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Sustainable Urban Transformation
Learning from the future?Thriving Neighbourhoods Conference
Melbourne, Australia12-14 November 2012
Kes McCormickAssistant Professor
Urban experience
Urban region
• Copenhagen, Malmo, Lund, Helsingborg
• Diversity of urban centres
• Regional powerhouse in sustainability, innovation and research
Sustainable Urban Transformation
• Structural transformation processes – multi-dimensional and radical change – that can effectively direct urban development towards ambitious sustainability goals. – Viewing cities as a source of possibilities for
sustainability– Promoting active collaboration across diverse
stakeholders– Integrating different perspectives and bodies of
knowledge and expertise – Stimulating experimentation with different solutions and
approaches
Learning from future?
Visionary plansFront runners
Targets and Actions
• Europe by 2020– A reduction in GHG emissions of at least 20% below 1990 levels – 20% of energy consumption to come from renewable resources– 20% reduction in primary energy use compared with projected levels,
through energy efficiency.– Covenant of Mayors (4400 signatures, 170 million inhabitants)
• Sweden by 2020– 40% reduction in GHG emissions compared to 1990– At least 50% share of renewable energy in the energy mix– At least 10% share of renewable energy in the transport sector– 20% more efficient use of energy compared to 2008– Climate Communities and Fossil Fuel Free Communities
Direction&
Momentum
ObservationsAUSTRALIA , SWEDEN AND EUROPE
• Buildings and precincts
• Multi-level governance
• Burden or business/resilience
• Community or jungle
• Urban living labs
Buildings and precincts
Multi-level Governance
• Bottom up? Top down?
• Policy ≠ Governance
• Creating technically sustainable urban areas → Thriving neighbourhoods
Burden or business/resilience
• Different contexts! Energy security and climate change!
• New technologies, new industries, new opportunities, new jobs → export markets
• Climate mitigation and adaptation and resilience (local and global change)
Jungle or community
• A sense of community ...
• Life is a jungle.
• Society is valuable.
• Trust in governance?
Urban living labs
• An approach to integrate research and innovation processes within a public-private-people partnership in urban contexts.– Experiments in real time, real context
(research constantly feeds into policy and action)
– Users deeply and actively involved from the early stages of projects
– Research is open for surprises and learning from users Funding!
Lund: Collaborative Actions
• Lund University Urban Arena– Interaction and collaboration across
departments/faculties on research, education and action on sustainable urban transformation
• Lund Climate Collaboration– University and city, sustainability and climate
• Urban Transition Oresund– Municipalites and universities (and businesses)– Planning processes, financing and construction
Lund: Special Volume
• Guest editors from LundUniversity (3 centres)
• 20 articles on sustainableurban transformation
• Experiences and insights from 40 cases and over 130 survey examples
Key themes ...
• Governance and planning
PROCESSES
• Collaboration and learning
• Infrastructure and resilience
STRUCTURES
• Buildings and precincts
Final thoughts ...
• Conventional policy approaches inadequate, testing and developing urban governance innovations (urban living labs)
• Learning from (local and global) experimentation with different solutions and approaches
• Universities working in local contexts with municipalities (disseminate and shape research, different perspectives)
Urban Transition Oresundwww.urban-transition.se
Lund University Urban Arenawww.urban.lu.se
Special Volume on Sustainable Urban Transformationwww.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-cleaner-production
European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL)www.enoll.org