Soil: The Hidden Foundation of Sustainable Planning1 Sep 2025In cities dominated by concrete, steel, and glass, it is easy to overlook the living ground beneath our feet. Yet a walk through a park or garden reveals...Read more
SPADES Releases Diagnosis Workbook for Pilot Regions1 Sep 2025The SPADES consortium has released its Diagnosis Workbook, a major milestone in the project’s mission to integrate soil into spatial planning and design ...Read more
Urban and Peri-urban SPADES in Baia Mare: First Workshop - Launching the Diagnosis Phase26 Aug 2025The first SPADES workshop in the Baia Mare Metropolitan Area has just concluded, marking the beginning of the diagnosis phase for the pilot site. The eve...Read more
Urban and Peri-urban Soil and Hydrology in Romania4 Aug 2025Recently, Romania has been facing one of its most critical hydrological alerts. The National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management issued Code Red ...Read more
SPADES needs you!4 Aug 2025SPADES is developing a navigator which aims to provide tools, data, guidance and best practices to increase the uptake of soil in land planning. The main...Read more
Urban and Peri-urban SPADES City Grenoble wins 2025 Local Sustainability Award with transformative redesign of school areas1 Aug 2025We are proud to announce that SPADES City Grenoble has been awarded the Local Sustainability Award this year!Read more
July NetworkNature Reads: The Book of Hope1 Aug 2025This July, SPADES colleague Lucia Rua was featured in NetworkNature Reads! What is NetworkNature Reads?#NetworkNatureReads is inspired by #ReadingRainbow...Read more
Planning never finishes, soil is a continuum31 Jul 2025Making European planning more soil-inclusive through the SPADES projectThe Spatial Planning and Design with Soil (SPADES) project is working to make plan...Read more
Soil Functions and Related Ecosystem Services for sustainable cities - takeaways from the webinar2 Jul 2025The Institute for Urban Excellence (iUE) organized an internationalwebinar on Soil for Sustainable Cities on June 25th 2025 as part of its broader missi...Read more