David Adade completes his doctoral research

The session was held in a hybrid format, as the external examiner, Prof. Hartmann from TU Dortmund, was only available online. Prof. Kolbe and Prof. de Vries complete the examination committee. The aim of the dissertation is to investigate the conditions under which citizens can utilise urban digital twins to advance their land-use claims, issues, and proposals within a policy system and thus influence land policy agenda-setting. Investigating how much, in what ways, and under what conditions digital twins effectively enhance agenda-setting and participatory approaches could improve understanding of this technology. The dissertation of David Adade was built on 4 published articles: 

ADADE, D. & DE VRIES, W. T. 2023. Digital Twin for Active Stakeholder Participation in Land-Use Planning. Land, 12, 538.

ADADE, D. & DE VRIES, W. T. 2025a. An extended TOE framework for local government technology adoption for citizen participation: Insights for city digital twins for collaborative planning. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 19, 53–73.

ADADE, D. & DE VRIES, W. T. 2025b. A systematic review of digital twins’ potential for citizen participation and influence in land use agenda-setting. Discover Sustainability, 6, 354.

ADADE, D. & DE VRIES, W. T. 2026. Examining the role of urban digital twins for climate-neutral agenda-setting and citizen participation in Munich using an adapted multiple streams framework. Discover Sustainability (in Press)