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Improving urban land-cover parametrization in regional climate models: The role of urban aerodynamic, thermal and radiative properties, anthropogenic heat and water retention KU Leuven
Outdoor thermal comfort is essential to our health and that of the environment. For the last 200 years, the global population has increased sevenfold resulting in a strong urban expansion. Consequential changes in the landscape have lead to drastic climate modifications, which ranks among the most significant human impacts on the environment. Most remarkable is that cities are exposed to higher air temperatures than those in the natural ...
Mapping urban composition and green infrastructure using remote sensing in support of urban ecosystem service assessment KU Leuven
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 ...
The implementation of biofiltration systems, rainwater tanks and urban irrigation in a single-layer urban canopy model KU Leuven
Urban vegetation is generally considered as a key tool to modify the urban energy balance through enhanced evapotranspiration (ET). Given that vegetation is most effective when it is healthy, stormwater harvesting and retention strategies (such as water sensitive urban design) could be used to support vegetation and promote ET. This study presents the implementation of a vegetated lined bio-filtration system (BFS) combined with a rainwater tank ...
Urban industries and the production of urban form University of Antwerp
The proposed paper aspires to provide a typomorphological analysis of patrimony of industrial activity in the urban fabric of a productive hotspot of the Brussels Capital Region. The research fits within a larger PhD-track on the sustainable retrofit of such productive activities in this region. Due to zoning policies and increasing real estate pressure on urban land, a major part of the space-extensive productive activities has disappeared from ...
Pathway using WUDAPT's Digital Synthetic City tool towards generating urban canopy parameters for multi-scale urban atmospheric modeling Ghent University KU Leuven
The WUDAPT (World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools project goal is to capture consistent information on urban form and function for cities worldwide that can support urban weather, climate, hydrology and air quality modeling. These data are provided as urban canopy parameters (UCPs) as used by weather, climate and air quality models to simulate the effects of urban surfaces on the overlying atmosphere. Information is stored with different ...
Urban landscape design exercises in urban metabolism: reconnecting with Central Limburg’s regenerative resource landscape KU Leuven
The following design research uses urban landscape design to attempt to reframe sustainable resource management. Urban metabolism projects generally originate in industrial ecology, emphasizing performance-oriented technical and entrepreneurial approaches. However, industrial ecology approaches experience difficulties in making meaningful connections to social, economic and spatial contexts. Building on landscape architecture analysis and design ...
Urban industries and the production of space: a typomorphological analysis of the mixed urban fabric around the historical national road Jetsesteenweg in Brussels, Belgium University of Antwerp KU Leuven
From the second half of the twentieth century, industries have moved from locations in urban areas to the monofunctional fringe due to zoning policies and rising real estate prices. More recently, high unemployment rates, lengthy commuting journeys and economic dependability have re-oriented the urban planning agenda towards the qualitative retrofit of small-scale production in vital inner-city areas. However, this reveals that designers seem to ...
Mapping form and function in urban areas: An approach based on urban metrics and continuous impervious surface data KU Leuven
Developing effective urban planning strategies and monitoring their spatial impact requires morphological and functional land-use maps showing the ongoing urban growth processes. Medium spatial resolution remote sensing images (e.g. Landsat, SPOT-HRV) are a useful data source for creating such maps as they have been regularly available since the early 1970s. While land use is linked to socio-economic activities and can therefore not be directly ...
Neoliberal Urban Movements? A Geography of Conflict and Mobilisation over Urban Renaissance in Antwerp, Belgium KU Leuven
This chapter maps new forms of contentious mobilisation around neoliberal urban policies in Antwerp, Belgium. Neoliberal urban policies are confronted with the uneasy task to match local competitiveness with collective provision and so-cial cohesion. The upgrading of the built environment offers the opportunity to in-tegrate both aspirations, but simultaneously provides people with a concrete focus for mobilisation. Building on Urban Social ...