Broadened inclusiveness for urban renewal: A spatial design contributing to ecological justice for Carnisse. Rotterdam

The complex relationship between humans and the natural world is still visible in 2023s urban planning: a city is a place for humans, and nature gives space to all non-human species. The anthropocentric perspective within the urban environment puts humans above non-human nature. This is also the case within urban renewal in the Netherlands,...

Reconnect Green and Blue Highways of Nature Flows: A new urban landscape for renewable energy systems and biodiversity in Rotterdam

Renewable energy is beneficial to human life. According to the International Renewable Energy Agency, renewable energy provides not only environmental benefits but also societal advantages, namely lower carbon emissions/ reducing air pollution and employment. However, these systems require a substantial scale of infrastructures which take up...

Rethinking the power of water - creating spatial solutions to integrate flood adaptation and renewable energy systems in sustainable urban delta development

An Urban Heart of Rotterdam South

Efficient urban planning in new energy era: The approach of urban renewal by premise of large-scale GHG reduction through a case study in Rotterdam

Introduction There is almost unanimous agreement among scientists that climate change is a fact. Burning fossil fuels as the conventional energy sources are the problem of global warming. Nowadays energy and climate are like two coin sides??problems, are confronting knotty conditions especially lying on economic dependency on fossil fuels and...