09-12-2025
Sameeksha Madhav, from University of Liége presented her ongoing PhD research at the International Land Use Symposium (ILUS 2025) in Dresden, Germany.
Her talk “Urban Block Archetypes for Circular Urban Regeneration” explored how the urban block, this often-overlooked scale between buildings and neighborhoods, can become a powerful analytical unit to measure morphology, material flows, and environmental performance across European cities.
Using a data-driven, geospatial workflow, she has been working on:
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Delineating and analyzing thousands of urban blocks in Liège, Verviers, Zaragoza, and Heerlen
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Performing sensitivity analyses to test parameter robustness
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Building a harmonized dataset that will soon feed into LCA and MFA-based circularity assessments
Supervised by Jacques Teller, she has carried out all this work in the framework of DECUB project, in tasks related to WP3.- Characterization of urban archetypes, material flow analysis and environmental performance calculation
After the presentation, assistants asked some interesting questions such as: Why this scale? How does it connect to digital twins? Can this method work globally? that should be properly answered alongside project development