Prof. Dr. Vanessa Miriam Carlow
Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany
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View All Publications8 March 2022 in Journal of Planning Literature
Journal Article
Rising complexities and uncertainties have emphasized the need to employ scenario thinking in urban design and planning. While different scenario methods have been widely used across disciplines, a comprehensive review of scenario approaches in planning literature is limited. Thus, we provide an overview of scenarios and existing scenario approaches currently in practice. We also review a scenario building process to provide a guide for developing scenarios in the context of urban design and planning. The process highlights the different steps that contribute to adaptive planning and improve decision-making.
4 January 2022 in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Journal Article
Vanessa Miriam Carlow
Olaf MummDNDirk Neumann
Dirk Neumann
ASAnne-Kathrin Schneider
Anne-Kathrin Schneider
BSBoris Schröder
Boris Schröder
RZRyan Zeringue
Ryan Zeringue
+1
Many years, urbanisation research has largely focused the development of urban agglomerations and megacity regions, whereas less attention was paid on the development of medium-sized cities, small towns, villages, or rural areas. Yet many interrelations and spatial linkages between urban and rural areas exist. In this paper, we present a novel method called ‘TOPOI’ for the integrated analysis and description of settlement units in an urban–rural setting. The TOPOI-method enhances the understanding of the built environment by clustering and describing settlement units of similar characteristics with view to their physical form, function, and connectivity. The method is built on known planning parameters, but does not limit the analysis of settlement units to their administrative boundaries. Based on 11 indicators, 13 TOPOI-classes were identified in two exemplary study regions revealing new insights into urban–rural settlement types. This allows a better understanding of urban–rural linkages and therefore opens up new pathways for a more sustainable development.
13 May 2019
Conference Paper
NTNicolas Tempelmeier
Nicolas Tempelmeier
YRYannick Rietz
Yannick Rietz
ILIryna Lishchuk
Iryna Lishchuk
TKTina Kruegel
Tina Kruegel
Olaf MummEDElena Demidova
Elena Demidova
+2
Journal Article
Deep Learning (DL) based identification and detection of elements in urban spaces through Earth Observation (EO) datasets have been widely researched and discussed. Such studies have developed state-of-the-art methods to map urban features like building footprint or roads in detail. This study delves deeper into combining multiple such studies to identify fine-grained urban features which define streetscapes. Specifically, the research focuses on employing object detection and semantic segmentation models and other computer vision methods to identify ten streetscape features such as movement corridors, roadways, sidewalks, bike paths, on-street parking, vehicles, trees, vegetation, road markings, and buildings. The training data for identifying and classifying all the elements except road markings are collected from open sources and finetuned to fit the study’s context. The training dataset is manually created and employed to delineate road markings. Apart from the model-specific evaluation on the test-set of the data, the study creates its own test dataset from the study area to analyze these models’ performance. The outputs from these models are further integrated to develop a geospatial dataset, which is additionally utilized to generate 3D views and street cross-sections for the city. The trained models and data sources are discussed in the research and are made available for urban researchers to exploit.
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Olaf MummRZRyan Zeringue
Ryan ZeringueNDNannan Dong
Nannan DongVanessa Miriam CarlowRecreational green spaces are associated with human thriving and well-being. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic a spotlight has been shed on the interconnection between access to these spaces, human well-being and social equity. Containment measures enacted in many cities effectively precluded people from reaching distant recreational areas during the pandemic and consequently, recreational areas close to home became particularly important. Urban density is often associated with building or population density with the assumption that if either parameter has a high value, the availability of open (green) space is low. Certain densities are associated with specific spatial qualities. Addressing challenges of sustainable development, a detailed evaluation of density is necessary to allow evidence-based arguments, planning and decision-making. In this study we develop a multi-scale analysis method for quantifying and assessing green infrastructures from settlement unit to building level to reach a differentiated view on density, arguing that density can be organized in different ways achieving very different qualities. For this purpose, we use geospatial-data analysis and in-depth neighborhood studies to compare two cities in Asia and Europe, revealing different ways of organizing density in the built environment and identifying a derivation of approaches for sustainable development in dense urban regions.
1 September 2020 in Marine Policy
Journal Article
DGDiana Giebels
Diana Giebels
JCJana Carus
Jana Carus
MPMaike Paul
Maike Paul
MKMichael Kleyer
Michael Kleyer
BSBernd Siebenhüner
Bernd Siebenhüner
BSBoris Schröder-Esselbach
Boris Schröder-Esselbach +6
About Me
Vanessa Miriam Carlow was appointed full professor at the TU Braunschweig in 2012, where she heads the Institute for Sustainable Urbanism (ISU). She is a licensed architect and urban planner, and co-founder of COBE in Copenhagen (2005-2012) and COBE Berlin (2012), 2021 renamed into Vanessa Carlow Urbanism Research Architecture.
Carlow studied architecture and urban design at TU Berlin and TU Delft (1995-2002). She holds a joined MA in Urban Management from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Copenhagen University, Ca Foscari Venice, Autonomous University Barcelona and Antwerp University (2004), and a PhD from the Center for Strategic Planning at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2012).
In 2013, Carlow was appointed Member of the German Association of Architects (BDA) and auditor of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB).
Vanessa Carlow has lectured and taught at universities worldwide, including Tsinghua University, Tongji University, Riseba Riga, Penn State University and Cornell University.
Vanessa Carlow’s research explores sustainable land use patterns, urban form and practices, urban-rural relations, public spaces and infrastructures, and participatory planning. She has been co-spokesperson of the core research area Future City at TU Braunschweig since 2015.Her professional work has garnered prestigious prizes, including the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale (2006, Best National Pavilion) and the MIPIM Award Cannes (2012)-