Kristel Aalbers is specialized in sustainable urban planning, design and architecture with a focus on water. She has experience with the (spatial) integration of flows such as surface water, ecological corridors and (slow) traffic in urban plans and policies for newly built developments and in-town renewals.

Current experience is on the new Dutch Environment and Planning Act (Omgevingswet) and municipalities’ Omgevingsvisies, in which the integration of (sustainability) themes such as water and climate adaptation together with other themes is key.

Selection of graduees supervised in the past years:

– Wang, Jiaqi (2022). Live with Water: A sustainable water-oriented urban development pattern, the Lake Chao Basin as a study case

– Leltz, A. (2021). Water sensitive sustainable urban adaptation

– Min, A.W. (2019). New perspective on the [food] landscapes in MRA 2050

– Lohuizen, J.E. (2014). Climate adaptive solutions for the neighbourhood

– Galama, A. (2016). Empower the energy landscape of Friesland