Urban Development 2050
Planning resource-efficient cities
May 3rd, 2011, 09:00-18:00, Vienna, Urania
About 200 persons participated in the Conference organised by ÖIR.
Conference language was English. The conference was free of charge.
The presentations held can be downloaded here.
The conference
Can urban planning and a far-sighted management of urban development/ growth /change contribute to greater resource efficiency in urban life?
A number of selected European cities presented their view of the challenges and their approaches to the task:
Athens, Munich, Newcastle upon Tyne, Porto and Stockholm will present their perspectives along with Vienna.
The conference is part of the research project SUME (Sustainable Urban Metabolism for Europe, founded by EU-FP7). We present alternative spatial development scenarios. The scenarios are based on the population projections until 2050 and focused on land and energy consumption. In three parallel sessions we present and discuss a methodology to estimate the impact on energy use and other resources (the “urban metabolism”), the resource impact assessment of large urban development projects and related urban development policies in various European settings.
Background
Having the climate change agenda in mind we are working on ways to implement the Europe 2020 strategy.
Re-building cities is an ongoing, long-term process. The focus on resource-efficiency opens a new perspective to the potential use of these ongoing changes in urban environments:
Replacing old buildings through new, energy-efficient redevelopment is one aspect, but is it possible to adapt the urban layout and spatial structures to provide more compact cities, better adapted to future transport systems? This is a new challenge, which has to be faced in some very different contexts: in growing, stable or declining cities, in cities with varying densities, forms, cultures and climatic conditions. The conference will discuss some possible ways to integrate these new tasks with urban planning practice.
This conference was attended by 200
Urban development policy makers, urban planners and administrators, climate change researchers, urban networks, NGOs - download the participant list.
Key words
Urban development, urban metabolism, climate change, Europe 2020, smart cities, urban policies, built environment, energy consumption
download the conference programme
download SUME press release in English language (status: May 2011)
download list of participants
download the conference announcement
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Conference programme:
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08:30-09:00 Registration |
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09:00-10:45 Session 1 – Plenary session |
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Opening |
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Welcome: Policy approach on resource efficient urban development |
Maria Vassilakou |
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Key note 1: |
Birgit Georgi |
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Key note 2: |
Brendan Gleeson |
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Discussion |
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Urban development scenarios 2050: Spatial development strategies for higher resource efficiency |
Christof Schremmer |
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Discussion |
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10:45-11:15 Coffee break |
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11:15-13:15 Session 2 – Plenary session |
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City presentations on urban development perspectives – innovative strategies for sustainable planning |
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Stockholm |
Michael Erman |
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Newcastle upon Tyne |
Nicola Woodward |
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Porto |
Eduardo Oliveira Fernandes |
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Athens |
Eleni Hliopoulou |
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Vienna |
Thomas Madreiter |
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Discussion |
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13:15-14:30 Lunch break |
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14:30-16:30 Session 3 – Parallel sessions |
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Resource flows in urban systems: |
Building the New City – project by project |
Resource efficient cities: Policy and Institutional Framework |
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Session chair Helga Weisz Potsdam Inst. of Climate Change Research - PIK Perspectives on spatially explicit urban metabolism modelling |
Session chair Paulo Pinho Professor at CITTA, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto Resource use impact of urban development projects in given urban contexts (MIA - methodology and case studies) |
Session chair Simin Davoudi Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning, Newcastle University Actors, drivers and policies - How to introduce long-term resource efficiency in planning/development practice |
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Contributions: Felix Creutzig Departments for the Economics of Climate Change and Sustainable Engineering at the Technical University Berlin Rob Folkert Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency Title: Energy Model for the Built Environment - The Netherlands |
Contributions: Maria Rosario Partidario International specialist on EIA and SEA, Technical University Lisbon Patrick Galera-Lindblom Nordregio - Nordic Centre for Spatial Development |
Contributions:
Zef Hemel Deputy Director of City Planning Amsterdam Title: A Planning of Stories, Dialogue and Angels: how reality meets imagination. Christina Leifman Head of Section/Strategic Planning City Planning Administration of Stockholm |
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Discussion - Conclusion |
Discussion - Conclusion |
Discussion - Conclusion |
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16:30-17:00 Coffee break |
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17:00-18:00 Session 4 – Plenary session |
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Implementing resource efficient strategies |
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Key note 3 - Practitioners view: Integrative planning concept Munich |
Klaus Illigmann Head of Department of Strategic Urban Development of the City of Munich |
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Key note 4 - Environmental policy view: Urban Systems, Energy and Climate: Findings from the Global Energy Assessment |
Arnulf Grübler IIASA and Yale, Convening Lead Author of the Urbanization chapter of the Global Energy Assessment |
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Introduction to Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe
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Wolfgang Polt Director Joanneum Research |
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Closing statements |
SUME team, City of Vienna |
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18:00 End of conference – Invitation to Drinks, snacks and networking |
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