Soil: From Conservation to Modification ‘No Net Land Taken’ in Flanders
(2019) Beyond resilience. “Towards a more integrated and inclusive urban design” — ISBN: [978-90-7865-18-40], published
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- Every day tons of hectares of soils are being urbanised (i.e. 6ha/day in Flanders; 129 ha/day in Germany), decreasing soil permeability and therefore increasing climate and environmental risk (i.e. flooding, heat waves, pollution). To stop this process, Europe aims to reduce the daily net take to 0 by 2050. For facing such an important challenge, it is today of paramount importance to reconsider soil as a resource for cities and territories. In this perspective, the relation between city and soil needs to be reconceived. To fully investigate this relation, soil could be considered on a threefold basis: described throughout its historical depth (as a palimpsest); analysed as an environmental resource (as an ecosystem); and ultimately explored as an evolutionary potential for transformation (as a design subject). This paper, via a territorial analysis of the region of Flanders, explores the notion of resilience as a process of evolution and hence of transformation.
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Cavalieri, C. (2019). Soil: From Conservation to Modification ‘No Net Land Taken’ in Flanders. In Jo Santoso, Maria Brigita, Regina Suryadjaja, Nadia Ayu Rahma Lestari (ed.), Beyond resilience. “Towards a more integrated and inclusive urban design”. International Forum on Urbanism. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/247373