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DOWN TO EARTH Policy Brief

DOWN TO EARTH’s Thematic Report: Year 1

WAVE (Water Areas Vision for Europe) Final Report: Reflection in Action

SPAZIAMO: Revitalizing Locarno through Tactical Urbanism – An interview with Nicolò D’Andrea from the Collettivo Urbano

Divided by narrative: sustainability transitions and frugal innovation

Envisioning just and democratic citizen participation in urban planning and governance – is Citizen Participation inclusive?

The Sense and Non-Sense of PEDs—Feeding Back Practical Experiences of Positive Energy District Demonstrators into the European PED Framework Definition Development Process

A beautiful horizon for food planning. Lessons from Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Integrating food into urban planning

Designed ecologies for an urban river system across scales in Kunming and Liupanshui

Water and the city: the Singapore story

Planning to mitigate hurricane damage and to insure the continued growth of Cancun and its region

Cities for marginal communities. Lessons learned from Indonesia’s slum alleviation program

Less is beautiful: Transforming metropolitan Doha into a global resilient urban village

Sustainable development, planning and poverty alleviation

Paris / Ile-de-France region facing climate change

Cool planning for zero emissions neighborhoods. The Norwegian way

Re-birth of the Gran Canal. Preservation of the canal linear cultural heritage corridor at Hangzhou

Planning for cities that love nature. The emerging global nature of biophilic cities

Reconnecting the city to its river. Sabarmati riverfront development project in Ahmedabad

Ecological infrastructure as a tool for smart preservation and smart growth. The negative approach

Managing stormwater and its influence on building a sustainable, resilient city. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ten key dimensions for Eco-city development in theory and practice

Towards climate resilient planning in Vienna. From models to climate services

Lighting the future of city. The importance of lighting in future cities

Pragmatic approaches to Chinese urban transformation: Dongguan eco-industrial park

Making a new district using eight principles. Chenggong, a new town near Kunming, China

Co-Creating Local Energy Transitions Through Smart Cities: Piloting a Prosumer-Oriented Approach

Realising the Potentials of a Design-dividend Towards a Loveable Urban Future

Forward Thinking on Culturally Urban Imprint in the Contemporary Era Rejuvenating the Traditional Neighbourhood Values and Characters: An Urban Morphology Review on Qatari Cities

The Goldilocks Zone for the public sector innovation: Teresina 2030 towards resilience to climate change in the developing world

360cityscan: integrated solutions to face urban challenges

Participatory and Good Governance: The role of stakeholders in increasing the adaptive capacity of the poor to cope with the impact of climate change. Case studies: Surakarta and Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Cultural sensitive approach in water management for a volcanic river basin of Yogyakarta Metropolitan Area

Machine Learning for Building Extraction and Integration of Particle Swarm Optimization with Sleuth for Urban Growth, Pattern Visualisation for Liveable Cities

Integrating Vertical Farming at Scale in Urban Food Planning, Practical Considerations for Planners

The Corridor Strategies in the Megacity Development: Case Study of the Optical Valley Knowledge

Urban Population Growth and the Growth of Towns and Cities in Indonesia: the Challenge of Non-statutory Town Development

An Analysis of the Changing Role of Istanbul as a Megacity in the World

Out-migrate Elites as Rural-Urban Link: an Innovative Pathway Toward Rural Development Around Metropolis

Healthy Districts: Creating Healthy Cities

Urban Morphology and Behavioural Mapping in Abu Dhabi’s Public Spaces. Informality as an Interaction of Cultural Context and Urban Form

Essence of Urban form and its Relationship with Urban Aesthetics: A case from Rajshahi City, Bangladesh

Re-Thinking the city: Basaksehir Living Lab (Case of Istanbul)

Why We Need Participatory Mapping?

Smart Cities and The People: Urban Planning Collectives in Indonesian Cities

The shift towards smart cities in Southeast Asian cities

Spaces of becoming – Space shapes public and public (re)shapes their own spaces

Trans-disciplinary planning approaches towards resilience

Living with water: how memory and experience help build community resilience in Dordrecht

Mind the gap: Stakeholders perspective on resilience building in the City of Rotterdam

Building Dignity: A participatory concept for climate change-impacts mitigation in informal settlements in North Jakarta

Role of Women Self Help Groups in Disaster Resilience and Livelihood Regeneration: Post Flood Experience from Kerala

Expanding an understanding of urban resilience in the realm of adaptation planning

Spatial planning and design for food security; Building Positive Rural-urban Linkages

Towards Effective Planning of Trans-border City Regions: Three Australian Case Studies

Decentralization and Devolution in Growing Megacities: Case of Bangalore, India

The Role of Local Leadership in Defragmented Urban Development: Case of Higher Education Town – Jatinangor, West Java, Indonesia

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DOWN TO EARTH Policy Brief

DOWN TO EARTH’s Thematic Report: Year 1

WAVE (Water Areas Vision for Europe) Final Report: Reflection in Action

SPAZIAMO: Revitalizing Locarno through Tactical Urbanism – An interview with Nicolò D’Andrea from the Collettivo Urbano

Divided by narrative: sustainability transitions and frugal innovation

Envisioning just and democratic citizen participation in urban planning and governance – is Citizen Participation inclusive?

