Publications


Editor Journal of Delta Urbanism. TU Delft Open
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Guest Editor TU Delft DeltaLinks – Issue: Research by Design


Guest Editor Water Journal MDPI – Special Issue: Green Infrastructures for Urban Water System: Balance between Cities and Nature

Publications

—Peer-reviewed journals (blinded review)

van der Meulen, Geert J. M., Mishra, G., van Dorst, M., Iyer, M., Bacchin, T.K. (2023). Reviewing Historic
Urban Water Transitions to Advance Water-Sensitive Urban Design for Bhuj, India. Land 12, no. 10: 1938.
https://doi.org/10.3390/land12101938

Hädrich Silva, R., Zwarteveen, M., Stead, D. & Bacchin, T.K. Bringing Ecological Urbanism and Urban
Political Ecology to Transformative Visions of Water Sensitivity in Cities. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/
abstract=4393997 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4393997 (forthcoming)  (forthcoming)

van der Meulen, G. J., van Dorst, M. J., & Bacchin, T. K. (2023). Water sensitivity and context specificity–
concept and context in Water-Sensitive Urban Design for secondary cities. Urban Water Journal, 20(1), 15-25.

Bacchin, T.K. & Recubenis Sanchis, I. (2022) Soil, Planning and Climatic Crisis in the Dutch Upper Delta. OASE
Journal for Architecture, (110).

Delibas, M., Tezer, A. & Bacchin, T.K. (2021). Towards embedding soil ecosystem services in spatial planning.
Cities, 113, p.103-150.

Lafleur, F., Recubenis, I. and Bacchin, T.K. (2020). On Atmosphere, Water and Soil. Journal of Delta Urbanism,
1(1).

van der Meulen, G., Leung, R., Storms, J., Bensi, N.S., Bacchin, T.K., Timmermans, J., Hooimeijer, F. and van
Boxel, E. (2020). On Sea Level Rise. Journal of Delta Urbanism, 1(1).

Sitzenfrei, R., Kleidorfer, M., Bach, P.M. and Bacchin, T.K. (2020). Green Infrastructures for Urban Water
System: Balance between Cities and Nature.

Ashley, R.M., Gersonius, B., Digman, C., Horton, B., Bacchin, T.K., Smith, B., Shaffer, P. and Baylis, A., (2018).
Demonstrating and monetizing the multiple benefits from using SuDS. Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built
Environment, 4(2), p.05017008.

Dai, W., Sun, D.Y., Meyer, H., Bacchin, T.K. (2018). Towards Resilience: The Research on Resilient Delta Urban
Planning from International Perspective. Urban Planning International. DOI: 10.22217/upi.2017.384

Zischg, J., Goncalves, M.L., Bacchin, T.K., Leonhardt, G., Viklander, M., van Timmeren, A., Rauch, W. and
Sitzenfrei, R. (2017). Info-Gap robustness pathway method for transitioning of urban drainage systems under
deep uncertainties. Water Science and Technology, 76(5), pp.1272-1281.

Dai, W., Sun, Y., Meyer, H., Bacchin, T.K. (2017). Resilient Planning of Delta Cities under Climate Change. City
Planning Review, 41(12), 26-34.

—Peer-reviewed journals (open review)

Hooimeijer, F. L. (Author), & Kuzniecow Bacchin, T. (Author). (2023). Redesigning Deltas design study and a
manifesto for the ‘new Dutch delta’. Web publication/site, Flows. https://flowsplatform.nl/#/redesigning-deltas-
design-study-and-a-manifesto-for-a--new-dutch-delta--1677063227312________

Deltalinks - Research by Design (2022) Editor

Hooimeijer, F. Bacchin, T.K., and Kothuis, B.B. (2021). Longue Duree. Journal of Delta Urbanism, Vol.2

La Fleur, F., Recubenis Sanches, I., Bacchin, T.K. (2021) Land use systems, transcalarity and transformative
design as critical research & design tools. TU Delft DeltaLinks, vol. 2021, no. June.

Timmermans, J., Storms, J., van Loon, J., Bacchin, T.K., Alvarez Antolinez, J.A., van Oort, F., Koreman, K.
(2021) Transform by design. TU Delft DeltaLinks, vol. 2021, no. June.

Bacchin, T.K., Hooimeijer, F. and Kothuis, B.B. (2020). Delta Urbanism, Premises. Journal of Delta Urbanism,
Vol.1

Hooimeijer, FL, Bacchin, T.K. & Rizzetto, F. (2020). Ecosystem Participation in Arid Environments, TU Delft
DeltaLinks, vol. 2020, no. October.

van der Meulen, G., Bacchin, T.K., Timmermans, J.. and Zevenbergen, C. (2018). New Netherlands: from de
Hoge Berg to Gaasterland, TU Delft DeltaLinks, vol. 2018, no. July.

