How to Use Spatial Analysis for a Circular Economy

Understand values in spatial patterns

On this two-week course, you’ll broaden your understanding of urban metabolism and the territorial relations to circular economy, morphology, and systemic design.

Developing your skills in spatial analysis, you’ll explore methods of mapping and analysing specific value webs and their spatial patterns across a given region.

You’ll learn how to use four different methods of spatial analysis, then apply them to the situation in your region. With this knowledge, you’ll be able to promote a more circular economy.

Unpack urban metabolism

Delving further into urban metabolism, you’ll analyse the different resources used within a city and how they can contribute to growth.

With this knowledge, you’ll be able to draw conclusions about the relation of flows and stock from the morphological patterns of your chosen region.

Explore the value chain

Finally, you’ll explore the value chain and how it can be used to determine the full life cycle of processes within a city.

This knowledge will help you gain a comprehensive understanding of the activity within your chosen region so you can make better decisions to aid growth.

Learn from the experts at TU Delft

Throughout the course, you’ll learn from the expert researchers at TU Delft. With their guidance, you’ll gain the knowledge skills you need to carry out systemic analysis within your region.

This course is primarily designed for those working or studying spatial planning or circularity and looking to bridge the gap between them.

It will also be of interest to those working in urban planning departments.

• The Theory of Systemic Design
• Introduction
• What is Systemic Design?
• Assignment: Select a Value Chain
• Week 1 Wrap-up
• Analysing and Redesigning Systemically
• Introduction
• Methods for Systemic Design: Analysis
• Methods for Systemic Design: Design
• Assignment: Value Chain in your Case Study Region
• Course Test
• Week 2 Wrap-up and Next Steps