The Sense and Non-Sense of PEDs—Feeding Back Practical Experiences of Positive Energy District Demonstrators into the European PED Framework Definition Development Process

A beautiful horizon for food planning. Lessons from Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Integrating food into urban planning

Designed ecologies for an urban river system across scales in Kunming and Liupanshui

Water and the city: the Singapore story

Planning to mitigate hurricane damage and to insure the continued growth of Cancun and its region

Cities for marginal communities. Lessons learned from Indonesia’s slum alleviation program

Less is beautiful: Transforming metropolitan Doha into a global resilient urban village

Sustainable development, planning and poverty alleviation

Paris / Ile-de-France region facing climate change

Cool planning for zero emissions neighborhoods. The Norwegian way

Re-birth of the Gran Canal. Preservation of the canal linear cultural heritage corridor at Hangzhou

Planning for cities that love nature. The emerging global nature of biophilic cities

Reconnecting the city to its river. Sabarmati riverfront development project in Ahmedabad

Ecological infrastructure as a tool for smart preservation and smart growth. The negative approach

Managing stormwater and its influence on building a sustainable, resilient city. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ten key dimensions for Eco-city development in theory and practice

Towards climate resilient planning in Vienna. From models to climate services

Lighting the future of city. The importance of lighting in future cities

Pragmatic approaches to Chinese urban transformation: Dongguan eco-industrial park

Making a new district using eight principles. Chenggong, a new town near Kunming, China

Co-Creating Local Energy Transitions Through Smart Cities: Piloting a Prosumer-Oriented Approach

Realising the Potentials of a Design-dividend Towards a Loveable Urban Future

Forward Thinking on Culturally Urban Imprint in the Contemporary Era Rejuvenating the Traditional Neighbourhood Values and Characters: An Urban Morphology Review on Qatari Cities

The Goldilocks Zone for the public sector innovation: Teresina 2030 towards resilience to climate change in the developing world

360cityscan: integrated solutions to face urban challenges

Participatory and Good Governance: The role of stakeholders in increasing the adaptive capacity of the poor to cope with the impact of climate change. Case studies: Surakarta and Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Cultural sensitive approach in water management for a volcanic river basin of Yogyakarta Metropolitan Area

Machine Learning for Building Extraction and Integration of Particle Swarm Optimization with Sleuth for Urban Growth, Pattern Visualisation for Liveable Cities

Integrating Vertical Farming at Scale in Urban Food Planning, Practical Considerations for Planners

The Corridor Strategies in the Megacity Development: Case Study of the Optical Valley Knowledge

Urban Population Growth and the Growth of Towns and Cities in Indonesia: the Challenge of Non-statutory Town Development

An Analysis of the Changing Role of Istanbul as a Megacity in the World

Out-migrate Elites as Rural-Urban Link: an Innovative Pathway Toward Rural Development Around Metropolis

Healthy Districts: Creating Healthy Cities

Urban Morphology and Behavioural Mapping in Abu Dhabi’s Public Spaces. Informality as an Interaction of Cultural Context and Urban Form

Essence of Urban form and its Relationship with Urban Aesthetics: A case from Rajshahi City, Bangladesh

Re-Thinking the city: Basaksehir Living Lab (Case of Istanbul)

Why We Need Participatory Mapping?

Smart Cities and The People: Urban Planning Collectives in Indonesian Cities

The shift towards smart cities in Southeast Asian cities

Spaces of becoming – Space shapes public and public (re)shapes their own spaces

Trans-disciplinary planning approaches towards resilience

Living with water: how memory and experience help build community resilience in Dordrecht

Mind the gap: Stakeholders perspective on resilience building in the City of Rotterdam

Building Dignity: A participatory concept for climate change-impacts mitigation in informal settlements in North Jakarta

Role of Women Self Help Groups in Disaster Resilience and Livelihood Regeneration: Post Flood Experience from Kerala

Expanding an understanding of urban resilience in the realm of adaptation planning

Spatial planning and design for food security; Building Positive Rural-urban Linkages

Towards Effective Planning of Trans-border City Regions: Three Australian Case Studies

Decentralization and Devolution in Growing Megacities: Case of Bangalore, India

The Role of Local Leadership in Defragmented Urban Development: Case of Higher Education Town – Jatinangor, West Java, Indonesia

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DOWN TO EARTH Policy Brief

DOWN TO EARTH’s Thematic Report: Year 1

WAVE (Water Areas Vision for Europe) Final Report: Reflection in Action

SPAZIAMO: Revitalizing Locarno through Tactical Urbanism – An interview with Nicolò D’Andrea from the Collettivo Urbano

Divided by narrative: sustainability transitions and frugal innovation

Envisioning just and democratic citizen participation in urban planning and governance – is Citizen Participation inclusive?

