Eco-Urban Futures: A More-than-human Approach to Multi-Agent Simulation for the Digital Twin of Urban Forests

Urban forests are now digitalized as smart green infrastructures to mitigate environmental change. Cities are proactively planting and replacing trees considering their future ecosystem benefits, such as carbon sequestration, urban heat reduction, and water retention. Digital twin simulation is a key technology enabling this particular mode of...

Growing With Cooler Green: To create a climate mitigating city through forest urbanism

The urban heat island effect refers to increased temperatures in highly developed urban areas and has negative impact for human activities and the social environment. This project aims to address this effect by integrating urban forests into the cityscape, while enhancing the living experience of residents.<br/><br/>The project focuses on...

The Future of the Urban Forest: Exploring the systemic granularity of the urban green domain to navigate towards a new paradigm

With nearly 70% of people living in cities by 2050 (United Nations, 2018), our urban environments are being put to the test, with more severe and frequent heat waves, droughts, floods, ongoing biodiversity loss, air pollution, and land subsidence. To sustain and increase the liveability and climate resilience of cities, the design and...

A walled garden in Brussels: Ambiguity as the foundation for coexistence in the European quarter in Brussels

"Brussels was never destroyed by the wars, but rather by its own people" these words of Victor Bourgouis show the destructive vision of social and cultural spaces in Brussels. The city's vision of urban development is based on top-down politics, fed by the desire to be modern. This affection leads to the non-identification and displacement of...

Nature was never far away: Experiencing the urban forest through realms of living, moving and visiting

A guide for the landscape architectural design of an urban forest that helps create realms of experience in order to make people more aware of our connection to nature.<br/><br/>The imbalance between how we live and how the natural world around us works leads to a disconnected relationship with nature. Because of this many people see nature that...

Green Bond Amsterdam-Noord: Re-organize urban forest for future garden city

In recent years, population ageing is becoming more and more of a challenge for cities to prepare for. Improving facilities for an all-age-friendly city can provide a healthy and supportive life for both the young and the old living in cities. One of the cities of interest in this is Amsterdam. Amsterdam has been exploring sustainable and...