U-Lab

Dealing with the complexity of urban patterns

Laboratory for research on complexity of cities and landscapes

Programme leader
Prof.dr.ir. V.J. (Han) Meyer

Department
Urbanism

Participating Chairs

U-Lab is a research centre of the Delft University of Technology addressing the increasing complexity of the composition, construction, development and use of urban patterns and the role urban design can play to understand and manipulate this complexity.

The aim of U-lab is to strengthen urban design as a technical-scientific discipline by the development of new instruments and methods, which create new ways of understanding and interpreting present-day urban realities, as well as new ways of working at the urban realities of tomorrow.

Sub research programmes

Urban Deltas

Urban Deltas focus on the networks of public works for water-management, flooddefense and mobility and the (potential) meaning of these public works for the urban morphology and vitality and for the urban and metropolitan design.

Urban Fabrics

Urban Fabrics, Densities and programs focus on the changing use and programs of the city, the changes of demands concerning the urban environment, the consequences for the pattern, morphology and density of the city, including multiple land-use, and the consequences for the discipline of urban design.

Urban Dynamics

Urban Dynamics: Self-Organisation and Globalisation focus on the question how urban design can deal with the increasing complexity of processes - on the one hand the increasing awareness of the importance of self-organisation, on the other hand the effects of globalisation.

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