Our vision: from speculative towards evidence-based urban design and planning

We deem it crucial to change the way cities are planned and designed and advocate and from speculative towards evidence-based planning. 

An evidence-based approach is currently not a natural part of the design process when new neighbourhoods are planned. What is quite common instead, is to isolate a project from its context and evaluate planned neighbourhoods when the design is already completed, and it is already too late to make any changes.

TWIN2EXPAND

Evgeniya Bobkova and Ioanna Stavroulaki have recently presented Urban Calculator at Chalmers University within TWIN2EXPAND research project. The TWIN2EXPAND project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe WIDERA program, brings together a consortium of leading European research institutions, including University College London (UCL), Polytechnic University of Turin, Chalmers University of Technology and Space Syntax Limited.… Continue reading TWIN2EXPAND