how to “green” large-scale urban design projects training session
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How to “green” large-scale urban design projects Training session. World Urban Forum V Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday March 23 rd 2010. Introduction to UrbEn group. Who we are? Team of 8 urban planning professionals From various countries Representing several specialization areas - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
UrbEn Group – training session at World Urban Forum V, Rio, March 23 2010
How to “green” large-scale urban design projects
Training session
World Urban Forum VRio de Janeiro, Tuesday March 23rd 2010
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Introduction to UrbEn group
• Who we are?– Team of 8 urban planning professionals– From various countries– Representing several specialization areas
• Integrated water resources management• Energy efficiency in built environment• Waste management• Urban regeneration• Urban agriculture• Nutrients• Others
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This course will cover:
• Linkages between crucial environmental and social issues in different contexts and “green” building strategies and technologies in the building sector, and enhance participants’ awareness.
• Tools that will facilitate the development of more natural resources and energy efficient as well as socially inclusive urban design models.
• Challenges of a trans-disciplinary discussion between actors engaged in the design, decision-making, implementation and construction (e.g. developers, planners and law makers) of large-scale urban design projects
• Experiences of the various types of actors and backgrounds at the training session
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Training session outline
9:15-9:40 (25 mins.)
Part 1: Introductory lecture– Discussion: Sharing experiences / case studies
9:40-10:20 (40 mins.)
Part 2: Exercise 1 Urban context questionnaire– WHOLE GROUP: Identifying ‘key areas of contention’ in Rio
10:20-11:40 (80 mins.)
Part 3: Exercise 2 Urban design toolkit– SMALL GROUPS of 6-7 participants– Group presentations & Discussion
UrbEn Group – training session at World Urban Forum V, Rio, March 23 2010
Introductory lecture
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Problem context
• Very rapid ongoing urban expansion in built-up areas in developing economies
• Cities using more resources than available in the hinterlands
• New urban developments often absorb most fertile land– Due to agricultural society legacy
• Thus, ways of using natural resources such as land and water, and energy more efficiently, need to be integrated into new developments
• New models of urban design are needed
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Large-scale urban developments
• In rapidly transforming urban contexts, time and capacity resources may be limited
• Therefore, developers keep implementing the same models which are not necessarily sustainable– Anonymous example from Beijing, China
• Based on fixed idea of ‘modernity’
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Large-scale real-estate development
• Example in Beijing, China– Predominantly high-rise and on urban periphery– Often use greenspaces and water although lack of resources– House up to 30,000 people but lack of services– Often lack of access by public transport– Not necessarily sustainable
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Many sustainable models already exist
• New models for new cities– Modern architects like MVRDV or Foster & Partners– Examples: Masdar in Abu Dhabi, Tianjin Eco-City in China– Seldom address challenges of existing cities
• As well as existing examples of more sustainable design and practice– For example Curitiba in Brazil, a well-known example– Eco-settlements in Europe– Level and tools for knowledge exchange on these solutions?
• And many traditional urban design solutions– ‘Smart’ in dealing with climatic challenges– Use practical and low-tech solutions
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Facilitation of knowledge flow needed
• But the flow of these solutions into the building sector is still limited
• Existing standards and frameworks often address micro-scale green building standards
• But not much yet at neighbourhood scale– LEED-ND (USA), certification starting from 2010– DGNB (Germany) developing neighbourhood level indicators– Applicability of such frameworks to developing country contexts?
• Tools for facilitating the creation of new widely applicable solutions are needed
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Our aim is:
• To address challenges systematically
• To tackle challenges at spatial scale at which cities are being constructed: – Large-scale real-estate developments: represent increasingly
large segments of the city– City governments’ growing interest in better urban environment– Size of projects = High visibility of projects function as signs– A range of actors are involved in the urban design & decision-
making process = a discussion platform
• To develop tools to assist the urban design process and knowledge exchange
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Aim of this session
• Introduction of set of tools as part of urban design process
• Exercise using a 3 level approach:1. Urban context questionnaire: assessment of the urban context
2. Urban design toolkit: a range of existing urban design solutions to support new model development
3. Discussion on implementation context of new urban design model
• Collect feedback from you
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Part 2: Urban context questionnaire
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Based on existing frameworks
• Questionnaire builds on:– UNDP/UNCHS/Wold Bank 1994: Urban Management Program:
‘Rapid Urban Environmental Assessment’– UNEP: Integrated Environmental Assessment– UN-HABITAT 2003: Housing situation and housing needs
assessment– United Nations Statistics Division 2003: Social Indicators in the
Urban Context: Urban Poverty and Health Study – UNDP 2008: Capacity Assessment (+ Support Tool)– UNECE 2009: Sustainable energy division: Action plan for
energy efficient housing in the UNECE region
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Aim of the questionnaire
• Tool to systematically provide a ‘macro’ overview of an existing urban context
• Highlight key ‘areas of contention’• Assess an urban context ‘neutrally’:
– Without bias to finding certain problems– Questionnaire aims to capture all ‘flows’ into and out of a city– Can be used to assess any urban context in developing as well
as developed economies
• Not related to the decision-making process• Place different urban contexts into a comparative format
• During urban design, quantitative/qualitative questionnaire data can be retrieved to guide design process and refine design
