Alexander Wandl Email and Phone Number

Dr Alexander Wandl is an Urbanist at the Chair of Environmental Technology and Design, at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology. His research focuses on developing sustainable urbanization, using an extended territorial metabolism approach and integrating (GIS-supported) methods and tools from different disciplines. As scientific coordinator of the Horizon 2020 financed research project REPAiR—Resource Management in peri-urban areas—he is at the forefront of developing spatial strategies, which support the transition towards more circularity. He specifically focuses on the challenges related to the sustainable development of dispersed urban areas and peri-urbanization processes in Europe.

As section of Environmental Technology and Design (ET&D), we aim for inter- and transdisciplinary, context-driven, and solution-focused research and education for the sake of a better environment. Climate adaptation and mitigation, regeneration of biodiversity, digitalisation, scarcity of materials, the energy transition, provision of affordable and healthy nutrition all have multiple spatial claims on the finite resource of land. Following the Delft Design tradition, we integrate design and engineering approaches to address those challenges. We develop and apply environmental-based methods and techniques, urban data science, and geospatial information technologies. Our research and education blend environmental technology, urban ecology, citizen participation and environmental behaviour at different scales. There is a strong emphasis on the interaction of these fields in terms of theories, methods and techniques, and their application via concepts, strategies and spatial interventions. ETD's research and education portfolio concerns applied science for and often with public and private partners.

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Senior Researcher focusing on urban planning and design, with current focus on the transition towards a circular economy.Project coordinator of the H2020 Project REPAiR, Resource managment in peri-urban areas: Going beyond urban metabolism

Research Topic: Territories In-Between: A European Cross Case Study on the Planning of Areas Between Urban and Rural

Design & Planning Support Tools for the European postgraduate master in urbanism (EMU) program.

Researcher at the TU Delft – Department of Urbanism – Chair of spatial planning and StrategyRUFUS – http://www.rufus-eu.de/As the objectives of the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) shift from an agricultural-centred approach to wider rural development, the idea of multi-functionality of rural areas comes into play. This in turn brings the CAP into closer association with a wide range of sectoral policy regimes: regional policy, spatial planning, environmental management; social, energy policy, and others. RUFUS (Rural Future Networks) will provide policy makers and stakeholders with a better theoretical and practical understanding of how CAP measures interact with other forms of public intervention in rural development.

Thesis download:http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/ir/uuid:27393172-06f5-4db4-8756-31fa6d838fce/

Environmental site survey and analysis, scoping studies and Natura 2000 assessments, landscape envelope planning and environmental site surveillance for large infrastructure and industrial projects;

Developing and creating the exhibition “Climate – Awareness in Change”Responsible for the part: climate and mobility