New research project: CoCoNet - Co-creative Cohabitation Network
For advancing the transformation of urban streetscapes, CoCoNet aims to provide an integrated modelling-supported approach to reveal synergies between mobility, climate adaptation, and biodiversity measures, and to facilitate collaboration of different stakeholders for co-creating urban development solutions.
Cities are confronted with the conflicting targets of both providing sufficient living space and infrastructure while at the same time providing green and open space to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss and to offer livable urban districts. For sustainable urban redevelopment, an integrated planning approach to urban streetscapes is needed, combining transportation modeling with the planning for other purposes, such as climate adaptation, noise reduction or biodiversity preservation. Thereby, Nature-based Solutions (NbS) that vegetation and unsealed soils can provide are the prerequisite for biodiversity, rainwater management, and amenities of urban open spaces. Although sophisticated analytical and design tools can inform the transformation from various perspectives, such resources are not widely embraced across stakeholders for co-creation of desired solutions.