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Urban Context Questionnaire
• How it works:– Quantitative and qualitative data collection– Expert weighting of each indicator
• Scale 1-9: 1= least & 9= most important– Indication of key areas of contention by colour-coding
• Who fills it in?– Independent consultant– Time estimate: 6-8 weeks
• Depends on data availability
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4-level Questionnaire Matrix
7 key topic areasPeople, Land, Water, Air, Energy, Waste, Nutrients
Each sub-topic is defined by a set of indicators
6 categories
Topic-specific sub-topics
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Summary matrix of the questionnaire
People Land Water Air Energy Waste Nutrients
General information / Existing context
Consumption / Use of resources
Contention / Human health
Institutional capacity assessment
Financing
Policy instruments
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Exercise 1
• Today, we don’t have time to fill in the whole questionnaire
• Therefore, we will identify ‘key areas of contention’ in Rio using the matrix
• Exercise with the whole group
People Land Water Air Energy Waste Nutrients
General information / Existing context
Consumption / Use of resources
Contention / Human health
Institutional capacity assessment
Financing
Policy instruments
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Part 3: Urban Design Toolkit
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Aim of the toolkit
• To show neighbourhood scale solutions / case studies:– How communities working together and the proximity of
buildings can aid sustainability
• To provide a design support tool– For stakeholder group discussions – To formulate new urban design models– To visualize alternative future development scenarios
• Target audience– Actors engaged in urban design, decision-making,
implementation and construction
• Compilation of sustainable urban design ‘good practices’– Traditional and modern/visionary examples
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Urban Design Toolkit
• Compilation of case studies are:– Documented individually– Using a comparative format– One A4 page per case study
• Shows information on:
Project name: Project type (traditional/modern-architect):
Image description (top left to bottom right):
Basic information 1 City name, location 2 Population figure 3 Climate 4 Latitude, longitude 5 Mean elevation 6 Type of ecosystem Description of special features of project dealing with following topics: 1 People Social inclusiveness 2 Land Urban density, compactness, mixed use 3 Water Water conservation, rainwater harvesting 4 Air Natural ventilation, air quality protection 5 Energy Solar orientation, shading 6 Waste Waste recycling 7 Nutrients Self-sufficiency, urban agriculture 8 Other Data sources: fhfgjh
Case study image
Basic information
Information by 7 topic areas
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Urban Design Toolkit
• Case study selection is based on various existing ‘best practice’ compilation:– UN Habitat ‘Best practices’– Aga Khan historic cities’ programme awards– European sustainable settlements:
www.sustainable-settlements.eu – Global Ecovillage Network (GEN): http://www.ecovillage.org/– LEED-ND pilot projects– Others
• Today, we will apply the Urban Design Toolkit to a case study we have selected in Rio
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Rio case study:Barra de Tijuca suburb of Rio City
Barra in the 1970s: Empty land
The case we will address today
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A guarded, gated community
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Barra de Tijuca: typical neighbourhood
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Urban Design Toolkit:Introduction to case studies
These will be used to address the challenges identified through the Urban Context
Questionnaire, using the case study in Rio to visualize possible solutions
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SSS – National Institute of Renewable Energy, India
Data sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab_%28India%29, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapurthala, http://www.aecworldxp.com/edesign/361/india-focus/prof-arvind-krishan-india-focus-sustainability, http://www.gisdevelopment.net/aars/acrs/1997/ps1/ps2004.asp,
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Tianjin Eco-City, China
Data sources: http://www.tianjinecocity.gov.sg/
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Ecosettlement Frasenweg, Kassel, Germany
Data sources: http://www.oekosiedlungen.de/frasenweg/
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Auroville, Pondicherry, India
Data sources: http://www.auroville.org
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Christiana, Kopenhagen, Denmark
Data sources: http://www.energybulletin.net/node/51038/
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Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm, Sweden
Data sources: http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3096706, http://www.hammarbysjostad.se/
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Isfahan, Iran
Data sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isfahan
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Jaisalmer, India
Data sources: www.space-design.com/upload/RS0007.pdf
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Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UEA
Data sources: http://www.masdarcity.ae/en/index.aspx
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Quingpu New City, Shanghai, China
Data sources: http://archrecord.construction.com/ar_china/featureQingpu-1.asp, http://www.holcimfoundation.org/T488/Excursion2Qingpudistrict.htm
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The Gulch, Nashville, US
Data sources: www.wikipedia.org, http://www.nashvillegulch.com/
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Conclusion
• We hope you have:– gained a better understanding of the linkages between
crucial environmental and social issues in different contexts and “green” building strategies and technologies in the building sector, and an enhanced awareness of urban issues.
– gained a basic understanding of the tools and process of making the design of large-scale urban design projects more sustainable in terms of natural resources and socially inclusive.
– become more familiar with the challenges of a trans-disciplinary discussion between actors engaged in the design, decision-making, implementation and construction of large-scale urban design projects.
UrbEn Group – training session at World Urban Forum V, Rio, March 23 2010
Thank you for joining our training session!
We would like to follow up with you.
We hope we can continue the discussion today in the future to improve the tools and collect a greater range of
case studies.
Please contact us onwww.urban-group.org