Summarised Proceedings of the Conference on the Metropolitan
Forest Competition held online in july 2020 and organized by Madrid City Coucil, itdUPM and EIT Climate-KIC
This document discusses solutions for improving poor urban areas in Latin America in a sustainable way. It proposes a framework using guidelines, tools like GIS, and a geodesign approach to understand communities and identify interventions. Case studies show restoring existing developments and infrastructure, rather than relocation, helps preserve social networks. Participatory planning is key. Successful projects in Venezuela integrated basic needs with social and aesthetic values through upgrading public spaces and condominiums in a friendly manner.
Ecosistema Urbano is an interdisciplinary design group based in Madrid that focuses on urban social design. They view design holistically by considering citizens, social dynamics, and relationships between people and their environment. Their approach centers around three main topics: social issues, the environment, and technology. They demonstrate three strategies through case studies in Madrid - transforming existing spaces, designing responsive environments, and raising environmental awareness. Their goal is to improve everyday life and social issues through collaborative, technology-driven design.
HOW TO MAKE THE UTOPIA OF BUILDING GREEN AND SMART CITIES A REALITY IN ALL CO...Faga1939
This article aims to present how to make the utopia of building green and smart cities in all countries come true to eliminate the dystopia represented by increasingly degraded cities in the vast majority of countries in the world. Building green cities means making cities sustainable. Every city reaches the condition of smart city when its managers consider it as a system and make use of information technology in its planning and control process. Sustainable cities are cities that have an economic and social development policy compatible with the natural and built environment. Making a sustainable city is not an easy task, but it is not an impossible task either. The big challenge is to think about all the parts related to the construction of a city in a systemic way, encompassing economic, social and environmental aspects. Every city reaches the condition of smart city when its managers consider it as a system and make use of information technology in its planning and control process, counting on the effective support of its population. Information technology allows city managers to interact directly with their executing agencies and with the population and monitor what is happening in the city and how the city is evolving in real time. It can be said that most global environmental problems originate in cities, which makes it difficult for them to be sustainable without at the same time being smart cities. It is imperative, therefore, that cities are sustainable and intelligent.
www.docgreen.it - 5 capitolo del manuale *Urban and Periurban Forests. Management, monitoring and eco system services*.
Il manuale è stato concepito come un prodotto multimediale continuamente aperto ad aggiornamenti e arricchimenti. Rappresenta il risultato del lavoro di un équipe multidisciplinare che ha affrontato, da più punti di vista, il tema delle foreste urbane e periurbane, offrendo riflessioni, spunti e indicazioni tecnico/scientifiche in merito alla loro pianificazione, monitoraggio e manutenzione.
Per questo il manuale costituisce un utile strumento per tecnici, professionisti, amministratori coinvolti nella gestione del patrimonio verde urbano e periurbano.
this ppt is made by shrikrishna kesharwani , final year student of manit Bhopal, in this ppt I have given information about the sustainable metropolitan development scheme in detail.
The Congress for the New Urbanism views issues like sprawl, segregation, environmental damage, and loss of heritage as interconnected problems. They advocate for restoring existing city centers, reconfiguring suburbs into walkable neighborhoods, and conserving natural environments through public policy and development practices. This includes designing communities that are pedestrian-friendly, transit-accessible, and promote diversity through mixed-use development and affordable housing options distributed throughout regions.
HOW THE GOVERNMENT OF BRAZIL CAN MAKE BRAZILIAN CITIES SUSTAINABLE AND SMART.pdfFaga1939
This article aims to present how the Brazilian government can make Brazilian cities environmentally sustainable and smart. The city will reach the condition of sustainable when it is contributing to the well-being of its population, which is its main objective without harming the environment. Every city reaches the condition of smart city when its managers consider it as a system and make use of information technology in its planning and control process, counting on the effective support of its population. Sustainable cities are the key to achieving social well-being for their populations and achieving climate goals for the entire planet that contribute to avoiding catastrophic global climate change. In turn, smart cities will make sustainable cities leverage their actions in achieving the well-being of their populations and in facing global climate change.
This document discusses solutions for improving poor urban areas in Latin America in a sustainable way. It proposes a framework using guidelines, tools like GIS, and a geodesign approach to understand communities and identify interventions. Case studies show restoring existing developments and infrastructure, rather than relocation, helps preserve social networks. Participatory planning is key. Successful projects in Venezuela integrated basic needs with social and aesthetic values through upgrading public spaces and condominiums in a friendly manner.
Ecosistema Urbano is an interdisciplinary design group based in Madrid that focuses on urban social design. They view design holistically by considering citizens, social dynamics, and relationships between people and their environment. Their approach centers around three main topics: social issues, the environment, and technology. They demonstrate three strategies through case studies in Madrid - transforming existing spaces, designing responsive environments, and raising environmental awareness. Their goal is to improve everyday life and social issues through collaborative, technology-driven design.
HOW TO MAKE THE UTOPIA OF BUILDING GREEN AND SMART CITIES A REALITY IN ALL CO...Faga1939
This article aims to present how to make the utopia of building green and smart cities in all countries come true to eliminate the dystopia represented by increasingly degraded cities in the vast majority of countries in the world. Building green cities means making cities sustainable. Every city reaches the condition of smart city when its managers consider it as a system and make use of information technology in its planning and control process. Sustainable cities are cities that have an economic and social development policy compatible with the natural and built environment. Making a sustainable city is not an easy task, but it is not an impossible task either. The big challenge is to think about all the parts related to the construction of a city in a systemic way, encompassing economic, social and environmental aspects. Every city reaches the condition of smart city when its managers consider it as a system and make use of information technology in its planning and control process, counting on the effective support of its population. Information technology allows city managers to interact directly with their executing agencies and with the population and monitor what is happening in the city and how the city is evolving in real time. It can be said that most global environmental problems originate in cities, which makes it difficult for them to be sustainable without at the same time being smart cities. It is imperative, therefore, that cities are sustainable and intelligent.
www.docgreen.it - 5 capitolo del manuale *Urban and Periurban Forests. Management, monitoring and eco system services*.
