TSPA

Category: Africa

[:en]Community needs oriented, solar energy powered hubs in rural Rwanda[:]

[:en]Earlier this year TSPA started an exciting partnership with The Pulse and Solarkiosks Solutions. These two Berlin Based companies, together with many other experts, are working towards an inspiring goal to to implement and operate a network of solar-powered rural centers in Rwanda. Each of the E-HUBB will combine fully integrated solar energy systems, retail […]

October 17, 2022
[:en]Structural plans of Mozambique received the Sustainable Cities And Human Settlements Award[:]

[:en]We are honoured and very thankful to receive the Global Human Settlements Award on Planning and Design as part of the Sustainable Cities And Human Settlements Awards. We feel happy to have recognized this important effort to tackle contemporary cities’ issues, such as rapid urbanisation and sustainable development planning.

November 26, 2021
[:en] Structural Plans for Mozambican Towns awarded in the APA ID International Planning Excellence Awards[:]

[:en]We are very happy to share that our project Structural Plans for Mozambican Towns won the Advancing Social Equity Award of the American Planning Association International Planning Excellence Awards. Together with the Liberia Municipal Water Project and the Thompson & Grace Medical City Master Plan in Nigeria, our proposal was considered to be innovative and impactful. Our […]

July 20, 2021
[:en]”The City as a Renewable resource” TSPA’s intervention in the Masterclass at the University of Venice[:]

[:en]Last Friday March 26th, Thomas Stellmach took part of the discussion in the Masterclass The City as a Renewable Resource in the session Project, organised by the University of Venice. After the presentations by Paola Viganò and Günter Vogt, Thomas Stellmach shared the virtual floor with the speakers, Aristide Athanassiadis and Margherita Manfra for a […]

April 7, 2021
[:en]Recommendations for sustainable urbanization in Africa – Thomas Stellmach in the Bundestag[:de]Empfehlungen für nachhaltige Urbanisierung in Afrika – Thomas Stellmach im Bundestag[:ru]Recommendations for sustainable urbanization in Africa – Thomas Stellmach in the Bundestag[:]

[:en] “In my opinion, it is not expedient to try to stop urbanization in Africa. On the contrary, the focus should be on intervening in a steering manner to make it as sustainable as possible.” – Thomas Stellmach at the German Bundestag in late December, where he gave recommendations in the Committee on Economic Cooperation […]

January 7, 2021
[:en]Public Hearing in the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development of the German Bundestag[:de]Öffentliche Anhörung im Ausschuss für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung des Deutschen Bundestages[:]

[:en] There is exciting news: Today, Thomas Stellmach has been invited as an expert to a public hearing in the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development of the German Bundestag.

December 16, 2020
[:en]TSPA Newsletter: 20 out of 20 [:]

[:en]Greetings from TSPA! We are very happy to start the end of the decade busy with very exciting projects and a growing team. We started this year feeling 20/20. Whether in Germany or overseas TSPA explored all of its capacities building climate resiliency, thinking of sustainable solutions, designing the neighbourhoods of the future and planning […]

January 29, 2020
Plano Estrutura Urbana Sussundenga

[:en]Defining a structural plan for a city often is the solution to a resilient and sustainable future, especially in the regions that aim to predict the unpredictable. A structural plan is a framework to guide the development of the area by defining its upcoming demands and identifying key features that will influence the future. As […]

July 9, 2018
Nampula City Development Strategy Framework

[:en]Nampula is Mozambique’s second largest urban centre and considered the ‘capital’ of northern region. It is also one of the economically most dynamic cities of the country due to its location in the centre of Nampula Province – the most populous and prosperous of Mozambique – in the heartland of highly productive agricultural areas, at […]

December 12, 2017
MetroHUB workshop for Kampala & Entebbe in Berlin

In partnership with the government of Uganda, giz, UN-Habitat, and Pedro Ortiz, Thomas of TSPA will facilitate a workshop in Berlin to promote a compact, socially inclusive, integrated and connected system of cities in the Greater Kampala metropolitan region. The MetroHUB workshop approach will combine capacity development in planning, governance and finance aspects and with […]

January 11, 2017
4th German-African Infrastructure Forum

The oceans provide smooth transitions between continents and economies and are essential components of intercontinental trade and global networking. What are the challenges concerning international trade, infrastructure development, and rapid urban growth in Sub-Saharan Africa? During the last years the Africa Association has established the Infrastructure Forum which became a great German-African platform for network […]

December 2, 2016
TSPA at ISU Talks #04: URBAN AFRICA

Thomas Stellmach will be present TSPA’s work in Sub-Saharan Africa of the one-day ISU conference about urban development and urban regeneration strategies within the African context. The ISU talk takes place on Thursday, November 17 at 2pm at TU Braunschweig. See further details and register at sustainableurbanism.de. The other panelists are: Fabienne Hoelzel, Fabulous Urban/ETH […]

October 10, 2016
[:en]TSPA AT THE ISOCARP CONGRESS IN DURBAN[:de]TSPA AUF DEM ISOCARP KONGRESS IN DURBAN[:ru]TSPA на конгрессе ISOCARP в Дурбане[:]

“Cities we Have vs. Cities we Need” was the theme of the 52nd ISOCARP congress, held in Durban, South Africa. TSPA was part of a keynote panel on the implementation of The New Urban Agenda. Benjamin Scheerbarth reflected on the ways private planning offices might be able to implement sustainable strategies in cities. As possible ways forward he offered (1) […]

September 23, 2016
Planning Africa 2016 in Joburg

The 7th Planning Africa Conference – “Planning Africa 2016 : Making Sense of the Future – Disruption and Reinvention” took place in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province on 3-6 July 2016, organised by the South African Planning Institute (SAPI). Thomas presented the paper “UN-Habitat’s Rapid Planning Studio: A Case Study of Integrated Planning for City Extensions in Africa” (download […]

July 6, 2016