sustainability

The spatial impact of the sharing economy and product as a service

Spatial impact: sharing economy & product as a service

The sharing economy and product as a service are growing. What will be their spatial and environmental effects in Flanders?

City Lab/LOVI Cool-Zuid

How to make a neighborhood future-proof and at the same time take a leap in quality of its development by better connecting bottom-up and top-down projects? City Lab as an independent intermediary platform for urban development.

Urban Circular Economy

2o17

If the shared economy is no longer a niche economy, how will this affect the city? A paper describing the Urban Circular Passport, written for Plandag 2017: Shared Space.

Urban Circular Economy

Until now the Rotterdam urban fabric seems to be flexible enough to absorb the first spatial impacts of the Next Economy. But to accelerate the transition, Rotterdam has a grand city renewal task ahead. An essay for the Economic Outlook Rotterdam 2017.

Urban Circular Economy

2o16

Interview with David Dooghe by Weekend Knack on circular economy.

Metro In Progress

An worldwide comparison of metropolitan strategies.

Urban Circular Economy

If Urban Circular Entrepreneurs no longer will be a niche, but will form a mainstream market, what will be the effect on the city and more specific its public space?

Urban Circular Economy

The installation The Circular Pantry enables participants to discover the existing, however often unknown, possibilities of food flows in a house and neighbourhood.

Urban Circular Economy

2o15

How to create new innovation and production areas? The project Urban Circular Economy was presented and debated upon with peers during Metropool Forum 2o15.

Urban Circular Economy

The project Urban Circular Economy has been selected as one of the projects in the Year of Spatial Planning.

Circular Municipality of the Future

In Flanders, every day about 6 hectares of open space is being built upon. At the same time, no less than 40 percent of the material flows go to building projects. The pilot project Circular Municipality of the Future aims to drastically reduce both.

Urban Circular Economy

How can the energy transition and the challenge to meet the Paris Agreement, be seen as an opportunity for Rotterdam to become circular?

Urban Circular Economy

2o17

What will be the role of the spatial planner concerning the circular economy? Which are the planning instruments she or he can use? For the VRP congress, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the establishment Spatial Structural Plan of Flanders, David Dooghe was asked to shortly reflect on these questions.

Urban Circular Economy

What are the spatial effects of new perspectives on an urban waste management? A series of Pecha Kucha presentations for the event: “The city makes Waste, Waste makes the City” went in depth on this question.

Urban Circular Economy

The publication Urban Circular Economy (Stedelijke Circulaire Economie) offers the initial outcomes of the research. It gives an overview of the three scenarios, and ends with concept Urban Circular Passports for the Cities of Rotterdam and Antwerp.