Dr. A. (Akkelies) van Nes

I am a full-time assistant professor 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 2002, on road building and urban change at the Department of Land Use and Landscape Planning, University of Life Sciences in Norway. My current research interests vary from urban renewal, planning theory, spatial modeling (space syntax research), developing spatial analyses tools, urban morphology, place phenomenology, space and crime, urban centrality, rural development, archaeology, to road building and urban change. I teach spatial modeling and research methods, 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, September 2002, Department of Land Use and Landscape Planning, University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
  Dissertation: Road building and Urban Change, The effect of ring roads on the location of shops and retail
• Research Director: Professor August Røsnes
• Master of Science, September 2000, Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, University College London, UK
  Dissertation: How ring road change urban areas
• Sivil Architect, May 1993, Oslo School of Architecture, Oslo, Norway. 
  Area of Emphasis: Urban renewal and design of the centre in the town Drammen
• Additional education: August 1993 – January 1994, Three semesters as Landscape architect with profile land use planner at the Department of Land Use and Landscape Planning, University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

•          Full time Assistant professor at the Chair Spatial Planning and Strategy, Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, (April 2003-present).
•         Full time scientific researcher at the Department of Land Use and Landscape Planning, University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway, (January 1999-January 2003).
•         Own firm, Space Syntax Norway, (January 2003-present).
•         Architect and Land Use Planner at the Traffic Department, section Land Use and Transportation, at the Public Roads Administration, Akershus, Norway, (October 1996-January 1999).
•         Engineer at the Building and Planning department in Asker municipality, Norway (December 1994-October 1996).
•         Architect at the Town Planning Department in Drammen municipality, Norway (December 1993-September 1994).

Urban renewal, developing and applying spatial analyses tools (urban morphology, space syntax, ect.) to apply them in strategic planning, space and crime in problem neighbourhoods, planning theory, rural development, the mobility net and urban centrality, application of spatial tools in archaeological research.

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Books

·         Rosemann, H. J., van Nes, A., Rocco, R., Pinilla, C., Bruyns, G., 2007, `The Fifth City’, ISUF, TU Delft.

 Research projects

•         2008-2011, Member of the TU-Delft team for the EU funded RUFUS project. Leader: Vincent Nadin, together with Alex Wandl.
•         2011, Applying space syntax analyses on Buiksloterham area, Amsterdam, together with Meta Berghauser Pont and Birgit Hausleitner.
•         2011, Applying space syntax in the decision of a new Rijnland route between A4 and A44 in Rijnland, together with Egbert Stolk and Alex Wandl.
•         2010, Applying space syntax analyses in the strategic plan of Rotterdam Zuid, together with Meta Berghauser Pont and Bardia Maschhoodi.
•         2008, Applying space synyax in the strategic planning of Provincie Noord Holland, together with Egbert Stolk.
•         2005, Politie en Wetenschap: Research money for applying space syntax to research on space and crime. The research in done together with the  criminologist Manuel Lopez, RCM Advies
•         2004, De Vereniging Deltametropool: Research money for analysing and make strategic plans for the Rijnland region.