Sanda Lenzholzer

Biographic Data

ID6158271
NAMESanda Lenzholzer
GIVEN NAMESSanda
FAMILY NAMELenzholzer
SIGNATURELENZHOLZER S
AFFILIATIONSWageningen University & Research
ORCID0000-0002-5417-1804
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Greening guidelines for cooling European neighbourhoods with temperate climate: A research-through-design approach

    Open AccessYehan Wu, Agnès Patuano et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2026

    Green infrastructure measures such as street tree planting and ground surface greening effectively mitigate urban heat. As heat stress intensifies, identifying effective spatial arrangements of these interventions becomes increasingly important. To provide actionable guidance for real-world projects, practical design and resource constraints must also be considered. However, studies that systematically balance cooling effectiveness with practical…

  • How small green spaces cool urban neighbourhoods: Optimising distribution, size and shape

    Open AccessYehan Wu, Agnès Patuano et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2025

    Green space design guidelines are generated based on four neighbourhood typologies. • Inside green spaces, mean PET can vary up to 4 °C among different design scenarios. • Grouping several small green areas cools neighbourhoods most effectively. • Small green spaces scattered in a neighbourhood are the least effective strategy. How can green spaces smaller than 1 ha improve outdoor thermal conditions in urban neighbourhoods? Considering the varia…

  • The spatial design of domestic colonies: A literature review

    Open AccessIneke Nel, Elyze Storms-Smeets et al.ARTICLELandscape Research2025

    This literature review investigates how the social ideals of domestic colonies manifested in their spatial design during the 19th and early 20th century, by using landscape and urban design principles. Although research on domestic colonies has identified common social ideals, less is known about how they materialised spatially and whether identifiable design principles emerged across this transnational movement. Our findings reveal that ‘choice …

  • Implementation of urban climate-responsive design strategies: An international overview

    Open AccessSjoerd Brandsma, Sanda Lenzholzer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Design2024

    Urban climatic challenges can motivate urban planners and designers to implement urban climate-responsive design strategies.But does this process occur sufficiently, and if not, why?This study explores the implementation of urban climate-responsive design strategies, potential functional and aesthetic conflicts, availability of policy instruments that support implementation, strengths and weaknesses, and missed opportunities for integrating agend…

  • The ‘cooling urban water environments’ concept: Potential for application in practice

    Open AccessJoão Cortesão, S Koopmans et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Design2024

    Research indicates that water in small water bodies has negligible cooling effects, but also that its surrounding environment can be designed to become cooler by applying the ‘cooling urban water environments’ concept. However, this concept was created for generic urban environments and not tested in practice. This study applies this concept to a specific urban environment, tests its micrometeorological performance and surveys how urban designers…

  • Historical vegetation for microclimate amelioration: A case study for The Netherlands

    Open AccessMichiel Bakx, Sanda LenzholzerARTICLELandscape Research2023References: 41

    Current solutions for climate amelioration require excessive amounts of energy, such as air conditioners and patio heaters. Yet, historical energy-passive climate-responsive design solutions exist that have a potential for outdoor microclimate control. Regarding these solutions, there was no overview of historical vegetation for microclimate amelioration in oceanic climate zones. We therefore explored historical vegetation types for microclimate …

  • Research through design in urban and landscape design practice

    Open AccessJoão Cortesão, Sanda LenzholzerARTICLEJournal of Urban Design2022

    This study takes stock on how research through design (RTD) is interpreted in urban and landscape design practice in relation to the scholarly meaning of RTD. The results indicate that the term ‘RTD’ in Dutch practice largely refers to the typical procedures and resources of a practical design process. This interpretation differs from definitions of scholarly RTD which have more focus on the rigid testing of design alternatives. Such a scholarly …

  • Heat-prone neighbourhood typologies of European cities with temperate climate

    Open AccessYehan Wu, Bardia Mashhoodi et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2022

    Outdoor microclimates vary among different urban neighbourhoods depending on their morphological variations. The Local Climate Zone (LCZ) framework is a well-developed typomorphological classification used to capture the variation that characterises neighbourhood microclimates. However, it does not include detailed morphological parameters within neighbourhoods that have synergistic effects on microclimates. It is thus essential to develop neighb…

  • Visual guidelines for climate-responsive urban design

    Open AccessJoão Cortesão, Sanda Lenzholzer et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2020

  • Street greenery and its physical and psychological impact on thermal comfort

    Open AccessWiebke Klemm, B G Heusinkveld et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2015