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Cool planningInsights from the ISOCARP-congress, Bodo, 2018

25 april 2019

Dr. Annette Kuhk, director humanarcHendrik Consciencelaan 16, B-2820 Bonheiden, BelgiumT: +32 485 25 88 68 [email protected] | www.humanarc.beSocio-spatial research |Coördination | Analysis, reporting, editing| Coaching for collective learning trajectories

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Welcome, introduction and motivation Fredéric Raynaud (Referee perspectiveLab), Paul Vermeylen (Chairman FUP For Urban Passion) Griet Geerinck (ISOCARP Belgium)

Insights from the ISOCARP keynote speechesAnnette Kuhk (humanarc research)

Results of different conference topics at ISOCARPDirk Van de Putte (Urban and Territorial Development Advisor)

Debate starting from practices in the three regions in Belgium Guy Vloebergh (senior spatial planner, Omgeving)Géraud Bonhomme (project manager - territorial strategy, perspective.brussels)Jacques Teller (Professor at LEMA, Université de Liège)Jo Huygh (Architect and consultant in urban and real estate development - Abattoir)moderated by Annette Kuhk (director humanarc)

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• International society of city and regional planners

• founded in 1965 based in The Hague, The Netherlands

• 700 members from 87 countries

• Multi-angle perspective: academia, government, organisations and agencies, consultancies and private sector

Different ‘formats’: congresses, publications, meetings for Young Planning Professionals, UPATs (Urban Planning Advisory Teams), awards, academic development,…

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Script for presentation


Insights based in global analysis

Urban challenges

Role of the urban

planner

Experiences nearby

A larger frame for planning: challenges of climate change and the third industrial revolution Insights from the ISOCARP keynote speechesAnnette Kuhk

Constituting elements in a systemic approach to cool planningResults of the several conference topics at ISOCARPDirk Van de Putte

Contemporary approaches to cool planning policies and practices in the three regions in Belgium Guy Vloebergh Géraud BonhommeJacques Teller Jo Huyghmoderated by Annette Kuhk

A larger frame for planning: challenges of climate change and the third industrial revolution

Dr. Annette Kuhk | Humanarc Research

Hendrik Consciencelaan 16, B-2820 Bonheiden, BelgiumT: +32 485 25 88 68 [email protected] | www.humanarc.beSocio-spatial research |Coördination | Analysis, reporting, editing| Coaching for collective learning trajectories



Insight from 3 keynotes


Jeremy Rifkin Herbert Girardet Peter Newman

Jeremy Rifkin

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Today:

The existing economic organization | carbon age | climate change

Challenge:

The launch of the third industrial revolution as a paradigmatic shift

Full livestream of keynote available on ISOCARP websitehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjB5ZCbqpxs&feature=youtu.be&t=4235

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjB5ZCbqpxs&feature=youtu.be&t=4235

Business as usual….Worldwide economic organization in the carbon age


Almost everything made from or move by fossil fuels,

Profoundly dysfunctional organization.

leads to two crisisses:

inequality and climate change

Ecosystems can not catch up to the changed water cycles

+ 1°C > 7% more precipitation contained in clouds

Leads to sixth extinction in the life on earth


The challenge

We need a new economic vision

for the world

for both the developing countries

and the industrial nations.

How do great paradigm shifts occur? How to manage, power and move?

Convergence of innovation in 3 defining technologies

Communication | Energy | Mobility > change worldview, businessmodels, governance,…

Great paradigm shifts

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Energy | Communication | Mobility

Coal industry

Steam power

Telegraphs

Railroads

Cheap texas oil

Telephone (centralized)

Ford engines

Renewable energy inter-net

Com. Internet > connect 3,5 billion people

Digitalised mobility and logistics inter-net

The third industrial revolutiona digital, networked world


Planetary infrastructure

Internet of things

Energy

Communication

Mobility and logistics

Wires, tracking, sensors,

satelites, automation,…

Picking up real-time data

Better manage, power and move

Total interconnectivity

Distributed (data/energy) nodes

“by 2030, we will have a

ubiquitous, smart world”

System of ‘pro-sumers’

not merely consumers

> people also produce

for each other at low or zero

marginal costs: blogs, music,

apps, sharing information and

online courses, ….

Also car-sharing, energy-

production, shared services, …

Renewable energy:

‘zero marginal costs’

e.g. basic investment + free sun

Challenges for urban planners

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Understand paradigmatic shiftsCircular | glocalised | networked | cooperative sharing economy | users and providers

Roadmaps for systemic change: pilots are not enough

More aggregate efficiency in planning

Design distributed (data | energy |mobility) hubs

Every building a micro-power plant

“We are tired of pilots.Pilots are not taking us where we need to go”.

