East Meets West 2010 - McGregor Coxall
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Cities have become the primary habitat for humans with more than fifty percent of the global population now living in them. The biocity model considers the city as a bionic biotope, a connected web of ten macro systems that can be used for integrated planning to help cities adapt to modern challenges.
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- 1. Adrian McGregor EAST MEETS WEST the biocity paradigm
- 2. “The so called global economy was not a permanent institution, but a set of transient circumstances peculiar to a time, the Indian Summer of the fossil fuel era” ! James Kunstler - The Long Emergency
- 4. crude
- 5. first commercial oil extraction in the US - 1850’s
- 7. 0 20 40 60 80 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 World Liquid Oil & Gas Production World Oil Consumption BillionBarrelsPerYear CONSUMPTION VS OIL PRODUCTIONglobal consumption v’s production
- 8. oil products
- 9. Figure 1. Private transport energy use per capita in 84 cities, 1995. Private Passenger Transport Energy Use per Person, 1995 0 20000 40000 60000 80000 100000 120000 Atlanta Houston Denver SanFrancisco SanDiego Phoenix LosAngeles Washington Chicago NewYork Calgary Toronto Perth Melbourne Vancouver Brisbane Sydney Ottawa Montreal Riyadh Wellington Geneva Oslo Brussels Frankfurt Rome Hamburg Nantes Stockholm Marseille Zurich Ruhr Lyon Newcastle Munich Vienna Stuttgart Glasgow Paris Dusseldorf Copenhagen Berne Bologna Graz TelAviv Madrid Athens London Sapporo Milan Berlin Amsterdam Manchester Bangkok KualaLumpur Johannesbur Helsinki Tokyo Singapore SaoPaulo Osaka Taipei Seoul Curitiba Prague Budapest Barcelona CapeTown Harare Tehran Tunis HongKong Manila Cracow Jakarta Beijing Bogota Guangzhou Cairo Chennai Shanghai Mumbai Dakar HoChiMinh Cities Private passenger transport energy use per person 1995 Jeffrey Kenworthy
- 10. food security will be threatened as oil costs increase
- 11. 0 2.5 5 7.5 10 1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050 2100 World population in billions 0 25000 50000 75000 100000 1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050 2100 Species Extinction 0 20 1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050 2100 World population growth rate in millions per half century Commercial Oil Production Begins Sources: UN, 1999, US Census 2005, www.umaine.edu/sustainability/Program_Content/species_extinction.htm Peak Oil Oil Supply Exhaustion population increase | global species extinction | oil
- 12. geopolitical instability caused by oil dependence will escalate
- 13. carbon cycle
- 14. atmospheric CO2 | supergreenhouse and ocean acidification The current rate of change ''exceeds any known change in ocean chemistry for at least 800,000 years” US National Research Council
- 15. 0 1250 2500 3750 5000 Coal Oil Natural Gas Safe Carbon Threshold Carbon(BillionTones) CatastrophicClimateChange CARBON CRISIS IPCC projected maximum hydrocarbon output to prevent catastrophic warming Available Hydrocarbon Reserves available carbon vs safe maximum carbon emission limit
- 16. GOLDEN AGE OF THE CITY
- 17. Dubai ‘instant city’ - oil discovered 1966 25% of worlds cranes in 2009
- 18. global building datascape ! Buildings - generate 40 per cent of emissions and are the single largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions [GHG] - demolition and construction waste makes up 40 per cent of landfill - they use 40 per cent of global energy [including embodied energy in materials] - construction uses 32 per cent of the world’s consumed resources - lighting consumes 19 per cent of global electricity ! Green Building Council Australia 2010
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- 29. ANTHROPOCENTRIC CITY MODEL - CITY DIVORCED FROM ECOLOGY natural capital and waste have negligible economic value
- 30. Wetland/Savanah Biotope Forest Biotope Tundra Biotope Urban Biotope - Self contained ecoogical unit - carbon release and sequestration - renewable energy driven - uses bio-economic model that assigns value to natural capital - cradle to crade processes - interacts with adjacent biotopes in mutually benficial relationship Ocean Biotope BIOCITY MODEL city as ecological suprasystem - an urban biotope
- 31. URBAN BIOTOPE 12 MAJOR SYSTEMS
- 33. efficient city – energy used for regeneration not sprawl maximises use of existing infrastructure
- 37. p.5 Top Countries with Installed Renewable Electricity by Technology Solar PV (2006)* å Germany ç Japan é U.S. è Spain ê Italy / Netherlands Biomass (2006) å U.S. ç Brazil é Philippines è Germany / Sweden / Finland Geothermal (2006) å U.S. ç Philippines é Mexico è Indonesia / Italy CSP (2006) å U.S. ç Spain Wind (2006) å Germany ç U.S. é Spain è India ê Denmark Hydropower (2005) å China ç U.S. é Canada è Brazil ê Russia é ê å è ç é åå çé è êå åå ç é èè è ç ç é è è è ç * Grid connected ê ê
- 38. PROJECTS
- 39. PARRAMATTA ROAD | Sydney
- 43. threads!
- 51. EUM YANG | Seoul
- 60. HELLINIKON NEOPOLIS | Athens
- 65. GREEN SQUARE PUBLIC DOMAIN | South Sydney
- 68. civic plaza
- 70. sheas park
- 71. sheas park
- 72. sheas park
- 73. H2O
- 74. H2O
- 75. H2O
- 76. H2O
- 77. BP AND BALLAST POINT PARKS | Sydney
- 79. Photo of original BP
- 94. Ballast - image before as oil
- 96. Ballast - image before as oil
- 97. Masterplan