Il manuale è stato concepito come un prodotto multimediale continuamente aperto ad aggiornamenti e arricchimenti. Rappresenta il risultato del lavoro di un équipe multidisciplinare che ha affrontato, da più punti di vista, il tema delle foreste urbane e periurbane, offrendo riflessioni, spunti e indicazioni tecnico/scientifiche in merito alla loro pianificazione, monitoraggio e manutenzione.
Per questo il manuale costituisce un utile strumento per tecnici, professionisti, amministratori coinvolti nella gestione del patrimonio verde urbano e periurbano.
this ppt is made by shrikrishna kesharwani , final year student of manit Bhopal, in this ppt I have given information about the sustainable metropolitan development scheme in detail.
The Congress for the New Urbanism views issues like sprawl, segregation, environmental damage, and loss of heritage as interconnected problems. They advocate for restoring existing city centers, reconfiguring suburbs into walkable neighborhoods, and conserving natural environments through public policy and development practices. This includes designing communities that are pedestrian-friendly, transit-accessible, and promote diversity through mixed-use development and affordable housing options distributed throughout regions.
HOW THE GOVERNMENT OF BRAZIL CAN MAKE BRAZILIAN CITIES SUSTAINABLE AND SMART.pdfFaga1939
This article aims to present how the Brazilian government can make Brazilian cities environmentally sustainable and smart. The city will reach the condition of sustainable when it is contributing to the well-being of its population, which is its main objective without harming the environment. Every city reaches the condition of smart city when its managers consider it as a system and make use of information technology in its planning and control process, counting on the effective support of its population. Sustainable cities are the key to achieving social well-being for their populations and achieving climate goals for the entire planet that contribute to avoiding catastrophic global climate change. In turn, smart cities will make sustainable cities leverage their actions in achieving the well-being of their populations and in facing global climate change.
This document discusses sustainable urban development and compact cities. It provides examples of integrated transport and land use planning approaches that promote sustainability, such as transit-oriented development, the Dutch ABC Strategy, Curitiba's linear public transport network, and the networked city concept of linking smaller cities through telematics. The document emphasizes compact, mixed-use development that enables public transport and reduces car dependency to minimize environmental impacts.
Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour (ABC): The Science of the City
Naples, March 2016
Presentation by Luigi Fusco Girard
Background: the challenges
This Meeting
Some expected conclusions
The document discusses the purpose and goals of the KAIRÓS Network project. The project aims to address urban environmental challenges in partner cities by using cultural heritage and tourism to promote social and economic revitalization of degraded historic areas. It will work to conserve cultural/natural spaces and engage local communities and stakeholders to develop sustainable cultural eco-tourism. This will improve cities' cultural assets, increase visitors, and benefit residents through new employment and social inclusion opportunities while achieving sustainability goals. The partner cities have significant cultural heritage in need of regeneration to attract residents and tourists alike.
Larsen, I., Backlund, A. 2003: Denmark - Ecological Sanitation - Sustainable ...Arne Backlund
The document summarizes the results of a project in Denmark that tested the use of diverting dry toilets without water flushing in 89 allotment gardens. Key findings include:
- Users found the toilets easy to install, clean, and empty, and had very few problems.
- Daily use of the toilets was generally problem-free, though some women had difficulty aiming into the urine bowl initially.
- Issues with flies, noise, and smells were minimal and easily addressed by users.
- Urine collected was highly concentrated and low in heavy metals and organic compounds, making it well-suited for use as fertilizer.
- No bacterial or parasitic infectious micro
The Congress for the New Urbanism views disinvestment in centr.docxrtodd643
The Congress for the New Urbanism views disinvestment in central cities, the
spread of placeless sprawl, increasing separation by race and income, environmental
deterioration, loss of agricultural lands and wilderness, and the erosion of society’s
built heritage as one interrelated community-building challenge.
We stand for the restoration of existing urban centers and towns within coherent
metropolitan regions, the reconfiguration of sprawling suburbs into communities of
real neighborhoods and diverse districts, the conservation of natural environments,
and the preservation of our built legacy.
We advocate the restructuring of public policy and development practices to
support the following principles: neighborhoods should be diverse in use and
population; communities should be designed for the pedestrian and transit as well
as the car; cities and towns should be shaped by physically defined and universally
accessible public spaces and community institutions; urban places should be framed
by architecture and landscape design that celebrate local history, climate, ecology,
and building practice.
We recognize that physical solutions by themselves will not solve social and economic
problems, but neither can economic vitality, community stability, and environmental
health be sustained without a coherent and supportive physical framework.
We represent a broad-based citizenry, composed of public and private sector
leaders, community activists, and multidisciplinary professionals. We are committed
to reestablishing the relationship between the art of building and the making
of community, through citizen-based participatory planning and design.
We dedicate ourselves to reclaiming our homes, blocks, streets, parks, neighborhoods,
districts, towns, cities, regions, and environment.
Continued on back...
1) Metropolitan regions are finite places with
geographic boundaries derived from topography,
watersheds, coastlines, farmlands, regional parks,
and river basins. The metropolis is made of
multiple centers that are cities, towns, and villages,
each with its own identifiable center and edges.
2) The metropolitan region is a fundamental
economic unit of the contemporary world.
Governmental cooperation, public policy, physical
planning, and economic strategies must reflect
this new reality.
3) The metropolis has a necessary and fragile
relationship to its agrarian hinterland and natural
landscapes. The relationship is environmental,
economic, and cultural. Farmland and nature are
as important to the metropolis as the garden is
to the house.
4) Development patterns should not blur or
eradicate the edges of the metropolis. Infill
development within existing urban areas
conserves environmental resources, economic
investment, and social fabric, while reclaiming
marginal and abandoned areas. Metropolitan
regions should develop strategies to encourage
such infill development over peripheral expans.
The document outlines 10 key messages for handling cultural heritage in small and medium historic towns. The messages stress: 1) Cultural heritage provides attractiveness and identity for cities. 2) Preservation, rehabilitation, and renovation of existing heritage is key. 3) The public sector plays a lead role in revitalizing historic areas through investments and planning. Citizen participation and public-private partnerships are also important for support. Sustainability and quality are primary goals for cultural heritage renewal.