The elephant in the room?

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How to deal with stranded assets?

Herbert Girardet

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Regenerative relationship between cities and ecosystems

Focus on ecological footprint of cities

3 models of the city

Agropolis: the town set in its local landscape

Petropolis: the city of the ‘Anthropocene’

New challenges

Ecopolis: the regenerative city


Embedded in local countryside, local dependence of resources

Ancient up to recent

structurese.g.

Aachen and

Shanghai


“we take for granted that supplies come from all over the world”Use of transport resources IN the city + dependencies from wider region

Challenges


Massive population growthLarge groups urbanisedSupply of resourcesDependencies

300 years to use fossil fuelsEcological impact (e.g. dead zones in riverdelta’s)

Urban planners are primarly concerned with structures,

Whereas they should be concerned with metabolims.

‘energy slaves’ > 6000 watt/day

Challenges


Who is feeding urban regions?Urbanised, contaminated landfarmers that quit (e.g. 250 million in China since 1978) higher standards and more meat(e.g. China 2005-2015: 6 million $ > 300 million $)Focus on peri-urban farming and vertical farming

Ever greater demand for resourcesEver more emissionsDeforestation, e.g. for soya-bean and palmoil plantationsUse of water for cotton cultivation

e.g. China: global impacts, but also significant interventions such as reforestation


Reconnecting to hinterlandProtect soil fertility

Symbiotic cities


Circular Metabolisms: consider the 4 laws of ecology

• Everything is connected to everything else. There is one ecosphere for all living organisms and what affects one affects all

• Everything must go somewhere. There is no ‘waste’ in nature and there is no ‘away’ to which it can be thrown

• Nature knows best. The absence of a particular substance from nature is often a sign that it is incompatible with the chemistry of life.

• Nothing comes from nothing. Exploitation of nature always carries ecological costs and these costs are significant.

(Adapted from Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle, 1971)

Practices and questions


Urban farms in Cuba Urban farming in Kenya Solar Home systems in Bangladesh

How to return wastewater to agriculture? How to recycle phosphates? How to provide energy? (also: land claims, community based, efficient management? )What to do with waste plastics?

Adelaide case study


Solar power Energy storage with Batteries

Composting organic waste Wastewater for farmland Urban agriculature Forestation

Peter Newman


How can urban planners help? (e.g. biophillic design)

What is already happening?

How can practices be mainstreamed?

Decoupling

Disruptive innovations

Theory of urban fabrics: consider urban metabolisms

Which big changes are still needed?

Full livestream + ppt of keynote available on ISOCARP website

Reactions on different effects of climate change


Reduced rainfall in Perth / questions for water management- Create wind-powered desalination plant- Water sensitive urban design (WSUD)- Water supply from CBD reservoir

Coastal adaptation- Rebuilding coasts as natural systems- Barrages as storm surge and for water retention

Urban heat effectRegenerating old buildings with nature = biophillic design

Also: disasters create/ show opportunities?

What can planners do? How can planners help?


Starting point: we need to adapt to slow loss of natural capacity by building more resilient and sustainable options

Key question: what is the right scale? Individual? e.g. small scale initiatives such as permaculture> < anti-urban? Neighbourhoods? e.g. sharing amongst communitiesCity Regions? e.g. traditional level for water management,

landfills, energy, etc.= efficiency of scale,but: often too linear, not considering the urban metabolism?

Which big changes are underway?

Decoupling growth from fossil fuel reliance

Disruptive innovation/ renewable city


Decoupling : growth in wealth no longer (necessarily) linked to raise of greenhouse gas emissions

Waves of innovation


Disruptive innovations:Different business models, energy and transport systemse.g. demand based

Mainstream possible when prices go down(solar, batteries, EV,..)

Solar-batteries-blockchain LOCAL SHARED RENEWABLES SYSTEMS

(Shared) Electric cars, bikes, transit LOCAL SHARED MOBILITY SYSTEMSEnergy internet

Disruptive innovations?

e.g. EV cars and autonomous individual vehicles

Happening at the same time: autonomous, electric transit technology

e.g. Trackless trams and local shared mobility


What can planners do? How can planners help?


Develop a different attitude

Risks | Innovation | PIMBY + preventive actions > build resilience

Focus on climate aspects

in different processes

In structure plans | ‘marketable’ practices

accreditation

Going local is the next step

partnerships

Theory of urban fabrics3 cities in one:Walking | Transit | Car-based

How do you regenerate places? E.g. How to create walkeable centres?

