Kick off project Closed City 2.0

Closed City 2.0 is the concept to realize ecological city that responds to water issues due to climate change. This concept is established by three systems which hybrid multiple elements, such as water environment system combining natural and artificial parts, water governance system by collaboration with private and public sectors, and spatial system coexisting with various quality of blue, green, red and grey space. In order to anticipate on current climate change issues, it is important to understand the hybridity of each system in existing urban areas, and to examine the applicability of Closed City 2.0. This project studies the evolution of the hybridity in a ‘50s, ‘70s and ‘90s urban samples. These urban areas are characteristic due to trends and technologies from the period in which they were built and are therefore different in construction and contemporary issues. GIS analyses will bring the appropriate analyses of the state these areas are in. Next step is to project the concept of Closed City 2.0 onto these areas to test what the possibility of this concept is and if it differs from area to area in a typical way. Conclusions will be drawn on the methods of study and the applicability of the Closed Concept. For the project, Keisuke Sugano (Urbanism) is principal researcher, Fransje Hooimeijer (Urbanism) is project leader, Frans van de Ven (Water Management)  is project partner, Simo Lu (Water Management) is master graduation student and Wouter ter Heijden (Urbanism) is student assistant. From the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Takashi Obase (Urban Management) is connected to the project for governance aspects.

More information:
Keisuke Sugano, Researcher of TU Delft
Email: keisukesugano@gmail.com