Urban Public Space Axis Rector of Green Infrastructure in the Current City of...IEREK Press
The current city calls for the reconsideration of a close relationship between gray infrastructure and public spaces, understanding the infrastructure as a set of items, equipment, or services required for the functioning of a country, a City. Ambato, Ecuador, is a current intermediate city, has less than 1% of the urban surface with use of public green spaces, which represents a figure below the 9m2/ hab., recommended by OMS. The aim of this paper was to identify urban public spaces that switches of green infrastructure in the city today, applying a methodology of qualitative studies. With an exploratory descriptive level analysis, in three stages, stage of theoretical foundation product of a review of the existing literature, which is the theoretical support of the relationship gray infrastructure public spaces equal to green infrastructure. Subsequent to this case study, discussed with criteria aimed at green infrastructure and in the public spaces of the study area. Finally, after processing and analysis of the results, we provide conclusions for urban public space as a definition of the green infrastructure of the current city of Latin America; in the latter, the focus is to support this article.
Urban Public Space Axis Rector of Green Infrastructure in the Current City of...IEREK Press
The current city calls for the reconsideration of a close relationship between gray infrastructure and public spaces, understanding the infrastructure as a set of items, equipment, or services required for the functioning of a country, a City. Ambato, Ecuador, is a current intermediate city, has less than 1% of the urban surface with use of public green spaces, which represents a figure below the 9m2/ hab., recommended by OMS. The aim of this paper was to identify urban public spaces that switches of green infrastructure in the city today, applying a methodology of qualitative studies. With an exploratory descriptive level analysis, in three stages, stage of theoretical foundation product of a review of the existing literature, which is the theoretical support of the relationship gray infrastructure public spaces equal to green infrastructure. Subsequent to this case study, discussed with criteria aimed at green infrastructure and in the public spaces of the study area. Finally, after processing and analysis of the results, we provide conclusions for urban public space as a definition of the green infrastructure of the current city of Latin America; in the latter, the focus is to support this article.
This document outlines the goals and approach of the HYBRID DUNES project in Barcelona, Spain. The project aims to: 1) Create a standardized database and methodology to analyze existing urban dune projects for coastal protection and ecosystem services. 2) Improve urban dune management by incorporating beach morphodynamics and ecosystem processes. 3) Define the concept of an "urban dune" and explore new governance models from an ecosystem services perspective. The project will involve collaboration with stakeholders to assess economic and social factors of urban dunes.
This document discusses how obsolete landfill sites in Cardiff, Wales could be integrated into the city's network of parks. It notes that landfill sites are substantial areas that can provide insights into a city and its growth. The author explores transforming Cardiff's landfill sites similar to how New York City converted its Freshkills Landfill into parkland. The document recommends linking Cardiff's major parks with smaller green spaces to create a structured network of green linkages that improves accessibility for pedestrians and cyclists. This "finger plan" would help define a clear vision and structure for the city's future development.
Vitoria-Gasteiz in northern Spain is one of Europe's greenest cities, with over 10 million square meters of parks and green spaces. It has a long history of environmental planning and was awarded the title of European Green Capital in 2012 for its strategic urban planning, strong citizen involvement, and balanced management of the environment. The city promotes green spaces, public transportation, bicycle infrastructure, education, air quality management, water efficiency, and energy conservation to build a sustainable urban ecosystem while engaging residents.
Vitoria-Gasteiz in northern Spain is one of Europe's greenest cities, with over 10 million square meters of parks and green spaces. Some key aspects that make Vitoria-Gasteiz special include its strategic urban planning, strong citizen involvement, balanced management of the environment, and preservation of landscapes through its Green Belt parks and natural areas. As the 2012 European Green Capital, Vitoria-Gasteiz is recognized for its sustainable practices such as efficient public transportation, promotion of bicycling, environmental education programs, air quality management, water conservation efforts, and energy efficiency.
#IEApplication G. Do you think that the lifestyle of the inhabitants of your town or city reflects behavior that is in line with the concept of sustainable development? In your opinion, what should be improved?
Metropolitan Cities:Which Development Strategies? Which Governance Tools? New...Regional Science Academy
Presentation by Luigi Fusco Girard
Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour (ABC): ‘Urban Empires - Cities as Global Rulers in the New Urban World’
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland (August, 2016)
This document provides information about green cities and discusses examples of green cities like Vancouver and Gandhinagar. A green city is designed to minimize environmental impact and resource use through strategies like renewable energy, urban farming, green buildings, and public transport. Vancouver has led the world through its waste reduction programs and goal to be carbon neutral. Gandhinagar, India has over 53% green cover from its large number of trees. The document emphasizes that green cities are livable, sustainable, and help future generations meet their needs through ecological design.
The uncontrolled growth of cities has led to numerous environmental and social problems. Most cities grow in a disorderly and chaotic manner without proper planning, causing irreversible environmental impacts. To achieve sustainability, cities must be transformed into sustainable cities that incorporate sustainability principles into urban management. Sustainable cities are planned and managed according to sustainable development principles to meet current needs without compromising resources for future generations. They have policies to control land use and prevent environmental degradation through comprehensive sanitation, waste management, transportation, green spaces, and clean energy use.
Workshop on Scaling-up the implementation of nature-based solutions for clima...OECD Environment
This document summarizes Rosa Huertas' presentation on implementing nature-based solutions (NbS) in Valladolid, Spain. It discusses several NbS projects in Valladolid including green corridors, rain gardens, permeable pavement and more. It also covers challenges around governance, regulations, and lessons learned regarding financing, strategy, legal frameworks and more. The presentation highlights innovative NbS projects in Valladolid and opportunities to strengthen support and implementation of such solutions.
The Bordeaux Aquitaine RCE has launched a new strategy focused on three areas: learning cities, climate change adaptation, and education for sustainable development. This strategy will be implemented through partnerships across the region. The RCE is working with the city of Bordeaux on learning city initiatives and climate adaptation as part of a large national innovation program. It is also coordinating efforts on education for sustainable lifestyles and development. The overall goal is to better coordinate education approaches and develop a holistic vision of sustainable society through initiatives like reconceptualizing curricula.
