Abstracts Archive

The decision-making process in adaptive reuse projects is often complex, involving multiple and conflicting criteria, and diverse stakeholders. To deal with such complexity, the alternatives being evaluated by these stakeholders have been inadvertently reduced to two extremes: either a broad scope, ...

This project seeks to investigate dynamics of normal food consumption on a societal level to inform the governance of transformations and a theory of normalization. To do so, it considers how practices of eating out have evolved over time, how they are being performed and how they are embedded withi...

In urban design, outdoor comfort is intricately linked to the overall sensory perception, or sense-scape, of the spatial realm, which can be described through human perception and physical metrics. Seen through a physical lens, outdoor comfort relates to the interplay between environmental factors s...

Workshop proposal: From the application of smart technologies by municipalities to community-led initiatives for sustainable practices, conflicting perspectives on a 'good life' in the city emerge. This workshop session posits that frictions and controversies are essential democratic prerequisites f...

The ‘We are the Sensors' workshop, hosted by Senseable Amsterdam Lab (SAL) and RWTH Aachen University in cooperation with Climateflux, aims to explore the intersection of urban comfort, citizen science, and cutting-edge sensing technologies. This workshop provides a unique platform to engage with ...

Due to climate change, urban heat-stress is increasingly becoming a risk to health, the livability and accessibility of public spaces (Klok & Kluck, 2018). Trees are often mentioned as best measures to solve heat-stress by providing cool spots or routes (Gromke et al., 2015; Spanjar et al., 2022). H...

Over the last few years, Witteveen+Bos has extended its knowledge on pedestrian oriented spatial design. One of the tools that we have developed is called the “loopmonitor” (EN: Pedestrian Traffic Monitor). With this tool we use spatial data to generate a model that can estimate pedestrian inten...

All talk of the future contains faster chips, more bandwidth, higher resolutions, cheaper memory, more immersiveness, smarter AI. In short; The future is more of Moore's Law. We explored several pathways in which the future of digital technology looks differently. Either because we collectively woul...

Efficient urban governance requires estimating the count of people on the move. This helps maintain real-time safety and deploy any interventions if necessary. For example, depending upon the information regarding the number of pedestrians in a busy market street, the authorities may prohibit vehicu...

My research aims to embed the Randstad to the postmodernist model of cities by the Los Angeles School. I compare the characteristics of LA and the Randstad, arguing that the Randstad is a mutation of the model. My arguments land on perspectives such as geographical structure, production regime, natu...

This paper provides an overview of urban research on noise, glare, heat, and air quality, coverinboth individual domains and combined analyses. It is aimed at scholars in the field of built environment research, as well as urban designers and policy makers in metropolitan areas. Metropolitan issues ...

According to the latest IPCC reports heat waves will increase in both intensity and frequency. Due to the physical nature of cities, they are particularly vulnerable to this increase in heat. Urban heat island (UHI) effect analysis often relies on satellite imagery, which gives a planar representati...

There is an ongoing open debate about achieving sustainable development (SD) within planetary boundaries. In this context, it is unsurprising to question the role of urban areas in speeding up an SD. The unstoppable urbanization process has been accompanied by looking at cities as places with higher...

The unfolding lives of the current youth generation will both track and influence how food consumption evolves into the future. As youth have a considerable stake in the course of food system transformations there is a growing call to pay more attention to their engagements with food environments. P...

Workshop proposal for AMS conference by The Green Village For the AMS Conference: Reinventing the City, scheduled for April 23rd-25th, 2024 we want to propose the workshop: biobased building - from testing ground to practice. In this engaging session, we aim to bring together professionals from the ...

In this workshop, we want to bring together people who work on 'Measuring what Matters', such as the City doughnut, Broader Welfare and Sustainable Development goals to learn more about 1) the (dis)advantages of certain approaches; 2) lessons learned on applying it at the city level; 3) how to creat...

This workshop aims to bring the issue of affordability and accessibility (back) into discussions on the sustainable further development of middle European cities. It is hard, maybe even impossible to miss current discussions on the sustainable further development of our built environment. Every mayo...

Natural systems are one of the most important elements that form the framework of the city, yet the last to be considered when designing public spaces. Amid global warming, the ever-intimate and highly complex relationship between green infrastructure and humans is gaining importance. Trees, which f...

In this presentation we introduce UD-R, a robot that assists investors and architects to understand and apply urban diversity mapping and quantitative cultural analysis in urban space. The bot is trained in particular to explain new research concepts such as "urban diversity mapping" or "iso-lex". I...

Cities have played a central role in shaping the last century’s technological and economic acceleration. The share of individuals living in urban areas has itself accelerated, from 10% in the 1910s to a projected level of 68% by 2050. This development means cities will increasingly shape psycholog...

Scientific paper presentation: Due to rapid urbanization and economic development in China, cities have experienced a massive influx of migrants from other parts of China since the late 20th century, leading to the emergence of urban villages characterized by informal settlement of diverse populatio...

The scarcity or lack of access to essential services at the local and neighbourhood levels in cities can result in significant spatial inequalities, as some areas and their residents can deal with disadvantages and a lower quality of daily life. In particular, the spatial distribution and the variet...

he workshop aims to cultivate a community of professionals, academics, and policy makers interested in the convergence of Data, Carbon, Energy and Stations. Its primary objective is to collaboratively design a digital platform to visualize data pertaining to the carbon footprint of stations and thei...