Abstracts Archive

Urban areas around the world are increasingly becoming centers of diversity, characterized by the co-existence of people from varied backgrounds, cultures and socioeconomic statuses. Urban diversity is not just a demographic fact but also an asset that contributes to the richness of urban life, econ...

This abstract summarizes a comprehensive methodology for the implementation of digital twins within municipal governments, focusing on enhancing decision-making processes in spatial planning. Recognizing digital twins as innovative solutions, their implementation demands disruptive organizational ch...

Amsterdam has ambitious sustainability policy goals. However, realising the goals remains challenging. Infrastructure projects are a big part of what the city works on and where impact can be made. Therefore, to implement the goals in the infrastructure projects, the Sustainable infrastructure check...

Use of temporary and tactical interventions to fulfil new demand for active travel modes in cities has experienced an explosion in interest from researchers and practitioners. Critically, they are heralded as means by which radical ideas can be implemented quickly and cheaply by municipal government...

Experimentational design for participatory research on food futures: Invitation to join a playful audio-visual quiz followed by a dialogue to think about the role of food consumption in our society. In the context of sustainability, we need imagination to envision that we may not think entirely poss...

In recent decades, there is an increasing realization that growth oriented economic models are harmful for sustained livability of our biosphere. This also holds for cities that continue to attract a growing share of the world population. The paradox of growing cities is that, while offering all kin...

Digital Urban Twins are currently developed in cities around the world to support sustainable and inclusive urban development. To achieve this goal, significant resources are invested to shape such technology. However, looking at some demonstrators and proof-of-concepts, it seems that mere 3D models...

Car dependency leads to a variety of societal problems and challenges, not least environmental ones. Even in countries with high-quality public transport and bike infrastructure, such as the Netherlands, the majority of trips and trip-kilometres are performed by cars (Ton et al., 2020). It is theref...

Introduction: As cities expand and land becomes built over, more rainwater will run off rather than infiltrate or evapo(trans)pirate, increasing the likelihood of rain induced flooding. Climate change further exacerbates the frequency and intensity of rain events and hence the frequency and severity...

Humans can only see a small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum ranging from red to violet. Yet, the world around us is awash with invisible electromagnetic waves, including radio frequency (RF) waves that are used for telecommunication. These RF waves are emitted from cell towers, mobile phones...

Stakeholder participation and risk communication in the monitoring activities to improve the quay walls and bridges of Amsterdam. The municipality of Amsterdam presented the program Quay Walls and Bridges in Amsterdam (QWBA), which aims to provide a framework to improve the current conditions of the...

This dynamic workshop focused on the strategies for value co-creation in Positive Energy Districts. Our session addresses the critical question of how we can design and implement a collaborative framework that identifies and aligns stakeholders' needs, fosters value co-creation, and ensures actionab...

The systemic approach and complexity theory now allow the city to be interpreted as a dynamically complex system in which each element is interacting with the others. This makes it complex to jointly evaluate the phenomena related to the different subsystems that can be identified in the urban syste...

Special Session: Session: 2-3 hrs Attendants: Aimed 100+ WIthin the DIT4TraM project in which AMS, TU Delft and the City of Amsterdam are core partners, a Tradable Mobility Credit Scheme will be tested, through a serious game. As a project team we want to do that with citizens of Amsterdam and other...

The Imperfect Peace of interstitial Spaces in Belfast:- Belfast, Northern Ireland is an imperfect, work-in-progress city that has seen its fair share of conflict over the last few centuries. The most recent conflict, euphemistically dubbed ‘The Troubles’, divided Belfast’s urban landscape alon...

Cities in the twenty-first century are increasingly confronted with challenges to incorporate sustainable urban design in light of pressing environmental concerns. The presented project focuses on the clash between new development opportunities and the increasing concerns regarding the sustainabilit...

By taking a closer look at the assumptions and methods driving the current citizen participation paradigm, this paper addresses the risk of tokenistic involvement of citizens and other stakeholders in approaches such as co-design and citizen science. These participatory processes are highly demandin...

Amsterdam Zuidas Even though the definition of 'innovation districts' leaves room for different interpretations, we see that many innovation districts have a fairly modernist spatial layout. When we think of Paris La Defense, Canary Wharf London or Amsterdam Zuidas, we don’t think of messy cities....

Due to climate change, rising temperatures lead to more extreme heat stress in urban areas. Last summer, there were poignant images of people looking for shade in cities. Trees are effective measures to provide shade and decrease the perceived temperature. However, trees cannot grow in healthy condi...

This presentation explores the concept of diversity as a defining characteristic of cities and suggests that urban spaces tend to undergo cycles of growth and diversification. The research draws on the work of Jane Jacobs, which is expanded into a fully reproducible framework to study urban diversit...

The transition towards more sustainable food systems is essential for achieving climate targets and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Achieving goal 12, responsible consumption and production, in particular, will require changes in consumer behavior, the adoption of sustainable practices by ...

Vertical farming presents an efficient crop cultivation system with fully controlled environmental conditions, demonstrating high productivity, high efficiency in land, water and material requirements compared to traditional methods. This makes it a promising solution for localized food production i...

Temporary placemaking through adaptive reuse is an evolving urban practice, originally stemming from informal occupations and progressively becoming more integrated into the planning and management of temporary unused properties. It arises through the organization of communities, more or less sponta...

Adolescence is a developmental phase during which not only the social, but also the food environment rapidly changes. Since adolescents also have a large capability of flexible adoption to change, we explored if a participatory action research approach could contribute to reshaping adolescents’ fo...

Trees provide essential ecosystem services in the urban environment. From a noise pollution perspective, trees disperse and scatter sound waves in street canyons and urban courtyards. A handful of studies have been published on the sound attenuating effects of trees, or tree belts, in street canyons...

Cities have a great influence on encouraging healthier lifestyles, due to 75% of the European population living in cities (WHO Regional Office for Europe 2022). Food tends to be disregarded or forgotten when discussing healthy cities. Even though it is a valid question regarding the predicted influx...

Digital tools potentially improve interaction between planners and citizens, reduce barriers to participation, encouraging creativity and expression (Wilson and Tewdwr-Jones, 2019) and promoting more sustainable urbanization (Hasler et al., 2017). However, this can only be an improvement if citizens...

Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast had their urban landscapes deeply molded by the pervasive influence of the oil industry over the past decades. As shifts in economic and environmental paradigms hinted at the potential decline of the oil industry, an urgent question arose: How should the regi...

The theme of the conference, and the concepts used, echoes the academic study of cities as complex systems. Whether urban designers are dealing with challenges like circularity, climate adaptation or inclusion – all these topics require an understanding of complex systems. Where academics refer to...

The Marineterrein Amsterdam is a test area and city quarter for learning, working and living in a liveable city. In the special and flexible approach, the test area is gradually developing into a city quarter where there is room for open innovation, special forms of living, sports, recreation and gr...