Smart City - French- Dutch Young Talents 2014 - 2015 Ahmad AFANEH
FNI Conference
20-21 November 2014
CNIT, La Défense, Paris
Le Réseau franco-néerlandais
Coopération universitaire franco-néerlandaise au service de l’intégration européenne
This document discusses sustainable urban development and compact cities. It provides examples of integrated transport and land use planning approaches that promote sustainability, such as transit-oriented development, the Dutch ABC Strategy, Curitiba's linear public transport network, and the networked city concept of linking smaller cities through telematics. The document emphasizes compact, mixed-use development that enables public transport and reduces car dependency to minimize environmental impacts.
Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour (ABC): The Science of the City
Naples, March 2016
Presentation by Luigi Fusco Girard
Background: the challenges
This Meeting
Some expected conclusions
The document discusses the purpose and goals of the KAIRÓS Network project. The project aims to address urban environmental challenges in partner cities by using cultural heritage and tourism to promote social and economic revitalization of degraded historic areas. It will work to conserve cultural/natural spaces and engage local communities and stakeholders to develop sustainable cultural eco-tourism. This will improve cities' cultural assets, increase visitors, and benefit residents through new employment and social inclusion opportunities while achieving sustainability goals. The partner cities have significant cultural heritage in need of regeneration to attract residents and tourists alike.
Larsen, I., Backlund, A. 2003: Denmark - Ecological Sanitation - Sustainable ...Arne Backlund
The document summarizes the results of a project in Denmark that tested the use of diverting dry toilets without water flushing in 89 allotment gardens. Key findings include:
- Users found the toilets easy to install, clean, and empty, and had very few problems.
- Daily use of the toilets was generally problem-free, though some women had difficulty aiming into the urine bowl initially.
- Issues with flies, noise, and smells were minimal and easily addressed by users.
- Urine collected was highly concentrated and low in heavy metals and organic compounds, making it well-suited for use as fertilizer.
- No bacterial or parasitic infectious micro
The Congress for the New Urbanism views disinvestment in centr.docxrtodd643
The Congress for the New Urbanism views disinvestment in central cities, the
spread of placeless sprawl, increasing separation by race and income, environmental
deterioration, loss of agricultural lands and wilderness, and the erosion of society’s
built heritage as one interrelated community-building challenge.
We stand for the restoration of existing urban centers and towns within coherent
metropolitan regions, the reconfiguration of sprawling suburbs into communities of
real neighborhoods and diverse districts, the conservation of natural environments,
and the preservation of our built legacy.
We advocate the restructuring of public policy and development practices to
support the following principles: neighborhoods should be diverse in use and
population; communities should be designed for the pedestrian and transit as well
as the car; cities and towns should be shaped by physically defined and universally
accessible public spaces and community institutions; urban places should be framed
by architecture and landscape design that celebrate local history, climate, ecology,
and building practice.
We recognize that physical solutions by themselves will not solve social and economic
problems, but neither can economic vitality, community stability, and environmental
health be sustained without a coherent and supportive physical framework.
We represent a broad-based citizenry, composed of public and private sector
leaders, community activists, and multidisciplinary professionals. We are committed
to reestablishing the relationship between the art of building and the making
of community, through citizen-based participatory planning and design.
We dedicate ourselves to reclaiming our homes, blocks, streets, parks, neighborhoods,
districts, towns, cities, regions, and environment.
Continued on back...
1) Metropolitan regions are finite places with
geographic boundaries derived from topography,
watersheds, coastlines, farmlands, regional parks,
and river basins. The metropolis is made of
multiple centers that are cities, towns, and villages,
each with its own identifiable center and edges.
2) The metropolitan region is a fundamental
economic unit of the contemporary world.
Governmental cooperation, public policy, physical
planning, and economic strategies must reflect
this new reality.
3) The metropolis has a necessary and fragile
relationship to its agrarian hinterland and natural
landscapes. The relationship is environmental,
economic, and cultural. Farmland and nature are
as important to the metropolis as the garden is
to the house.
4) Development patterns should not blur or
eradicate the edges of the metropolis. Infill
development within existing urban areas
conserves environmental resources, economic
investment, and social fabric, while reclaiming
marginal and abandoned areas. Metropolitan
regions should develop strategies to encourage
such infill development over peripheral expans.
The document outlines 10 key messages for handling cultural heritage in small and medium historic towns. The messages stress: 1) Cultural heritage provides attractiveness and identity for cities. 2) Preservation, rehabilitation, and renovation of existing heritage is key. 3) The public sector plays a lead role in revitalizing historic areas through investments and planning. Citizen participation and public-private partnerships are also important for support. Sustainability and quality are primary goals for cultural heritage renewal.
Urban Public Space Axis Rector of Green Infrastructure in the Current City of...IEREK Press
The current city calls for the reconsideration of a close relationship between gray infrastructure and public spaces, understanding the infrastructure as a set of items, equipment, or services required for the functioning of a country, a City. Ambato, Ecuador, is a current intermediate city, has less than 1% of the urban surface with use of public green spaces, which represents a figure below the 9m2/ hab., recommended by OMS. The aim of this paper was to identify urban public spaces that switches of green infrastructure in the city today, applying a methodology of qualitative studies. With an exploratory descriptive level analysis, in three stages, stage of theoretical foundation product of a review of the existing literature, which is the theoretical support of the relationship gray infrastructure public spaces equal to green infrastructure. Subsequent to this case study, discussed with criteria aimed at green infrastructure and in the public spaces of the study area. Finally, after processing and analysis of the results, we provide conclusions for urban public space as a definition of the green infrastructure of the current city of Latin America; in the latter, the focus is to support this article.