Meyer, H, Peters, R, Bacchin, T.K., Hooimeijer, F & Nijhuis, S. (2016). A plea for putting the issue of Urbanizing
Deltas on the New Urban Agenda, UN Habitat III. Delta Alliance.

—Books and book chapters

edited volume

Bacchin, T.K. (2024 forthcoming). The North Sea as a Project. b-r-u-n-o Publisher. Venice, 2024.

Khosravi, H. Bacchin, T.K., LaFleur, F. (2019). Aesthetics and Politics of Logistics. Humboldt Books. Milan,
2019. ︎︎︎https://www.humboldtbooks.com/en/book/aesthetics-and-politics-of-logistics
︎︎︎https://www.abitare.it/en/research/publications/2020/03/06/book-explores-the-dark-side-of-logistics/

book chapters

Bacchin, T.K. (2023). Mapping Urban Metabolism  In: Dooghe, D., Frijters, E., Edens, C., Ponte, M., van Spaandonk, T., de Vries, C., van Zwieten, J. (editors). The City as a System. Metabolic Design for New Urban Forms and Functions. Trancity* VALIZ. Future Urban Regions, Amsterdam, 2023


Bacchin, T.K. (2023). Geographies of Time and Radical Ecologies of Space. Territories of Urbanisation: a
relational approach to the reading of Life, Land, Water, and Air In: Pisano, C. & Zacariotto, G. (editors). Urbanistic
Projects. Next generational paths: A European Perspective. Quodlibet Studio - Città e paesaggio. Saggi.
Macerata, 2023


Wei, D., Meyer, H., & Bacchin, T. K. (2023). Spatial Dynamics in the Pearl River Delta and Development
Strategies. In Adaptive Urban Transformation: Urban Landscape Dynamics, Regional Design and Territorial
Governance in the Pearl River Delta, China (pp. 37-59). Cham: Springer International Publishing. ︎︎︎https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-89828-1


Bacchin, T.K. (2023). In a Fluid Ground, if Everything is Moving, What are Your Anchor Points? In: Aslaug
Lund, A., Sengupta Carstensen, J. (editors). Critical Coast, Coastal Imaginaries. The Danish Architectural Press.
Copenhagen, 2023



Bacchin, T.K. (2020). North Sea Landscapes of Coexistence as a model for further research. In: Couling, N.R.
and Hein, C.M., (editors). The Urbanisation of the Sea: From Concepts and Analysis to Design. NAi Publishers,
Rotterdam, 2020 ︎︎︎https://books.bk.tudelft.nl/index.php/press/catalog/book/778


Iablonovski, G., Bacchin, T.K. (2019) Infraestrutura Polivalente para Porto Alegre. In: Revitalização de rios
urbanos no Brasil. Porto, M.; Alencar, J.; Theodoro, H.D. (Editors). Editora D’Plácido, 2019


Bacchin, T. K. (2013) Rhine Delta. In: Towards an Atlas of the European Delta Landscape, edited by Tosi, M.C.
ListLab, Treviso, 2013


Schuetze, T., Bacchin, T.K. (2011) The Rhine delta – challenges and solutions for future developments. In: M. C.
Tosi. Delta del Po 2010. Papiroz, Rijswijk, NL, 2011

—Selected recent Conference proceedings/ contributions

Zacariotto, G., Bacchin, T.K., Nickayin, S., Longo, A. (2023) A Costal Atlas: Prelude to a Territorial Vision.
European Urban Research Association, Reykjavík, 22-24 June 2023.

Di Gioia, L., Bacchin, T.K., & Sepulveda, D. (2022) Hydropower at the Frontier of Urbanisation: Mediating
Cosmovisions and the Climate Crisis in the Brazilian Amazon. 15th Conference of the International Forum of
Urbanism, Bourdeaux, FR, June 29 - July 1, 2022 [Best Paper - Track 3 Comparative approaches to wetlands]

van der Meulen, G. J., Bacchin, T.K. & van Dorst, M. J. (2022) Hydrocultural dimension in Water-Sensitive
Urban Design for Kozhikode, India. 15th Conference of the International Forum of Urbanism, Bourdeaux, FR,
June 29 - July 1, 2022

Hädrich Silva, R., Stead, D., Zwarteveen, M., & Bacchin, T.K. (2022). Making water cultures globally
mobile: how knowledge travels between The Netherlands and India through water sensitive urban design. 15th
Conference of the International Forum of Urbanism, Bourdeaux, FR, June 29 - July 1, 2022

Hädrich Silva, R., Stead, D., Zwarteveen, M., & Kuzniecow Bacchin, T. (2021). Bridging Ecological Urbanism
and Urban Political Ecology for a new vision of Water Sensitivity in cities. The Evolving Scholar, 1. https://doi.
org/10.24404/61768f431fcdc60008496fff. [Best Paper - Track 3 Political ecology, adaptive and transformative
framework] 

Bacchin, T.K. and Calabrese, L. Amplified Nature: Arctic. ECLAS European Council of Landscape
Architecture Schools 2021 ‘Stop and Think’ conference. Session: (Un)certain lines. Coastal and riverine
landscapes. September 13 - 15, 2021.

