Urban soils play a pivotal role in delivering ecosystem services, supporting biodiversity and enhancing climate resilience within cities. This research line builds on research of Nele Delbecque highlighting challenges in measuring urban soil properties and predicting their functioning. Local targeted studies will progressively feed the huge data gaps. Research on spatially explicit assessments of soil-related ecosystem services serves soil policy, security and urban development. This entails integrating novel geostatistical tools and alternative soil-landscape models with interdisciplinary approaches to evaluate water regulation, carbon storage, and pollutant buffering, … tailored to urban contexts. The research exploits collaboration with colleagues in soil, water, biodiversity and geospatial modelling to deliver actionable frameworks that safeguard and utilize urban soils as a critical resource for resilient and liveable cities.