The Sense and Non-Sense of PEDs—Feeding Back Practical Experiences of Positive Energy District Demonstrators into the European PED Framework Definition Development Process

A beautiful horizon for food planning. Lessons from Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Integrating food into urban planning

Designed ecologies for an urban river system across scales in Kunming and Liupanshui

Water and the city: the Singapore story

Planning to mitigate hurricane damage and to insure the continued growth of Cancun and its region

Cities for marginal communities. Lessons learned from Indonesia’s slum alleviation program

Less is beautiful: Transforming metropolitan Doha into a global resilient urban village

Sustainable development, planning and poverty alleviation

Paris / Ile-de-France region facing climate change

Cool planning for zero emissions neighborhoods. The Norwegian way

Re-birth of the Gran Canal. Preservation of the canal linear cultural heritage corridor at Hangzhou

Planning for cities that love nature. The emerging global nature of biophilic cities

Reconnecting the city to its river. Sabarmati riverfront development project in Ahmedabad

Ecological infrastructure as a tool for smart preservation and smart growth. The negative approach

Managing stormwater and its influence on building a sustainable, resilient city. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ten key dimensions for Eco-city development in theory and practice

Towards climate resilient planning in Vienna. From models to climate services

Lighting the future of city. The importance of lighting in future cities

Pragmatic approaches to Chinese urban transformation: Dongguan eco-industrial park

Making a new district using eight principles. Chenggong, a new town near Kunming, China

Co-Creating Local Energy Transitions Through Smart Cities: Piloting a Prosumer-Oriented Approach

Realising the Potentials of a Design-dividend Towards a Loveable Urban Future

Forward Thinking on Culturally Urban Imprint in the Contemporary Era Rejuvenating the Traditional Neighbourhood Values and Characters: An Urban Morphology Review on Qatari Cities

The Goldilocks Zone for the public sector innovation: Teresina 2030 towards resilience to climate change in the developing world

360cityscan: integrated solutions to face urban challenges

Participatory and Good Governance: The role of stakeholders in increasing the adaptive capacity of the poor to cope with the impact of climate change. Case studies: Surakarta and Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Cultural sensitive approach in water management for a volcanic river basin of Yogyakarta Metropolitan Area

Machine Learning for Building Extraction and Integration of Particle Swarm Optimization with Sleuth for Urban Growth, Pattern Visualisation for Liveable Cities

Integrating Vertical Farming at Scale in Urban Food Planning, Practical Considerations for Planners

The Corridor Strategies in the Megacity Development: Case Study of the Optical Valley Knowledge

Urban Population Growth and the Growth of Towns and Cities in Indonesia: the Challenge of Non-statutory Town Development

An Analysis of the Changing Role of Istanbul as a Megacity in the World

Out-migrate Elites as Rural-Urban Link: an Innovative Pathway Toward Rural Development Around Metropolis

Healthy Districts: Creating Healthy Cities

Urban Morphology and Behavioural Mapping in Abu Dhabi’s Public Spaces. Informality as an Interaction of Cultural Context and Urban Form

Essence of Urban form and its Relationship with Urban Aesthetics: A case from Rajshahi City, Bangladesh

Re-Thinking the city: Basaksehir Living Lab (Case of Istanbul)

Why We Need Participatory Mapping?

Smart Cities and The People: Urban Planning Collectives in Indonesian Cities

The shift towards smart cities in Southeast Asian cities

Spaces of becoming – Space shapes public and public (re)shapes their own spaces

Trans-disciplinary planning approaches towards resilience

Living with water: how memory and experience help build community resilience in Dordrecht

Mind the gap: Stakeholders perspective on resilience building in the City of Rotterdam

Building Dignity: A participatory concept for climate change-impacts mitigation in informal settlements in North Jakarta

Role of Women Self Help Groups in Disaster Resilience and Livelihood Regeneration: Post Flood Experience from Kerala

Expanding an understanding of urban resilience in the realm of adaptation planning

Spatial planning and design for food security; Building Positive Rural-urban Linkages

Towards Effective Planning of Trans-border City Regions: Three Australian Case Studies

Decentralization and Devolution in Growing Megacities: Case of Bangalore, India

The Role of Local Leadership in Defragmented Urban Development: Case of Higher Education Town – Jatinangor, West Java, Indonesia

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