Floris Boogaard elaborated in his presentation on blue-green infrastructure solutions in the Netherlands, aimed at enhancing climate resilience. His presentation covered aspects such as the history, current situation, design, maintenance, financing, and citizen participation in these infrastructure projects. …

‘Dreaming of Modernism, a strategic vision for Amsterdam Southeast’ is a reflection and a looking forward in the tradition of urban planning, starting from a fascination for the Bijlmer, as Amsterdam Southeast is commonly known, as the most extensive and youngest urban expansion of the last century. …

De Rotte is the name giver of Rotterdam, but this river keeps a low profile in the identity and present-day urban planning of the city. By elevating the Rotte as a backbone for the development of Rotterdam north, goals, and ambitions in the field of water management, ecology, urban revitalization, and …

This presentation presented 2 examples of analysing and visualisations of ClimateScan platform data. Analysing the open-source Change Adaptation Platform ClimateScan shows that surface bio filtration is the category with most uploads, which is the case in Riga (started green infrastructure around 2020) …

Habitat fragmentation caused by urbanization and climate change are important drivers of biodiversity decline and ecosystem degradation (McKinney, 2002). Governmental inaction results in cascade effects, such as the extinction of species and the weakening of ecosystem services that citizens depend on. …

Stedelijke natuurversterking is bij uitstek een thema dat door de schalen heen moet worden bekeken. Van pocket park en gevelbekleding tot stedelijke groenstructuur, de biodiversiteit komt het beste tot bloei door samenhang. In het SIA-project Natuurinclusieve Gebiedsontwikkeling onderzochten vier hogescholen …

Pergola’s worden steeds vaker genoemd als klimaatadaptieve maatregel in (wetenschappelijke) publicaties maar komen nog nauwelijks voor in het Nederlands straatbeeld. Op de Hogeschool van Amsterdam is een prototype van een stadspergola gebouwd om te onderzoeken hoe daar verandering in te brengen.

Post-war urban neighbourhoods in industrialised countries have been shown to negatively affect the lifestyles of their residents due to their design. This study aims at developing an empirical procedure to select locations to be redesigned and the determinants of health at stake in these locations, with …

Blue-green roofs have been utilized and studied for their enhanced water storage capacity compared to conventional roofs or extensive green roofs. Nonetheless, research about the thermal effect of blue-green roofs is lacking. The goal of this research is to study the thermal effect of blue-green roofs …