Han Meyer

Professor of Urban Design at Delft University of Technology. His main focus in research and teaching is on the fundaments of urbanism and on ‘Delta Urbanism’, which pays special attention to the search of a new balance between urbanization processes and climate change in vulnerable deltaic territories. He combines academic research into urban development in deltaic regions with a role as advisor of the Dutch National Delta Program (2010–2015), the Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan (2011–2013), the Lisbon Climate Change Research Program of the University of Lisbon (2010–2013) and the Urban Water Strategy Workshop of the City of Kaohsiung (Taiwan 2012). He published many articles and books on ‘Delta Urbanism’. Recent books are Urbanizing Deltas in Transition (co-edited with Steffen Nijhuis Amsterdam Techne Press, 2014) and The State of the Delta. Engineering, urban development and nation building in the Netherlands (VanTilt 2017).