Research across systems, territories and communities

Nine urban archetypes translating metabolic evidence into practical spatial-design tools.

Harmonising, documenting and supporting the long-term reuse of urban metabolism research data.

A visiting-research project examining agency, environmental politics and power relations in urban metabolic change.

A visiting-postdoctoral project applying urban metabolism and circular-economy analysis to construction-sector resource flows in Algiers.

Research on how landscape planning and design can shape sustainable energy-transition landscapes.

A material-stock and flow analysis of future resource demand and environmental impacts across and within Chinese cities.

A local assessment of urban-symbiosis strategies for optimising energy demand and reducing carbon emissions in Algiers.

Research connecting urban resource flows with public space, landscape infrastructure and vulnerable communities.

Research connecting non-human agency, multispecies justice, ecological unequal exchange, post-growth urbanism and political ecology.

Research into metabolic and life-cycle thinking in landscape architecture practice, policy and education.

A regional and relational framework for understanding the metabolism of interconnected cities.

An integrated framework connecting urban metabolism, ecosystem-service assessment and dynamic modelling.

Research coupling green and built infrastructure, urban thermal environments and carbon emissions.

An expanded material-flow framework integrating formal and informal urban resource flows.

A Horizon Europe project developing and validating ten solutions to reduce the environmental impact of healthcare while safeguarding care quality and safety.

A cartographic and design investigation into animal-inclusive urban planning and non-human agency.

Explainable computational methods for identifying and interpreting metabolic clusters in Belgian cities.

Research into smaller cities, suburban territories, interconnected urban regions and infrastructure networks.

Data frameworks and participatory methods for assessing nature-based solutions in rapidly growing informal settlements.

A neighbourhood metabolic model linking urban agriculture, food security and socio-ecological resilience.

Research connecting road-material stocks, infrastructure recycling, excavated soil, biowaste and circular construction.

A framework integrating energy systems, material flows, ecosystem services, social organisation and wellbeing.

A transdisciplinary programme developing an Agency–Information–Spacetime meta-framework and an integrated model-selection system for urban social-ecological metabolism.

Research into the use of urban biowaste and excavated soil as secondary construction resources.

Research into circular design, adaptability and nature-based approaches in healthcare environments.

Research into water infrastructures, community self-organisation and commoning practices.

Research into the ecological and hydrological potential of desealing industrial sites.