Urban Public Space Axis Rector of Green Infrastructure in the Current City of...IEREK Press
The current city calls for the reconsideration of a close relationship between gray infrastructure and public spaces, understanding the infrastructure as a set of items, equipment, or services required for the functioning of a country, a City. Ambato, Ecuador, is a current intermediate city, has less than 1% of the urban surface with use of public green spaces, which represents a figure below the 9m2/ hab., recommended by OMS. The aim of this paper was to identify urban public spaces that switches of green infrastructure in the city today, applying a methodology of qualitative studies. With an exploratory descriptive level analysis, in three stages, stage of theoretical foundation product of a review of the existing literature, which is the theoretical support of the relationship gray infrastructure public spaces equal to green infrastructure. Subsequent to this case study, discussed with criteria aimed at green infrastructure and in the public spaces of the study area. Finally, after processing and analysis of the results, we provide conclusions for urban public space as a definition of the green infrastructure of the current city of Latin America; in the latter, the focus is to support this article.
This document outlines the goals and approach of the HYBRID DUNES project in Barcelona, Spain. The project aims to: 1) Create a standardized database and methodology to analyze existing urban dune projects for coastal protection and ecosystem services. 2) Improve urban dune management by incorporating beach morphodynamics and ecosystem processes. 3) Define the concept of an "urban dune" and explore new governance models from an ecosystem services perspective. The project will involve collaboration with stakeholders to assess economic and social factors of urban dunes.
This document discusses how obsolete landfill sites in Cardiff, Wales could be integrated into the city's network of parks. It notes that landfill sites are substantial areas that can provide insights into a city and its growth. The author explores transforming Cardiff's landfill sites similar to how New York City converted its Freshkills Landfill into parkland. The document recommends linking Cardiff's major parks with smaller green spaces to create a structured network of green linkages that improves accessibility for pedestrians and cyclists. This "finger plan" would help define a clear vision and structure for the city's future development.
Vitoria-Gasteiz in northern Spain is one of Europe's greenest cities, with over 10 million square meters of parks and green spaces. It has a long history of environmental planning and was awarded the title of European Green Capital in 2012 for its strategic urban planning, strong citizen involvement, and balanced management of the environment. The city promotes green spaces, public transportation, bicycle infrastructure, education, air quality management, water efficiency, and energy conservation to build a sustainable urban ecosystem while engaging residents.
Vitoria-Gasteiz in northern Spain is one of Europe's greenest cities, with over 10 million square meters of parks and green spaces. Some key aspects that make Vitoria-Gasteiz special include its strategic urban planning, strong citizen involvement, balanced management of the environment, and preservation of landscapes through its Green Belt parks and natural areas. As the 2012 European Green Capital, Vitoria-Gasteiz is recognized for its sustainable practices such as efficient public transportation, promotion of bicycling, environmental education programs, air quality management, water conservation efforts, and energy efficiency.
#IEApplication G. Do you think that the lifestyle of the inhabitants of your town or city reflects behavior that is in line with the concept of sustainable development? In your opinion, what should be improved?
Metropolitan Cities:Which Development Strategies? Which Governance Tools? New...Regional Science Academy
Presentation by Luigi Fusco Girard
Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour (ABC): ‘Urban Empires - Cities as Global Rulers in the New Urban World’
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland (August, 2016)
This document provides information about green cities and discusses examples of green cities like Vancouver and Gandhinagar. A green city is designed to minimize environmental impact and resource use through strategies like renewable energy, urban farming, green buildings, and public transport. Vancouver has led the world through its waste reduction programs and goal to be carbon neutral. Gandhinagar, India has over 53% green cover from its large number of trees. The document emphasizes that green cities are livable, sustainable, and help future generations meet their needs through ecological design.
The uncontrolled growth of cities has led to numerous environmental and social problems. Most cities grow in a disorderly and chaotic manner without proper planning, causing irreversible environmental impacts. To achieve sustainability, cities must be transformed into sustainable cities that incorporate sustainability principles into urban management. Sustainable cities are planned and managed according to sustainable development principles to meet current needs without compromising resources for future generations. They have policies to control land use and prevent environmental degradation through comprehensive sanitation, waste management, transportation, green spaces, and clean energy use.
Workshop on Scaling-up the implementation of nature-based solutions for clima...OECD Environment
This document summarizes Rosa Huertas' presentation on implementing nature-based solutions (NbS) in Valladolid, Spain. It discusses several NbS projects in Valladolid including green corridors, rain gardens, permeable pavement and more. It also covers challenges around governance, regulations, and lessons learned regarding financing, strategy, legal frameworks and more. The presentation highlights innovative NbS projects in Valladolid and opportunities to strengthen support and implementation of such solutions.
The Bordeaux Aquitaine RCE has launched a new strategy focused on three areas: learning cities, climate change adaptation, and education for sustainable development. This strategy will be implemented through partnerships across the region. The RCE is working with the city of Bordeaux on learning city initiatives and climate adaptation as part of a large national innovation program. It is also coordinating efforts on education for sustainable lifestyles and development. The overall goal is to better coordinate education approaches and develop a holistic vision of sustainable society through initiatives like reconceptualizing curricula.
Smart City - French- Dutch Young Talents 2014 - 2015 Ahmad AFANEH
FNI Conference
20-21 November 2014
CNIT, La Défense, Paris
Le Réseau franco-néerlandais
Coopération universitaire franco-néerlandaise au service de l’intégration européenne
Navegar por la complejidad de los sistemas modernos presenta desafíos únicos que requieren enfoques innovadores y no lineales. Por eso, exploramos cómo las carteras de proyectos de experimentación pueden ayudar a enfrentar problemas complejos que no tienen una solución única o tecnicista, como por ejemplo el cambio climático, la desigualdad social, la salud pública o la seguridad alimentaria.
Presentación del diálogo (im)probable con Giulio Quaggiotto.
Un diálogo (im)probable con Francisco Ferreira, profesor asociado de la Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Universidad de Nova de Lisboa e investigador del CENSE – Centro de Investigación en Medio Ambiente y Sostenibilidad.
Presentación de Yago Bermejo utilizada durante el diálogo (im)probable "La dimensión democrática de la transición justa: ¿se está escuchando a la ciudadanía?
¿Cómo puede la colaboración entre universidades, ayuntamientos y organizaciones de la sociedad civil de Europa y Ucrania impulsar una reconstrucción climáticamente neutra y equitativa de las ciudades ucranianas?