Bacchin, T.K., LaFleur, F., Ashley, R. (2018). Next Generation Infrastructure Design under Conditions of
Extremes. 54th ISOCARP Congress. Bodø, Norway. 1-5 October 2018.

Hooimeijer, F., Bacchin, T.K., and Ryu, M. (2018). Understanding the Urban Water Infrastructure as an
historically hybrid construction. IPHS – International Planning History Conference. Yokohama, Japan.15-19 July
2018.

Krishnan, S., Bacchin, T.K., Stolk, E. The Middle Ground: Spatial Planning Under Uncertainty (2018).
Infrastructure Resilience Conference 2018. ETH Zurich, 14-16 February 2018, Zurich, CZ.

Bacchin, T.K., Ashley, R., van Timmeren, A., laFleur, F., Blecken, G., Viklander, M. (2017) Green/blue
infrastructure design: an advanced spatio-temporal model. 14th International Conference on Urban Drainage,
1-15 September 2017, Prague, Czech Republic.

Ashley, R., Horton, B., Digman, C., Gersonius, B., Shaffer, P., Baylis, A., Bacchin, T.K. (2017). It’s not drainage
any more; it’s too valuable. 14th International Conference on Urban Drainage, 1-15 September 2017, Prague,
Czech Republic.

Bacchin, T. K., Ashley, R. M., Blecken, G-T., Viklander M, Gersonius, B., van Timmeren (2016). Green-
blue Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities: Innovative Socio-technical Solutions Bringing Multifunctional Value.
Novatech International Conference on Planning & Technologies for Sustainable Urban Water Management.
Lyon, France, 28 June-1 July 2016.

Bacchin, T. K., Ashley, R. M., Blecken, G-T., Viklander M, Gersonius, B. van Timmeren (2016). Green-blue
Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities: Design Process Innovation Bringing Multifunctional Value. International
Low Impact Development Conference. Beijing, China, 26-29 June 2016.

Bacchin, T.K., Ashley, R., Sijmons, D., Zevenbergen, C., van Timmeren, A. (2016). Urban landscape
infrastructure design in water sensitive cities. International Water Association. World Water Congress. Theme:
“Nature improves water quality and saves money”. Brisbane, Australia, 8-13 October 2016.

Ashley, R. M., Bacchin, T. K., Blecken, G-T., Viklander M, Gersonius, B. (2016). Green-Blue Infrastructure
Design: A Multifunctional Value Approach. International Water Association. World Water Congress. Theme:
“Nature improves water quality and saves money”. Brisbane, Australia, 8-13 October 2016.

Meyer, H., Peters, R., Bacchin, T., Hooimeijer, F., & Nijhuis, S. (2016). A plea for putting the issue of Urbanizing
Deltas on the New Urban Agenda. In 17th IPHS Conference Proceedings (pp. 1-17).

 Mair, M., Zischg, J., Bacchin, T.K., Sitzenfrei, R., Kleidorfer, M., Rauch,W. (2016). Interactive and web-based
modelling of LID technologies. CCWI Conference - Computing and Control for the Water Industry. Amsterdam,
the Netherlands, 7-9 November 2016.

Zischg, J., Bacchin, T.K., Sitzenfrei, R., Kleidorfer, M., Rauch,W. (2016). Info-gap robustness analysis and cost
comparison of urban drainage strategies using “grey” and “green” infrastructures. CCWI Conference -
Computing and Control for the Water Industry. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 7-9 November 2016.

Bacchin, T.K.; Hooimeijer, F. (2015). Recalibrating infrastructure through subsurface and surface system
design: the role of technical heritage in designing green/blue cities. International conference on Water,
Megacities and global change 2015 December 1st - 4th 2015 at UNESCO HQ - Paris – France.

Bacchin, T.K., Ashley, R., van Timmeren, A., R., Rauch, W., Viklander, M. (2015). Projecting alternative
futures under depth uncertainties, the case of Kiruna, Sweden. Architecture and Resilience on a Human Scale
Conference. 10-12 September, University of Sheffield, School of Architecture, UK.

Leonhardt, G., Bacchin, T. K., Ashley, R., Rauch, W., van Timmeren, A., Viklander, M. (2015). Relocating a
city – challenges and opportunities for the transition of the water infrastructure in Kiruna, Sweden. 10th IWA/
IAHR International Urban Drainage Modelling Conference. 20-23 September 2015, Quebéc, Canada.

Bacchin, T.K., Ashley, R., Sijmons, D., Zevenbergen, C., van Timmeren, A. (2014). Green-blue multifunctional
infrastructure: a new approach to urban landscape system design. 13th International Conference on Urban
Drainage, 7-12 September 2014, Sarawak, Malaysia