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Sustainability
This document summarizes a guest lecture on urbanization and social change. It discusses several topics related to sustainability and urban planning, including the impact of urban sprawl seen via satellite images, scenarios for global cities in the 21st century, issues of peak oil and localized energy production, and case studies of Finland and simulations of sustainable cities. The document advocates for localized and organic food systems as well as renewable energy to create more sustainable urban development.
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Sustainability
- 1. E144U – Urbanizationand Social Change Sustainability Guest Lecturer Montgomery Norton University of California, Irvine Spring 2006
- 2. What kind ofworld do we want to live in?
- 3. Remarks by BillMoyers UCI – November 14, 2005 Sponsored by the School of Social Ecology
- 4. “The city isfirst a holy place.” – Lynch & Mumford
- 5. “Urban Constellation” – LewisMumford (pp. 566, ¶ 2) Using satellite images of city lights at night, NASA scientists are mapping the spread of urban areas around the globe and monitoring their impact on our planet's ecosystem.
- 6. Fu-chen Lo andYue-man Yeung • Globalization (pp. 9) • Food supply. (pp.11) • Sustainable Development can be achieved. (pp. 12)
- 7. Peak Oil, PostCarbon Cities, Powerdown • “Peak oil production and the arc of depletion that follows” • The loss of Fossil Fuels and what that means… (Colin Campbell – the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas)
- 8. Possible Futures National IntelligenceCouncil (Special Advisory Board to the CIA) • Davos World • Pax Americana • A New Caliphate • Cycle of Fear
- 9. Millenium Ecosystem Assessment •“Considers the intrinsic value of species and ecosystems.” • Plausible Scenarios: – Global Orchestration – Order from Strength – Adapting Mosaic – TechnoGarden
- 10. Scenarios for the21 Century Hammond, A. (1998). • Market World • Fortress World • Transformed World
- 12. Growing awareness and demandfor organics and a greener evolution…
- 13. The Organic Revolution “Organic revolution – it’snot just for hippies anymore”
- 14. The Food System •Relocalization (Community Organic Gardens) • Free-Range • Organic • Biodiversity • Natural (Less processed foods)
- 15. Localized Energy Production •Wind Energy • Solar Power • Micro-Turbine Generators (Methane/Natural Gas) • Fuel Cells (Methane/Natural Gas)
- 17. SimCity • Localization ofresources, production, and services.
- 18. Case Study: Finland “FinlandTops Environmental Scorecard at World Economic Forum”
- 19. Opportunities • The endof the Cold War. • The Iraq Wars/the “War on Terror” • America’s infrastructure.
- 20. Cycles of Civilizations TheCollapse of Complex Civilizations, Joseph Tainter (Eco-Economy, pp. 14) Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed, Jared Diamond
- 21.
Editor's Notes
- #5 Has not Capitalism and competition for material wealth become our religion Sustainability reclaims the quality of life indicators, including: value, peace, nature, beauty, art, culture, purpose, and inspiration To what are we devoted?
- #6 “In a well ordered world, there would be no limits, physical, cultural, or political, to such a system of co-operation… Once technics releases itself from the costly wholesale preparations for genocide…
- #7 There is no doubt that globalization has sharpened the basic conflicts between the old and the new, secularism and religion, the West and the East, the haves and the have-nots. (pp. 9) One potentially critical problem already being faced by some mega-cities is food supply. (pp.11) Overall, the world population must be able to stabilize at a certain level such that sustainable development can be achieved. (pp. 12)
- #9 Davos World: China & India reshaping globalization through robust economic growth. Pax Americana: U.S. predominance survives the radical changes to the global political landscape. A New Caliphate: radical religious identity politics constituting a challenge to Western norms & values Cycle of Fear: large-scale intrusive security measures are taken to prevent outbreaks of deadly attacks.
- #11 Market World: A new golden age of prosperity. “The spread of capitalism furthers the spread of freedom and democracy.” Fortress World: Instability and violence? Transformed World: Changing the human endeavor?