Presentación usada para el diálogo (im)probable del 31 de octobre de 2023 por Olga Kordas, de Viable Cities y Unicities
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1. ILLUSTRATED GUIDE
FOR A FOREST
Summarised Proceedings of the
Conference on the Metropolitan
Forest Competition
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The 13 and 14 July 2020 were the dates for the “Conference on the
METROPOLITAN FOREST Competition: climate, territory, and society”. Its
purpose was not simply to present and report on the competition, but to
collaboratively build the concept of a forest from which to visibilise the
environmental, social, and economic benefits it can offer the city, with all the
potential of intervening in a landscape in terms of identity, ecology, health, or the
economy.
The Metropolitan Forest is one of a number of varied strategies the City Council of
Madrid is implementing in order to address the climate crisis. It is a project that will
give shape to a new green infrastructure on a municipal level, a forest beltway
encircling the city of Madrid, bolstering the ecological and territorial restoration of
degradedareasandtheenvironmentalimprovementofthecityonthewhole.
Theconferencetookplacewiththeclearintentionofwideningthethoughtsaround
the Forest and reaching an agreement on the set of guiding criteria for the
competition. Seventeen speakers from a wide range of disciplines took part in the
conference,includingcouncilspecialists,architects,landscapedesigners,engineers,
Supported by
urban planners, nurses, doctors, or artists. The perspectives put forward by each
speakerhavebeendistilledandcapturedinthisguide,whichcanbeusedbeyondthe
competitionasamanualtorethinktherelationshipsbetweenthecityofMadridand
itsgreeninfrastructure.
The participants were also able to give width and depth to the debate in real time,
collaborating in virtual workshops, identifying new criteria and recommendations,
alsoincludedinthisguide.
The Metropolitan Forest will be a key legacy the city can leave future generations,
one of the last opportunities to reach a city in balance with natural processes and
abletofaceclimate,environmental,social,andeconomicchallenges.
The Metropolitan Forest, a project supported by the Deep Demonstration Healthy
and Clean Cities programme, part of the EIT Climate-KIC, aims at transforming
Madridandmakingitclimateneutralby2030.
ILLUSTRATED GUIDE FOR A FOREST
Summarised Proceedings
of the Conference on the Metropolitan Forest Competition
3. ·SilviaVillacañas-CityCouncilofMadrid·
Working in multidisciplinary teams that generate
holistic “big-picture” visions, broad enough to
think about green infrastructures
· 01 ·
In order to meet the aims of urban agendas, the city of
Madrid must implement a mature green infrastructure with
a system of sustainable spaces, developed with innovative
design and management criteria, offering a wide range of
ecosystematic services. The development of a multiscalar
and interconnected system able to maximise environmental
and social services must involve and engage multiple
perspectives and be conceived within multidisciplinary work
teams.
· Fernando Valladares - CSIC ·
Acknowledge that
there are no healthy people
without a healthy planet
· 06 ·
It is important to be aware that what is happening to urban
dwellers’ health at the moment is largely what is happening
to the health of the planet. Healthy ecosystems are able to
reduce the environmental risks of zoonosis and infection in
humans thanks to the protective role biodiversity offers. For
an ecosystem to be healthy it must be connected, which is
why the Metropolitan Forest must establish links between
the pre-existing green areas and improve the connection
with the parks inside the city of Madrid, where millions live.
· Pilar Serrano Gallardo - UAM · · Alberto Nanclares - Basurama ·
Designing for the prevention and mitigation
of the vulnerabilities and social inequalities
that affect wellbeing
· 07 ·
The quality of the space we live or work in has an impact on
our health and wellbeing. When thinking about the
Metropolitan Forest, it is critical to remember that health
inequalities are linked to social factors, and that they are
unfair and avoidable. The Metropolitan Forest has the
potential to be seen as a counterweight in the public space to
these inequalities in the private sphere, and the use of
inclusive approaches will avoid excluding the most
vulnerable members of the population.
·JuanAzcárate-AyuntamientodeMadrid·
The forest as a space of collaboration
between multiple actors in order to achieve
climate neutrality in ten years
· 08 ·
In the case of the Metropolitan Forest, one of its principles of
innovation is the design process itself. A development
process that encourages learning by doing – based on
knowledge of the city of Madrid and adapting according to
the progress – will make it possible to identify the leverage
points that can activate a systemic transformation. This is
the reason the Metropolitan Forest must be understood as a
space of collaboration in which to establish partnerships
between the multiple stakeholders that are needed in order
to undertake the challenge of decarbonising the city.
The forest as a place of infinite possibilities,
with the capacity to transform the city
and its inhabitants
· 09 ·
The Metropolitan Forest should be an invitation for us to
imagine the forest differently, as children do when playing
with rocks and sticks, as a place of endless possibilities, as a
space of freedom that cannot be controlled, as a
transformative space where we ourselves become
unpredictable elements. The Metropolitan Forest must also
become a place of melding and blending where the boundary
between the city and the forest is overcome, giving way to
both an naturalised city and an urbanised nature.
· Nomad Garden ·
Thinking about Madrid’s inhabitants
as cosmopolitan gardeners in order
to slowly build an urban forest
· 10 ·
When we devise emerging, community gardens, the first task
is to explore what is already there with the people who live in
these places, using shared cartographies. These vegetation
maps are a lot more than just maps, as they bring together
historical and scientific knowledge with sensations and
emotions, revealing invisible relations and giving name to
theoretical ecotopes. The Metropolitan Forest is a
reproductive space, perhaps it already exists and is right
there, latent and spread across the city. It is only a matter of
time before it germinates and sprouts.
·JuanManuelFernández-CityCouncilofMadrid·
Considering and being aware of the historical
dimension in the design; the learnings and
failures of the past
· 02 ·
The creation of a green belt for Madrid has been a constant
aim over the last century of the city’s urban planning. The
Metropolitan Forest is the last change for the city to
consolidate this green ring, integrated and articulated with
the existing city, able to improve its environmental
behaviour and contributing to the increase of biodiversity.
