Published February 23, 2026
| Version 0.1
Software
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UrbanWaterBlocks v0.1
Contributors
Research group (5):
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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ
Description
UrbanWaterBlocks is a comprehensive and automated Python toolkit for supporting decentralized urban water management at the block scale.
The toolkit provides:
1. Generation of urban blocks of any city from street networks.
2. Calculation of key spatial and demographic attributes for each block.
3. Computation of decentralized stormwater potential (LID sizing and performance).
Files
urbanwaterblocks-main.zip
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Additional details
Related works
- Documents
- Journal article: 10.1016/j.scs.2026.107244 (DOI)
Funding
- European Commission
- MULTISOURCE - ModULar Tools for Integrating enhanced natural treatment SOlutions in URban water CyclEs 101003527
- European Commission
- WATERUN - Innovative methodology to prevent and mitigate diffuse pollution from urban water runoff 101060922
- Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
- Urban Transformations towards Blue-Green Infrastructures – UT-UBGI KA-HSC-16