Retrofit cities with Nature-based Solutions
Cities face diverse planetary crises, climate change, biodiversity loss and pollutants. Nature-based Solutions (NBS) can offer innovative redesign options that can integrate ecological, social and technological factors to enhance urban resilience. However, implementing NBS in pre-built urban landscapes necessitates scrutiny of spatial, legal, and socio-cultural constraints. In dense urban settings with limited horizontal space and different usage and ownerships, sparing land for NBS might be challenging. The Incubator team aims to investigate where, how, when and what type of NBS can be implemented, and wants to explore the use of geo-data streams (street view images, 3D-surface models) to identify potential vertical and horizontal spaces.