Koenraad Danneels (KU Leuven) explores compensatory landscapes as a concept through which we can question the nature of ecological urbanism today, at the intersection of environmental degradation, urban development and landscape design. In urban planning and landscape studies, there is currently virtually no debate on the spatial dynamics created by the compensation of environmental damage. Yet green urban landscapes are increasingly being developed through biodiversity offsetting, i.e. the process by which open spaces destroyed by urban development are replaced elsewhere. Through the spatialization of offsetting, linking offsetting with urban planning research, and paying attention to landscape design, the presentation aims to examine offsetting as a project of spatial socio-urbanization.

With Allan Wei (LIEU), moderating.

An event co-organised by iiTSE.

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