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The Forest Figure as Strategic Tool for Urban Transition

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: If the ambition of the Flemish territory is to become more forested, then an approximation is needed between forest and urbanization processes. Forest expansion can only be realized by developing a new understanding between forest and urbanization. This article discusses urban design explorations that stimulate a spatial transformation grafted on the forest as a structuring element of the Western Witness Hills of Leuven, through the ‘forest figure’. The forest figure is explored as a concept able to incorporate and mould urban and forest ambitions into a workable spatial frame.

Source: SPOOL

DOI: 10.47982/spool.2025.1.04

Authors: Wim Wambecq, Bruno De Meulder

Institution: KU Leuven

Language: English

Topic: Urban Planning and Landscape Design

Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Life on land

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: KU Leuven