The city needs to consolidate a system of free outdoor
spaces that are able to connect the citizens with their
territory and nature.
·RafaelRuizLópezdelaCova-Castilla-LaManchaNaturalParks·
Developing urban biodiversity
by means of environmental
and socioeconomic solutions
· 04 ·
In order to achieve a diversity of habitats, it is important to
pair environmental aims with the search for social and
economic benefits, such as the promotion of green jobs. This
urban biodiversity is achieved through a multiplicity of
solutions, combining the establishing of a dense forest with
other open spaces, agroforestry, and agricultural areas, etc.
We need the Metropolitan Forest to contribute towards
making Madrid more inhabitable, kinder, and healthier.
· José Fariña Tojo - UPM ·
Understanding green (and blue) infrastructure as
an interconnected functional network within a
walkable city, a city of proximity
· 05 ·
The Metropolitan Forest is an opportunity to give shape to a
city of proximity with nature as an integral part. A forest that
favours spaces of cohabitation and promotes active citizens,
one that works as a network of connected spaces where
exchange can happen between a range of areas, that
generates different ecosystem services depending on its
features and location (for example, cultural services will be
crucial in the more anthropised areas, as regulation systems
will be in intermediate peri-urban systems).
· Luis Martínez - SEO Birdlife ·
Fostering biodiversity
in order to improve the resilience
of cities in the face of climate crisis
· 03 ·
The Metropolitan Forest must play a fundamental role in the
improvement of the city’s ability to resist climate change.
Towards this adaptation, it is necessary to increase urban
biodiversity by recreating diverse habitats that can help
establish multiple interactions among the flora and fauna
that inhabit them. These habitats must work as
self-sufficient and resistant ecosystems where ecological
succession processes are imitated to favour the already
present fauna.
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4. ·Amanda Masha Caminals - IMNA. Matadero Madrid ·
The forest as a laboratory
of futures to trial
a multispecies city
· 11 ·
In recent decades, the arts and humanities have proposed
new imaginaries around our species and how we related with
other species. The Metropolitan Forest is a chance to take
inspiration from contemporary artistic practices based on
changing the way we pose questions, challenging human and
nonhuman agency, prioritising logics of care, or designing
hybrid devices where technology, aesthetics, and humour
come together in a call for our empathy.
· Fernando García-Dory - Campo Adentro ·
Seeking a symbiotic relationship between the
rural and the city, bringing back sustainable,
local farming practices
· 16 ·
The Metropolitan Forest can reclaim rural knowledge and
practices that have been forgotten in the city, reinventing
their associated economies and situating them once again in
the periphery of Madrid. An example of this are the urban
herds of the Casa de Campo, able to produce artisan cheeses
that are later sold in the local economy. It is important to
bridge the gap between the rural and the city, ceasing to view
the periphery as a hostile environment and bringing it back to
life thanks to the recovery of multipurpose practices such as
agroforestry and silvopasture.
· Alicia Carvajal - Arup · Workshop 2 - Nature as the Protector of Health and Biodiversity
Using assessment methods
for the project beyond
those traditionally considered
· 17 ·
Who benefits? How do they benefit? How is value created?
How can it be financed? How can funding sources be
mobilised? These are the questions to answer when
assessing solutions to the challenges identified in the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), solutions among
which is the Metropolitan Forest. A challenge that needs the
collaboration of every part of society, sharing the risks and
benefits of its development as a whole.
Workshop 1 - The Integration of Nature in the City:
New narratives, models, and aesthetics
Understanding the forest
in terms of cultural networks,
biodiverse and ecosystematic
· 18 ·
The Metropolitan Forest must involve multiple networks:
cultural networks that can develop new pedagogies related
to outdoor classrooms, establishing market gardens or plant
nurseries in association with schools, or rethinking the forest
beyondthe“green”discourseandapproachingecosystematic
logics; biodiverse networks where new interspecies
relationships can be imagined and where micro-diversity is
fostered; and ecosystematic networks in order to understand
that the forest should not be invented from nowhere but
rather intensified from what is already there.
Promoting a forest that cares for us
and that we can care for,
in a broad sense
· 19 ·
The Metropolitan Forest has to be conceived to care for and
contribute to people’s physical and mental health, able to
offer space for physical exercise, walks, shaded areas, spaces
for outdoor workshops in nature, etc. Also inversely, the
Metropolitan Forest is an ecosystem to care for, which we
will see grow and mature, where it is possible to increase
urban biodiversity and that favours ecological processes
such as pollination. A place that invites us to question
notions such as biodiversity or nativeness.
Síntesis del Taller 3:
Nuevas economías y empleos verdes
The potential of a forest to become
a space of pedagogical, cultural, technological,
and digital innovation
· 20 ·
The Metropolitan Forest has as many possibilities as we are
able to propose. It can become a place to learn about nature
and investigate it in an urban environment, where a
combination between citizen science and data takes centre
stage. It can be a “wild” space for culture, art, and the
improbable. It can be a space in which to trial various models
of collaboration and partnership between different sectors
of society. Or perhaps it can become a space to rewild,
self-managed with no human management; letting it be.
· Javier Segura - CityCouncilofMadrid ·
Thinking about proximity and accessibility
in terms of equity with regards to an
interconnected network of green spaces
· 12 ·
The Metropolitan Forest provides a chance to react to the
differences in health and wellbeing that stem from social
inequalities. These differences are hidden and, although they
can be revealed in graphs and maps, they can represent up to
a nine-year difference in people’s life expectancy from one
area of the city to another. When designing the Metropolitan
Forest it is necessary to create equitable maps that
guarantee that all of Madrid’s inhabitants have the same
conditions of proximity and accessibility with respect to
public space and quality green areas.
· Gerard Passola - Doctor árbol ·
The capacity of an urban forest as a space that
generates comfort and happiness, with the
potential to contribute towards a better society
· 14 ·
The current model of urban development fosters an
excessive concentration of people in urban environments,
with serious consequences for people’s health and important
economic impacts. An urban forestry where the trees are
seen as the main transformative element has the capacity to
dampen these impacts thanks to the introduction of nature
and its laws into the city. Large scale trees are those which
generate the largest benefits for society.
