On the 12th of February 2020, the national newspaper Volkskrant published an interview with Sven Stremke on high-density energy landscapes and energy transition in Amsterdam. Access the full interview (in Dutch) here. Figure: Urban energy landscape with multiple functions (Van Heeswijk and Stremke,...
Read More
December 12, Sven Stremke gave a keynote during the Science for the City event jointly organized by Pakhuis de Zwijger and the AMS institute. The sixth edition of this series – Energy and Spatial Change – also featured presentations by AMS Principal Investigator Prof. Andy van den Dobbelsteen and architect Marco Broekman. Several AMS research projects were pitched, followed by two panel discussions on energy transition in the city and...
Read More
Recently, a second article with results from the Urban Pulse project has been published Open Access in the Journal of Resources Conservation and Recycling: Space-time Information Analysis for Resource-Conscious Urban Planning and Design: A stakeholder based identification of urban metabolism data gaps. Currently, urban metabolism analyses are hampered by lack of data and they are performed on a scale level that does not match urban planning and...
Read More
From October 15th till October 20th, NRGlab member Ilse Voskamp attended the Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador. Ilse presented the results of the Urban Pulse research at the conference exhibition, in a joint booth from AMS and Wageningen University and Research. Habitat III is the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, which is held once every 20 years (Habitat I: Vancouver, 1976; Habitat II: Istanbul,...
Read More
Recently, the Journal of Industrial Ecology published the first article that presents results from the Urban Pulse project. In the article, titled Enhanced Performance of the Eurostat Method for Comprehensive Assessment of Urban Metabolism – A Material Flow Analysis of Amsterdam we propose modifications to the Eurostat method to enhance its performance for comprehensive analysis of urban metabolism. The majority of European urban MFA...
Read More