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Streetware: Urban Computing Interfaces to Enhance Citizen Engagement Hasselt University

As our urban environment is hosting an increasing number of isolated interactions between people through their individual mobile devices, the emergence of the city's identity through the movements and interactions of its inhabitants becomes severely affected. At the same time, the latest developments in networking and sensing technologies offer the opportunity for new forms of physical interfaces that facilitate interactions between people, or ...

Re-framing urban polycentricity: conceptualising, comparing, and tool-building KU Leuven

Ben Derudder

Public Governance Institute

The overall objective of this project is to significantly innovate the scientific literature on ‘urban polycentricity’. The general idea underlying urban polycentricity is fairly straightforward: the term is used to refer to territories that have multiple, proximately located (sub)centers and are characterized by balanced development. This general idea is, however, also vague and arguably at the root of much confusion. The urban ...

Comparing technology cultures in urban DR Congo (1960-present): Kinshasa, Kikwit and Lubumbashi. KU Leuven

Katrien Pype

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

The project aims at establishing a team of researchers who study the ways in which technological infrastructures have been co-producing the post-colonial society in three cities in the Democratic Republic in Congo (1960-present), Kinshasa, Kikwit and Lubumbashi. The team (PI, 2 PhD students, 2 post-docs and 2 senior scholars) will carry out ethnographic case studies in the domains of communication (Kinshasa), health (Kikwit) and energy ...

Mapping urban composition and green infrastructure using remote sensing in support of urban ecosystem service assessment KU Leuven

Ben Somers

Division of Forest, Nature and Landscape

Urbanization presents one of the major challenges to humankind in the current century. Our cities are true drivers of global environmental change, but at the same time also represent the most susceptible areas to be suffering from the local impacts of these ongoing changes (e.g. through heat waves, flooding and air pollution). Sustainable urban management and development therefore focuses on safeguarding the local quality of life by reducing ...

Urban ReLeaf : Citizen-powered data ecosystems for inclusive and green urban transitions Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Laura Temmerman, Dorottya Varga, Carina Veeckman, Ilse Marien

Institute of Communications and Computer Systems, European Commission, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences and Solvay Business School, Studies in Media, Innovation and Technology, Communication Sciences

Urban ReLeaf is an action-oriented mission to advance citizen-powered science as a central resource for inclusive urban green planningin support of local policy making, European strategies and monitoring systems (e.g., the Green Deal, Copernicus), and global effortssuch as the SDGs (e.g., Target 11.7) and GEOSS. The project will: (i) assess current urban greening policy processes within six Europeancities and co-create solutions that use citizen ...

A Virtual Environment for the Analysis and Evaluation of Alternative Urban Development Projects for the Brussels Capital Region KU Leuven

Johan Verbeke

Architecture, Sint-Lucas Brussels and Ghent Campuses, Urban Design, Urbanism, Landscape and Planning

This project focuses on the design and development of a platform for the deliberation of the existing alternative urban development projects prepared for Brussels. The motivations for this study were:

1) The need for integrated planning environments for deliberation and participation due to the problematic urban situation in Brussels: During the last century, a combination of urban policies caused the destruction of architectural ...

The Role of Data Visualization in Urban Studies KU Leuven

Andrew Vande Moere

Architecture and Design

As large volumes of data become increasingly available, new opportunities arise to harness their potential for urban studies. Data visualization is vital for this purpose, particularly in tackling fuzzy problems that require an explorative process of discovery to re-frame. This research investigates how data visualization can be used to harness big data for domain specific challenges in urban studies. To address this question, I demonstrate ...

Improved CFD modelling of pollutant dispersion in urban environments for the assessment of air purification strategies. University of Antwerp

Siegfried Denys

Sustainable Energy, Air and Water Technology (DuEL)

Air pollution is a serious problem. Flemish governmental policies have been put into action to lower pollutant concentrations. Planned measures are e.g. lowering traffic emissions and innovative building configurations to enhance natural ventilation in urban environments. Since these measures are obviously very costly and the health cost of air pollution is enormous (estimated as € 8 billion per year in Belgium), assessing the effectiveness of ...

Improved CFD modelling of pollutant dispersion in urban environments for the assessment of air purification strategies. University of Antwerp

Siegfried Denys

Sustainable Energy, Air and Water Technology (DuEL)

GIStorical Antwerp II. The historical city as empirical lab for urban studies using high-resolution social maps. University of Antwerp

Tim Soens

Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change, Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City, Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS), Society and Environment, Centre for Urban History

In a time of rapid urbanization solid long-term perspectives on the many environmental, social, economic or political challenges of urbanity are urgently needed. Uniting urban history, sociology, environmental studies and digital humanities, GIStorical Antwerp II turns the historical city into a digital lab which provides an answer to this need. For 8 snapshots between 1584 and 1984 it offers dynamic social maps including every household in the ...