· Franco Llobera - Economías Bioregionales ·
Understanding the city from an urban metabo-
lism perspective, where the forest is conceived for
food production and the destination of bio-waste
· 15 ·
The Metropolitan Forest must be understood from an urban
metabolism perspective, as part of a system of flows and
exchange. The forest can be a source of food and the
recipient of bio-waste from the city, being able to transform
this waste into compost and improve soil fertility. This way
the forest would help create the rich soils needed in a
productive forest, and thus enable food production for
consumption and distribution through local networks.
· Miriam García - Landlab ·
The forest as a patchwork of diverse landscapes
with the capacity to regenerate the degraded
ecosystems of the city
· 13 ·
The limits of the planet have been surpassed, causing serious
changes, damaged ecosystems, and a global, systemic crisis.
In order to reverse the situation, the biophysical cycles in the
Metropolitan Forest have to be redefined in terms of
resilience, diversity, and social justice. It is crucial to apply
principles that stem from ecological regeneration practices
and to encourage a variety of landscapes that are able to
holistically self-regenerate. This is the only way of generating
healthy, complex, and resilient ecosystems that are able to
offer ecosystemic benefits to the whole of society.
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“Innovation will come
from collective,
multidisciplinary work”
Silvia Villacañas
“We stand today before
the last chance”
Juan Manuel Fernández
“Not thinking about what
I can plant here that will look nice,
but rather what can grow here
that will look nice”
Luis Martínez
“It is incredible how different
animal species are able to
adapt and find their own niches
and ecosystems in the urban
setting of the city”
Rafael Ruiz López de la Cova
“Let’s see if we finally manage
to link up all those spaces”
José Fariña Tojo
“Even in an ecosystem
as artificial as a city, natural
processes are fundamental
for our health”
Fernando Valladares“It has been clearly
demonstrated that green
spaces have a positive
impact on people’s
wellbeing”.
Pilar Serrano Gallardo
“We believe that in the
metropolitan forest everybody
has something to say because
everyone is affected
in one way or another”
Juan Azcárate “The forest as a place
for madness”
Alberto Nanclares
“What if the forest
is already there?”
Nomad Garden
“The Metropolitan Forest has
the opportunity of becoming a
yardstick for the paradigm shift
that defines us as a species
and a society”
Amanda Masha Caminals
“With health,
sometimes the
postcode is more
important than the
genetic code”
Javier Segura
“We face an eroded,
impoverished, tired, and
mutilated landscape, and
therefore a landscape
extremely vulnerable to the
effects of climate change”
Miriam García
“The forest is far away,
people need a forest nearby”
Gerard Passola
“At some point human
manure must be used to
fertilise the soil”
Franco Llobera
“Not an auteur
intervention”
Fernando García-Dory
“There is an intimate and
delicate relationship
between people and the
planet”
Alicia Carvajal
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Supported by
PART 1
The Metropolitan Forest Competiton
Silvia Villacañas
Director. Strategic Planning Office
City Council of Madrid
Historical overview and current urban situation
Juan Manuel Fernández
Deputy Director. Urban Assessment Office
City Council of Madrid
Forest, diversity and context. First actions
Luis Martínez. SEO Birdlife
The city and the river as connectors for the Regional Parks
Rafael Ruiz López de la Cova
Director. Guadalajara Natural Parks
PART 2
Designing an urban life with an ecological perspective
Jose Fariña Tojo. UPM
The protective role of nature for our health
Fernando Valladares. CSIC
Social inequalities in health and pandemics
Pilar Serrano Gallardo. UAM
The Metropolitan Forest towards
the decarbonization of the city
Juan Azcárate
Deputy Director. Energy and Climate Change Office
City Council of Madrid
THE METROPOLITAN FOREST
IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CITY
13th July
CREDITS TALKS
PART 1
The Integration of Nature in the City:
New narratives, models, and aesthetics
One forest, multiple views
Alberto Nanclares. Basurama
The cosmopolitan garden
Nomad Garden Sevilla
Instituto Mutante de Narrativas Ambientales. INMA
Amanda Masha Caminals. Matadero Madrid
PART 2
Nature as the Protector of Health and Biodiversity
Nature as social determinant of health
Javier Segura. Ayuntamiento de Madrid
A forest of multiple landscapes
Miriam García. Landlab
Urban forestry
Gerard Passola. Doctor árbol
PART 3
New Green Economies and Jobs
Agroecological regeneration and social entrepreneurship
Franco Llobera. Economías Bioregionales
Campo Adentro
Fernando García-Dory
Potentialities and risks in green economies
Alicia Carvajal. Arup
EXPANDING THE COLLECTIVE
IMAGINERY OF THE FOREST
14th July
PROMOTED BY:
General Strategic Planning Office
Area of Urban Development. City Council of Madrid
SUPPORTED BY:
Centre for Technological Development for Human
Development of the Polytechnic University of Madrid
(itdUPM) and EIT Climate-KIC
Advisory board
Marisol Mena. City Council of Madrid
Juan López-Aranguren. Democratic Society
Technical coordination and co-organizers
Manuel Almestar. itdUPM
Irene Ezquerra. itdUPM
Luisa Fernanda Guerra. itdUPM
Manuel Pascual García. zuloark
Conference presenter
Antonella Broglia.
Workshops facilitators
Rosa Jiménez
Esaú Acosta
Julia López Varela
Workshops rapporteurs
Nieves Mestre. UPM
Sonia Roig Gómez. UPM
Valentina Oquendo. UPM
Francesca Olivieri. UPM
Illustrated guide rapporteurs
Lys Villaba Rubio
Malú Cayetano
Translator spanish-english
Daniel Lacasta Fitzsimmons
CONFERENCE ON THE METROPOLITAN
FOREST COMPETITION: CLIMATE,
TERRITORY, AND SOCIETY
7. ILLUSTRATED GUIDE
FOR A FOREST
Summarised Proceedings of the
Conference on the Metropolitan
Forest Competition