Review in Science: Transforming Urban Environments
New publication (+ review) on how resilient cities of the past hold lessons for creating adaptable communities of the future
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Interview on Climate Robust Heritage Estate Landscapes
Climate robust heritage estate landscapes thanks to the utilization of systems thinking, co-creation and design power. Interview in Beeldspraak Magazine
Interview on Chinese Pearl River Delta
Backgrounds on project Adaptive Urban Transformation with Pearl River Delta (China) as case study
Selected to Design a Vision for the Shantou Inner Bay, China
OKRA landscape architects with Steffen Nijhuis selected to work on the Shantou Inner Bay Urban Design International Workshop
Keynote lecture & Executive meetings Adaptive Coastal Design, 1-7 March 2020, West Coast Florida
Keynote lecture & executive meetings on adaptive coastal design and resilient urban landscapes in Mexico Beach, Tallahassee and Sanibel-Captiva, Florida. In collaboration with Brian Cook, USF, SCCF, COTI, CEPTD, City of Sanibel
True-colour 3D laser scan Park Rosendael
Field experiments with true-colour 3D laser scanning resulting in high-resolution point cloud of Rosendael Park and Castle
AUT-project meeting 15-17 July 2019, Delft
Consortium meeting NSFC-NWO-EPRSC funded project 'Adaptive Urban Transformation' at TU Delft with lectures, workshops and fieldtrips. TU Delft, SCUT and UoS on adaptive planning and design of the Pearl River Bay Region
Interview TU Delft TV: The return of the herring
Interview on the possibilities for landscape development as result of the opening of the Dutch Haringvliet sea lock
Kick-off project 'Design Atlas Heritage Estate Landscapes Gelderland'
This project aims to create a spatial design atlas for the sustainable conservation and development of Gelderland's castles and historic country estates in a landscape context
Interview Les Echos Week-End
Interview on Pearl River Delta in Les Echos Week-End, a weekly magazine by France's largest business newspaper
Winning entry competition ‘Water as Leverage’
Winning competition entry ‘City of 1.000 Tanks’ by Ooze architects (lead partner), TU Delft (Han Meyer, Steffen Nijhuis, Verana Balz), and others
Kick-off project Adaptive Urban Transformation
The project aims to develop an integrative and multiscale design and planning approach for adaptive urban transformation in fast urbanizing deltas with Pearl River Delta as case study
Start project ShoreScape: Designing adaptive coastal built environments
The projects aim to develop principles for designing adaptive coastal built environments that enhance BwN-processes and contribute to the natural adaptation and sustainable development of urban coastal zones