eprintid: 10199316 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/19/93/16 datestamp: 2024-11-01 14:59:00 lastmod: 2024-11-01 14:59:00 status_changed: 2024-11-01 14:59:00 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Borham, Omar creators_name: Croxford, Ben creators_name: Wilson, Duncan title: Biomimetic Strategies for Sustainable Resilient Cities: Review across Scales and City Systems ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C04 divisions: F34 divisions: F40 divisions: F39 keywords: Biomimicry; sustainability; built environment; energy efficiency; resource efficiency note: © 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). abstract: Biomimicry applications in different domains, from material science to technology, have proven to be promising in inspiring innovative solutions for present-day challenges. However, biomimetic applications in the built environment face several barriers including the absence of biological knowledge of architects and planners and the lack of an adequate common means to transfer biomimetic concepts into strategies applicable in the urban context. This review aims to create a multidimensional relational database of biomimetic strategies from successful precedent case studies in the built environment across different city systems and on different application scales. To achieve this, a thorough systematic search of the literature was implemented to map relevant biomimetic case studies, which are analyzed to extract biomimetic strategies that proved to be applicable and successful in an urban context. These strategies are then classified and documented in a relational database. This will provide a guide for architects and planners on how to transfer biomimetic strategies to strategies applicable in the urban context, thus bridging the gap of their lack of biological knowledge. The resulting matrix of strategies provides potential strategies across most of the different city systems and scales with few exceptions. This gap will be covered in a future work, currently in progress, to expand the database to include all city systems and scales. date: 2024-09 date_type: published publisher: MDPI official_url: https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics9090514 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2308737 doi: 10.3390/biomimetics9090514 medium: Electronic pii: biomimetics9090514 lyricists_name: Croxford, Ben lyricists_name: Wilson, Duncan lyricists_name: Borham, Omar lyricists_id: BJFCR68 lyricists_id: DJWIL04 lyricists_id: OMBOR96 actors_name: Borham, Omar actors_id: OMBOR96 actors_role: owner funding_acknowledgements: NMM13/21 [MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION OF THE ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT]; [ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT] full_text_status: public publication: Biomimetics volume: 9 number: 9 article_number: 514 pages: 30 event_location: Switzerland issn: 2313-7673 citation: Borham, Omar; Croxford, Ben; Wilson, Duncan; (2024) Biomimetic Strategies for Sustainable Resilient Cities: Review across Scales and City Systems. Biomimetics , 9 (9) , Article 514. 10.3390/biomimetics9090514 <https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics9090514>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10199316/1/biomimetics-09-00514.pdf