The current pandemic, with its associated need for physical distancing and the accompanying transformation of the built environment, generates the pressing need for built environment researchers to refocus their research and respond to the current public health crisis. An …

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Site Resource Inventories – a Missing Link in the Circular City’s Information Flow

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A circular city builds upon the principles of circular economy, which key concepts of reduce, reuse, recycle , and recover lead to a coupling of resources: products and by-products of one production process become the input of another one, …

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Sourcing Energy from Waste in the Circular City: Integrated Anaerobic Digestion toward long term Decarbonization

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Energy use within buildings contributes to nearly a third of carbon emissions in the United States (Zhang et al. 2019, EPA). Meanwhile, between 30-40% of food in the U.S. is wasted and generates carbon emissions equivalent to that of …

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Adaptive Reuse as Carbon Adaptation: Urban Food Production in the under-used Parking Garages of the Future

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This research collaboration between the Circular City + Living Systems (CCLS) research lab and the architecture practice Weber Thompson addresses the intersection of three critical topics affecting the carbon footprint of the built environment: adaptive reuse of existing buildings, …

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Building an Ecosystem: Integrating Rooftop Aquaponics with a Brewery to Advance the Circular Economy

Conference paper for 108th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Virtual Conference

Figure 5: Aquaponic rooftop greenhouse and brewery systems combined; preliminary interaction diagram.

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As cities transform to manage the food-water-energy nexus sustainably, architectural design …

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CITYFOOD: Research Design for an International, Transdisciplinary Collaboration

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Twenty-first-century cities face challenges including potential food shortages, water scarcity, and dependence on nonrenewable energy sources. These are increasingly intensified by global population growth. The development of innovative solutions for the food-water-energy nexus requires transdisciplinary approaches across scales, boundaries, …

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Integration of Aquaponic Systems in Cities

PhD student Erin Horn was interviewed for the sustainable lifestyle podcast NeuPlanet by Aidan Hersh & Xander Kipp. In this episode, the hosts discuss what urban integration of aquaponics means, as well as exciting new areas for developing research.…

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Urban Food Systems: Applying Life Cycle Assessment in Built Environments and Aquaponics

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As the building sector faces global challenges that affect urban supplies of food, water and energy, multifaceted sustainability solutions need to be reexamined through the lens of built environments. Aquaponics, a strategy that combines recirculating aquaculture with hydroponics to …

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Aquaponics in the Built Environment

Book chapter in Aquaponics Food Production Systems, Springer International Publishing 2019

BIGH Ferme Abattoir, Brussels , 07/05/2018
Credit : Daina Le Lardic / Isopix

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Aquaponics’ potential to transform urban food production has been documented in a rapid increase of …

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Book chapter CITYFOOD Publications

Garden City Presentation

Watch Professor Martin Despang and Professor Gundula Proksch discuss sustainable urban infrastructure with a focus on urban aquaponics in an episode of ThinkTech Hawaii.…

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CITYFOOD News Feed Publications Video

Review of Built to Grow: Blending Architecture and Biology

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The emerging discipline of biomimetics converges biology, chemistry, and engineering to offer a scientific approach to bio-inspiration. It develops methodologies for the in-depth analysis of nature to derive technological advances.¹ In the field of architecture, biomimetic research primarily

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Growing Urbanism: A Manifesto toward an Ecological Urbanism

Article in Blur>d3: dialog International Journal of Architecture and Design

Visual Data Overlay: In an interactive, visual overlay the user receives additional information about the surrounding site, shown here while looking at a self-regulating building in downtown Seattle.

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Imagine …

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Growing Urbanism Journal article Publications

Creating Urban Agricultural Systems: An Integrated Approach to Design

Routledge, 2017

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Creating Urban Agricultural Systems provides you with background, expertise, and inspiration for designing with urban agriculture. It shows you how to grow food in buildings and cities, operate growing systems, and integrate them with natural cycles and

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Growing Urbanism: An Evolutionary Urban Ecology in Cascadia

Book chapter in Now Urbanism: The New City is Here, Routledge, 2015

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Imagine a city in which nature and urban form are indistinguishable. Food grows in permaculture gardens where people live and work; tidelands re-emerge in industrial zones, …

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Growing Sustainability – Integrating Algae Cultivation into the Built Environment

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Designers are expanding the definition of Sustainable Design by incorporating biological processes and systems directly in their projects. Systems like green roofs and living machines have proved themselves invaluable for reducing a project’s overall environmental footprint. More recently, advanced …

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The Built Environments Laboratory: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Studio Education in the Planning and Design Disciplines

Journal article in Journal for Education in the Built Environment, 2012

Collective vision of the site, including building prototypes, urban agricultural production, and community engagement developed by a interdisciplinary student group.

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Interdisciplinary education is becoming a hallmark strategy …

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Photosynthetic Energy and Ecological Recycling: The Architectural Potential of Algae Cultivation

Conference paper in Digital Aptitudes: Proceedings of the 100th ACSA Annual Meeting, 2012

Algae as wastewater treatment

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Designers are expanding the definition of Ecological Design by incorporating biological processes and systems directly in their design. Systems like green …

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Urban Rooftops as Productive Resources: Rooftop Farming versus Conventional Green Roofs

Conference paper in Considering Research: Proceedings ARCC, 2011

Figure: Green roof and rooftop farm construction types

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Rooftops in our urban centers represent a vast potential of currently underused space. The transformation of these urban rooftops into an environmental, ecological …

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Urban Water: Re‐Introduction of Sustainable Water Cycles through Urban Agriculture

Conference paper in 99th ACSA Annual Meeting, Montreal, CA, 2011

New York City: Eagle Street Farm

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Despite severe catastrophes cased by heat waves, droughts and desertification, global water problems have not yet penetrated into general consciousness. This study looks …

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Hybridizing the American ‘Parkway’: The Potential of Urban Agriculture to create more Sustainable Cities

Conference paper in Landscape Legacy: Landscape Architecture Between Art And Science: Proceedings of the 2009-2010 CELA Conference, 2010

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Hybridizing the American “Parkway” demonstrates how existing historic ‘parkways’, a legacy of American Landscape Architecture, can be overlaid with sustainable …