Research

The Brussels Centre for Urban Studies represents more than twenty research groups that all do research on urban themes from their own disciplinary perspectives, but also believe in the added value of research collaborations between and across research groups. Please scroll down for a list of all ongoing and completed urban studies projects or read more.

Development of contextual feedback mechanisms to reduce residential energy consumption ›

Sophie Chamart, Filip Descamps
Research Ongoing Architectural Engineering (æ-LAB)
Discrimination Barometer ›

2013-2014. Research on the public housing sector. Interfederal Centre for Equal Opportunities funding.

Michael Ryckewaert, Kristien Van den Houte
Research Completed Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research
Diversity of Work in the Creative and Cultural Industries ›

Making it work for Brussels. Innoviris Anticipate funding

Bas van Heur, Eva Swyngedouw, Walter Ysebaert
Research Ongoing Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Data and Policy (RUDP)
Drought related vulnerability and risk assessment of ground water resources in Belgium (GroWaDRISK) ›

Research Programme Science for a Sustainable Development, Belgian Science Policy | 2012–2016

Frank Canters
Research Ongoing Cartography and GIS (CGIS)
Dynamics of Virtual Work ›

COST Action, 2012-

Shenja van der Graaf
Research Ongoing Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunicaton (SMIT)
Early towns in the southern North Sea region – the formation and lifecycle of (pre-)urban soils from an archaeological and micromorphological perspective, AD 400-1000 ›

Research Ongoing Brussels Heritage Lab (BREL)
ECIM: European Cloud Marketplace for Intelligent Mobility ›

EU funding, 2014-

Wim Vanobberghen, Jonas Breuer, Gorazd Marinic
Research Ongoing Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunicaton (SMIT)
Ecosystem services for the sustainable development of the Brussels Capital Region ›

2014-2018. Towards an ecological approach for urban design and planning. Innoviris Prospective Research for Brussels funding

Philip Stessens, Frank Canters, Marijke Huysmans
Research Ongoing Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering (HYDR), Cartography and GIS (CGIS)
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Combining housing, facilities and transport infrastructure in Brussels

Michael Ryckewaert, Stefan De Corte, Jens Aerts
Research Completed Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research
Engineered timber - Appraisal of historical timber roof structures in 19th- and early 20th-century Belgium ›

Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT), 2015 - 2018

Louis Vandenabeele, Inge Bertels, Ine Wouters
Research Ongoing Architectural Engineering (æ-LAB)
Enhancing the adaptable capacity of urban fragments ›

VITO - Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek, 2011-2015

Pieter Herthogs, Niels De Temmerman
Research Ongoing Architectural Engineering (æ-LAB)
Entrepreneurial strategies of building contractors ›

The case of Antwerp, 1490-1670. Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, 2013-2016

Heidi Deneweth
Research Ongoing Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes (HOST)

Development of contextual feedback mechanisms to reduce residential energy consumption ›

Sophie Chamart, Filip Descamps

Discrimination Barometer ›

2013-2014. Research on the public housing sector. Interfederal Centre for Equal Opportunities funding.

Michael Ryckewaert, Kristien Van den Houte

Diversity of Work in the Creative and Cultural Industries ›

Making it work for Brussels. Innoviris Anticipate funding

Bas van Heur, Eva Swyngedouw, Walter Ysebaert

Drought related vulnerability and risk assessment of ground water resources in Belgium (GroWaDRISK) ›

Research Programme Science for a Sustainable Development, Belgian Science Policy | 2012–2016

Frank Canters

Dynamics of Virtual Work ›

COST Action, 2012-

Shenja van der Graaf

Early towns in the southern North Sea region – the formation and lifecycle of (pre-)urban soils from an archaeological and micromorphological perspective, AD 400-1000 ›

ECIM: European Cloud Marketplace for Intelligent Mobility ›

EU funding, 2014-

Wim Vanobberghen, Jonas Breuer, Gorazd Marinic

Ecosystem services for the sustainable development of the Brussels Capital Region ›

2014-2018. Towards an ecological approach for urban design and planning. Innoviris Prospective Research for Brussels funding

Philip Stessens, Frank Canters, Marijke Huysmans

End of line ›

Combining housing, facilities and transport infrastructure in Brussels

Michael Ryckewaert, Stefan De Corte, Jens Aerts

Engineered timber - Appraisal of historical timber roof structures in 19th- and early 20th-century Belgium ›

Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT), 2015 - 2018

Louis Vandenabeele, Inge Bertels, Ine Wouters

Enhancing the adaptable capacity of urban fragments ›

VITO - Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek, 2011-2015

Pieter Herthogs, Niels De Temmerman

Entrepreneurial strategies of building contractors ›

The case of Antwerp, 1490-1670. Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, 2013-2016

Heidi Deneweth

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