Urban Development 2050 Planning resource-efficient cities

Wien - Austria
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 will present 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 will be of particular interest to:Urban development policy makers, urban planners and administrators, climate change researchers, urban networks, NGOs

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http://sume.at/Conference