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I am a geographer and holding a chair in Infrastructuring Urban Futures at the Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management department at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation. Prior to my appointment at ITC in 2017 I worked at the Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies of the University of Amsterdam (the NL) in various positions, ranging from postdoctoral researcher to Associate Professor. I obtained my PhD in Physical Geography from Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
I am holding the chair Infrastructuring Urban Futures in the Research theme PLUS – People, Land and Urban Systems.
The chair analyses past and present developments of urban processes, and develops scientific methods, approaches and tools to sketch, simulate and analyse urban futures in a collaborative planning environment. The term infrastructuring emphasizes the important relationship between urban development, infrastructures and services (e.g. transport, energy, water, telecommunication, etc.), and it expresses the need to rethink and innovate the way cities are managed and developed. The pressure on urban planners to re-invent their practices raises the question of how research can engage with, and participate in, the development of new urban planning practices which address issues of urban sustainability and the tension between efficiency and inequality. Therefore, the chair investigates how urban governance actors (state, corporates, citizens, academia) develop, organize and practice access to urban infrastructure (transport, energy, water, sewage, etc) and how Geo-T can enhance the planning of and access to urban infrastructures balancing sectorial and social priorities. It combines quantitative, spatial (GIS and Remote Sensing techniques) and qualitative methods and employs a multi-stakeholder perspective to generate information and knowledge from different data sources in urban areas and investigate its use in urban governance and planning processes.
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Currently I am involved in the following research projects:
2019-2022 INECIS Informal Economies and Creative Industry strategies - Governance arrangements, socio-spatial dynamics and informal economies in urban kampongs in Indonesia
INECIS investigates the relationship between the informal economies of kampongs and formal creative industries strategies, and how these impact the spatial, social and economic development of kampongs. It is funded by NWO-wotro (Indonesia-The Netherlands Cooperation).
2016-2020 A New Urban Epoch? Alternative ways to measure urbanization using VHR remote sensing data
This PhD project explores the potential of Very High Resolution satellite images to research urbanization processes and patterns of small towns at the rural-urban transition and provide alternative measures and conceptualizations of contemporary urbanization.
2016-2019: CODALoop - Community Data-Loops for energy-efficient urban lifestyles
CODALoop aims at enabling behavioural change in energy use through the design, implementation and assessment of learning and behavioural adaptation feedback loops, supported by a web-based platform through which qualitative and quantitative data are shared.
More information at: http://aissr.uva.nl/research/externally-funded-projects/sites/content13/codaloop/codaloop.html
2016-2019: DynaSlum: Data Driven Modelling and Decision Support for Slums
DynaSlum processes very high-resolution remote sensing images and builds high-resolution agent-based models that can describe the growth dynamics of slums in Bangalore. – More information at: http://www.dynaslum.com
2014-2018: Inclusive partnerships and innovation platforms for sustainable landscapes and greater food sovereignty among tree crop farmers in Ghana and South Africa
The related PhD project that I supervise within this project focuses on the effects of tree-crop farming on the mosaic landscape employing remote-sensing based land use change detection as well as participatory GIS. More information at: https://inclusivevcc.wordpress.com
2014-2018: Sound and the city: The nature of the interaction between patterns of human activity and sound in public spaces
This PhD project investigates how activity influences the way how people interpret and evaluate the auditory environment of urban public spaces and how the auditory environment of an urban public spaces affords particular activities in these spaces.
Before I was involved in:
I am supervising the following PhD projects
Earlier, I have supervised the following PhD projects
University of Amsterdam
2009 → 2016
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Research output: Contribution to conference › Other › Academic
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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