Urban Mining analyses study the potential of recovering materials and resources found in buildings and constructions of a city during dismantling, demolition, or renovation processes. The city becomes, thus, a territory where mining can be used to look for and generate new resources from reusing, recycling, and up-cycling processes. In the context of the CENTRINNO […]
Short essay written in the book The Social Dimension of Social Housing, edited by Simon Güntner, Juma Hauser, Judith M. Lehner and Christoph Reinprecht in 2023, Spektor Books. All essays and case studies are based on the work developed in the summer schools co-organised by IBA Reseach Lab, the Research Center for New Social Housing […]
As part of my work in Paisaje Transversal, I have been working on the development of Local Urban Agendas in different medium size cities in Catalonia, including Esparreguera, Manresa and Cervelló, using the methodology developed by the company and based in the Spanish Urban Agenda. The Spanish Urban Agenda is a strategic document that, aligned […]
This academic paper was written together with Dr. Bardia Mashhoodi (Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands) in the context of the EVA project (Electrical Vehicle Charging Infrastructure for the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area). Abstract: This study develops a multiscale model for allocation of EV infrastructure to accommodate residents’ demand during nights and that of residents and […]
This conference paper was written together with Carolina Ferro, Ida Jusic, Mitalee Parikh and Tomas Diez Ladera (Fab City Foundation), and Carlotta Fontana and Francesco Cingolani (Volumes Paris) for the Fab17 Research Papers Stream (Fab17), Bali, Indonesia, on the 19th October 2022. The article, presented by Carolina Ferro at the conference, provides a conceptual discussion […]
Mobility; Parking capacity; Electricity demand; GIS; Amsterdam Metropolitan Area Data article, developed with Bardia Mashhoodi for Data in Brief journal in the context of the EVA research project. Abstract: The dataset combines and aggregate five data types of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area in a polygon GIS shapefile with 79 three-digit postcode areas, and a csv […]
Hortaleza, a small village in the North-East of Madrid was absorbed by the expansion of the city in the 1960s. We studied the morphological changes experienced by the historic center of Hortaleza in Madrid, providing insights for local conservation policies. It was led by the urban design and planning office Paisaje Transversal and commissioned by […]
Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure for Amsterdam Metropolitan Region (EVA) project is a research project developed by Wageningen University & Research, commissioned by the VerDuS program Smart Urban Regions of the Future. The objective of the project is to develop approaches to determine how and where to locate electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The study is multi-scalar, […]
Circular economy; cities and territories; socio-ecological transition; resource flows Chapter co-authored with Cecilia Furlan, Alexander Wandl and Chiara Cavalieri, published in Amenta L., Russo M., van Timmeren A. (eds) Regenerative Territories. GeoJournal Library, vol 128. Springer, Cham Abstract: Nowadays, the circularity concept dominates the debate on resource management in cities and territories. The idea is often used as […]
The cross-fertilisation of cohesion policy and spatial planning policy brief was a spin-off work of the COMPASS research project (2018), commissioned by ESPON EU. The objective of the project was to provide an authoritative comparative report on changes in territorial governance and spatial planning systems in Europe from 2000 to 2016. Findings for 32 countries […]