Disruptive innovations meet urban planning > create urban fabrics > consider urban metabolism> Go straight to distributed structures


Disruptive innovations meet urban planning

Regenerating? still big changes needed…


• Industrial system (eg renewable energy, solar based, blockchain,

industrial transport and freight, production of cement and steel…)

• Land systems (agriculture, forestry, open spaces, biophillic urban

design, bioregions > create ‘carbon sinks’)

Insight from 3 keynotes


Jeremy Rifkin

Herbert Girardet

Peter Newman

Understand paradigmatic shifts

Roadmaps for systemic change

More aggregate efficiency in planning

Third industrial revolution: planetary infrastructures

Urban planners are primarly concerned with structures,

Whereas they should be concerned with metabolims.

Ecopolis > Use of resources , Dependencies, Feeding the cities

Economy/ technology and cities

Develop a different attitudeDisruptive innovations?

Focus on climate aspects in different processesAnd local partnerships

Theory of urban fabricsWalking | Transit | Car-based

Too much pilot, too little encompassing? Local responsibility?‘changes are underway’?

Good for all? (normative)Possible? (explorative)How to land from a holistic approach?

How to get there?Path dependencies?

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https://iabr.nl/en/editie/iabr2018_2020

• Scale up towards a wider socio-ecological transition: interconnectivity• Embrace complex, multi-actor and multi-temporal issues• Consider flows and uses (metabolisms), not just structures• Reconsider financial systems and governance

Optimism in practice?

Incremental changes toward a radical transition?

Starting point:Merely “adapt” or to have an impact on climate change?

Systemic approach needed

https://iabr.nl/en/editie/iabr2018_2020

Pathways to post-carbon economy

• Systemic view needed to select | articulate | guide paradigmatic shifts

• Considerable role of cities and regions

Urban planners in interstices (=transdisciplinair)

for (autonomous) eco-reorganisation of spaces

• Small-scale, bottom-up and interlinked initiatives

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Insights based in global analysis

Urban challenges

Role of the urban

planner

Experiences nearby


http://francisalys.com/sometimes-making-something-leads-to-nothing/

http://francisalys.com/sometimes-making-something-leads-to-nothing/

Cool planningConstituting elements in a systemic approach to cool planningResults of different conference topics at ISOCARPDirk Van de Putte

Cool planningContemporary approaches to cool planning policies and practices in the three regions in Belgium Debate with Guy Vloebergh, Géraud Bonhomme, Jaques Teller, Jo Huyghe (moderated by Annette Kuhk)


Will this be enough?

Contemporary approaches to cool planning policies and practices in the three regions in Belgium

Climate change and changes in spatial structures in Flanders by Guy Vloebergh (senior spatial planner, Omgeving, cf. CcASPAR project)

How to make Brussels cooler: climate issues and environmental challenges in spatial policies in the BCR, by Géraud Bonhomme (project manager - territorial strategy, perspective.brussels)

Climate Change: a spatial planning perspective. by Jacques Teller (Professor at LEMA, Université de Liège)

A master plan to optimize existing and to attract new activities on site: step-by-step, flexible, environmentally regenerative redevelopment of the Abattoir. by Jo Huygh (Architect and consultant in urban and real estate development)



Climate change and changes in spatial structures in Flanders by Guy Vloebergh (senior spatial planner, Omgeving, cf. CcASPAR project)

cf. pdf

How to make Brussels cooler: climate issues and environmental challenges in spatial policies in the BCR by Géraud Bonhomme (project manager - territorial strategy, perspective.brussels)

cf. ppt


Climate Change: a spatial planning perspective. by Jacques Teller (Professor at LEMA, Université de Liège)

cf. pdf


A master plan to optimize existing and to attract new activities on site: step-by-step, flexible, environmentally regenerative redevelopment of the Abattoir. by Jo Huygh (Architect and consultant in urban and real estate development)

cf. ppt


Cool planning debate

Regional approaches to global challenges

Role and responsibility of different actors

(i.e. governmental, economic actors, research, planners and urbanists > transdisciplinary approach.. get out of the comfort zone)

Bridging between systemic and local challenges

Prospects? Instruments? Collaboration?

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Cool planning

Dr. Annette Kuhk | Humanarc Research

Hendrik Consciencelaan 16, B-2820 Bonheiden, BelgiumT: +32 485 25 88 68 [email protected] | www.humanarc.beSocio-spatial research |Coördination | Analysis, reporting, editing| Coaching for collective learning trajectories



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