Dr. Ir. Ana María Fernández Maldonado

I am a full-time academic researcher working at the Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy within the Department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture  at the Delft University of Technology. I defended my PhD thesis in 2004, on ICT-related urban developments. My current research interests vary from knowledge-based urban development in European cities, to urban transformations in developing countries. I teach Theory of Urbanism, I supervise students of the Masters Course of the Department of Urbanism, and I am co-promoter of PhD candidates of Prof. Vincent Nadin’s Chair. 

• Doctor of Philosophy, December 2004, Spatial Planning, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  - Dissertation: ICT-related transformations in Latin American metropolises
  - Research Director: Professor Paul Drewe
• Master of Technological Design, June 1994, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  - Dissertation: In search of new approaches for problem estates
• Master of Science, December 1989, Faculty of Architecture, National Engineering University, Lima, Peru.
  - Area of Emphasis: Human Settlements
• Bachelor of Architecture, Urbanism and Arts, December 1982, Faculty of Architecture, National Engineering University, Lima, Peru.

• Full time scientific researcher at the Chair Spatial Planning and Strategy (August 1997-present), Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology
• Part-time scientific researcher at the Chair Spatial Planning and Strategy (September 1994-1997), Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology
• Staff member of the Postgraduate Section, Faculty of Architecture, National Engineering University, Lima, Peru
• Head of the Urban Planning Section, Municipality of Comas, Lima, Peru.
• Co-owner of Arquitectas Asociadas,  architectural and urbanism design bureau in Lima, Peru

Fields of research

Knowledge-based urban development, creative city policies and strategies in Europe, self-help housing, housing policies in developing countries, informal urbanism and informal settlements, ICT infrastructure, water infrastructure in cities of developing countries, ICT-related transformations in cities, polycentric structures in Latin American metropolises, urban transformations in developing countries.

2011

• Romein, A., Fernández-Maldonado, A.M. and Trip, J.J., 2011. ‘Delft blues: the long road from university town to knowledge city’, International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp.148–165.
• Fernández-Maldonado, A.M., 2011. Spatial interventions as planning tools  for knowledge-based development in the Netherlands Paper presented at the 2011 EURA Conference "Cities without Limits", Copenhagen 23 - 25 June 2011
• Fernández-Maldonado, A. M., 2011. 'Trends toward Urbanization in the Americas', in H. Tarver (ed.), World History Encyclopedia, Era 8: Crisis and Achievement, 1900-1945, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA.

2010

• Fernández-Maldonado, A.M., 2010. Combining design and high-tech in knowledge cities: the case of Eindhoven, Presented at for the Knowledge Cities World Summit 2010 Conference, Melbourne, 16-19 November 2010.
• Fernández-Maldonado, A.M., 2010. Design issues in knowledge cities: the case of Eindhoven, Keynote speech at the Knowledge Cities World Summit 2010 Conference Melbourne, 17 November 2010.
• Fernández-Maldonado, A.M. and Bredenoord, J., 2010. Progressive housing approaches in the current Peruvian policies. Habitat International, Vol. 34, No.3, pp. 342-350. 
• Fernández-Maldonado, A.M. & Romein, A., 2010. The role of organisational capacity and knowledge-based development: the reinvention of Eindhoven. International Journal of Knowledge Based Development, Vol. 1, No. 1/2, pp. 79-96. 
• Fernández-Maldonado, A.M. and Romein, A., 2010. Kennisstad Eindhoven als regionaal samenwerkingsmodel. Rooilijn, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 98-105. 
• Fernández-Maldonado, A.M., Verkoren,, O., Romein, A. and Parente, R. P., 2010. Polycentric structures in Latin American metropolitan areas: comparing the 'hard evidence', Presented at the Workshop ‘Urban Systems 2.0’ on the spatial organization, structure, performance and planning of contemporary urban systems. Delft, September 16-17.
• Fernández-Maldonado, A.M., 2010. Recent housing policies in Lima and their effects on sustainability, Presented at the 46th ISOCARP Conference "Sustainable City / Developing World", Nairobi, 19-23 September 2010.
• Fernández-Maldonado, A.M., 2010. Subcentre development in peripheral areas of Latin American cities. The case of Lima, Peru, Presented at the 2010 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada October 6-9, 2010.

Full overview of academic publications

• Metis

• ICT-related Transformations in Latin American Metropolises Amsterdam: Techne Press
  
• Transforming Neighbourhoods. Examples of the French Practice in the Banlieue of Ile-de-France. (In co-authorship with Edward Hulsbergen and Paul Stouten). Delft, DUP Satellite.