CITIES

Our urban research division seeks to scale up and refine a portfolio of modelling and simulation tools to uncover neighbourhood-to-city scale system dynamics of energy, microclimate, hydrology, material flows, social and ecological networks. At the same time, we develop innovative modes of co-governance, citizen empowerment, and capacity building that can effectively leverage these tools to co-create just, climate neutral, resource-efficient cities.

Positive energy districts

Sustainable urban water management

Simulating and designing climate-adaptive nature-based solutions

Decentralized environmental governance

Urban scale energy modelling

Urban scale microclimate modelling

Spatial network and experience modelling

From sustainability indicators to urban data science