture series at the EhB, with Stefan de Corte and Elke Vanempten, starting in December 2010, and whose first lecturer was Dr. Arq. Flavio Janches on “Unsluming” forthcoming lectures: Kees Christiaanse, Isabelle Doucet, etc.) Consultancy work for the Galician Regional Government (a Xunta), together with X.M. Casabella, for assessing the POL (Plan for the Galician Coast Landscapes) before its governmental approval (March-April 2010) Winning entry in restricted competition for a Masterplan in Machelen-Diegem, organized by the Vlaams Bouwmeister (September-November 2010), as part of 1010au (www.1010au.net) and in collaboration with maxwan (www.maxwan.com)
Favorite urban spot
Any train station at its congestion peak… the first day of summer holidays at Barcelona Sants; the end of a normal working day at London Waterloo; Rotterdam central station when the weekly shopping evening concludes; any early morning at Brussels central station. What do I find there? A city bursting through its seams…
Vacancy: Assistant/Associate Professor Economic Geography
A tenured full/time position in economic geography is available at COSMOPOLIS (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) to begin October 2012.
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