2. International Federation for Housing & Planning
IFHP AGENDAS
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27. ”There are risks and costs
to a program of action.
But they are far less than
the long range risks and costs
of comfortable inaction”
JFK
Risk of Inaction
28. Visions of the Future
”The City of Future”
Harvey Wiley Corbett
Scientific American, 1913
”Metropolis” Film Set
Erich Kettelhut 1925
IFHP – Who we are
Members in more than 80 countries around the world. Different types of activitites, some which is IFHP’s, some which are parnterships, some which is IFHP nationally. New will be launched to fit the members’ needs. Members have great possibility to influence and take activities forward.
IFHP facilitate people meet people. It’s about network, dialogues, making entry points available for each other.
Overall value propositionINTERACT WITH PEOPLE WHO MAKE WISER CITIES
MissionCOMBINE KNOWLEDGE AND ACTORS ELEVATING SPECIFIC URBAN CHALLENGES
VisionMAKE WISER CITIES MATTER GLOBALLY
PassionPASSIONATE ABOUT MAKING CITIES BETTER PLACES FOR PEOPLE
DEFINITION
A wise city shows the way forward by being open-minded, exploring root causes, addressing them and continuously learning through an iterative approach
derived from the Latin root ”to jump or leap back”
is the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.
”the capacity to deal with change and continue to develop”
Resilience Dictionary,Stockholm Resilience Center
www.stockholmresilience.org
Resilience Science
Canadian ecologist C.S. “Buzz” Holling, 1973,
humans and nature are strongly coupled and co-evolving, and should therefore be conceived of as one “social-ecological” system.
2) the long-held assumption that systems respond to change in a linear, predictable fashion is simply wrong.
According to resilience thinking:
systems are in constant flux;
they are highly unpredictable and self-organizing,
with feedbacks across time and space.
a multi-level understanding of the resilience of urban systems which recognises:
the role of metabolic flows in sustaining urban functions, human well-being and quality of life
governance networks and the ability of society to learn, adapt and reorganise to meet urban challenges
the social dynamics of people as citizens, members of communities, users of services, consumers of products ..
the relationship with the built environment which defines the physical patterns of urban form and their spatial relations and interconnections
Source: McKinsey Global Institute Citycope 1.0:
Dark blue dots indicate the 600 largest cities
Light blue dots indicate the 1.400 second biggest cities
Most of the Worlds population lives less than 100 km from the sea!
Which is why we can share experience, solutions and knowledge, - the majority of the cities in the world share a similar geography, though concrete challenges may differ.
Coping with Crisis
Natural
Seasonal Extremes
Snow & Ice
Heavy rain
Shortages
Human
Mass Transit Breakdowns
Traffic Jams
Power outages
Crowd Control
DISASTER
Natural
Earthquakes
Tsunamis
Floods
Storms
Fire
Drought
Human
Terrorist Attack
Explosions
Nuclear Accidents
Industrial Accidents
Mass Transit Accidents
Resilience Science
Focuses on tipping points
Many natrual catastrophes gives a greater impact because of town planning – or because of the lack of town planning!
This photo because of the fact of the many cities close to the sea. Here it is the tsunami in Japan in 2012.
Dealing with disaster
Earthquake Response
Tsunami Response
Nuclear Accident Response
So to provide solutions or alternatives to social injustices of rural poverty and the slum conditions of the traditional city the Vision of the City of the Future was the productive & dynamic, clean & efficient city
The key to this was
urban planning driven by function and efficiency
form following function
large-scale affordable housing
So to provide solutions or alternatives to social injustices of rural poverty and the slum conditions of the traditional city the Vision of the City of the Future was the productive & dynamic, clean & efficient city
The key to this was
urban planning driven by function and efficiency
form following function
large-scale affordable housing
So to provide solutions or alternatives to social injustices of rural poverty and the slum conditions of the traditional city the Vision of the City of the Future was the productive & dynamic, clean & efficient city
The key to this was
urban planning driven by function and efficiency
form following function
large-scale affordable housing
It didn’t quite turn out the way the professionals of the past had in mind. Some things cannot be foreseen or imagined! The Economist gave out a special issue in April 2014 about the challenges in China, and Expressway 110 in China; Traffic jams are inherent to the emerging urban landscape of the world’s fastest growing cities. Congestions causes by traffic is inextricably linked to the new urban landscape. And we have only seen the top of the iceberg
So to provide solutions or alternatives to social injustices of rural poverty and the slum conditions of the traditional city the Vision of the City of the Future was the productive & dynamic, clean & efficient city
The key to this was
urban planning driven by function and efficiency
form following function
large-scale affordable housing
Using the last 100-years of experience as a stepping-stone for moving forward
We are here to stay. We are not an one-night-stand. IFHP is the access to a Global network of professionals in the field of Urban delvelopment.
We are 10 persons at the Copenhagen Office, but our members are active in our activities and development which is much more valauble than the staffs efforts.We have a field office at FAU-PUCRS – Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil (photo of Ole, Paulo and Renee, 2013)
NGO, member-based and –driven organization which (May 2014) is in a transition where we have begun to develop new activities to fit the new century for the organization. More to come!
Founder: Ebenezer Howard, Garden City movement.