Resilient and Sustainable Cities

Research, Policy and Practice

1st Edition - December 6, 2022
Imprint: Elsevier
Editors: Zaheer Allam, Didier Chabaud, Catherine Gall, Florent Pratlong, Carlos Moreno
Language: English
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The role of Cities in driving global economies has been well covered, and their impact on the larger ecosystem is well documented. Resilient and Sustainable Cities: Research, Policy and Practice explores how cities can be transformed into sustainable fabrics, while leading to positive socio-economic change.

The topics include urban policy and covers the challenges cities experienced during the pandemic and resulting urban responses from federal, state, and local levels. This includes a transdisciplinary perspective dwelling on the city narrative, including Resources, Economics, Politics, and others.

Resilient and Sustainable Cities
serves as a valuable resource for leaders and practitioners working in Urban Policy and academia, as well as students in urban planning, architecture, and policy undergraduate and graduate level programs.

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Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Section I. The ‘15-minute city’ concept: sustainability, resilience, and inclusivity
Chapter 1. Coworking and the 15-Minute City
1. Working in the 15-Minute City: the commuting time issue
2. Coworking: the development of a new way of working
3. The new urban functions of coworking: third place and amenity
4. The location of coworking spaces: a spatial network
5. Conclusion
Chapter 2. The theoretical grid. An antifragile strategy for Rome post-COVID mobility
1. Introduction. Context, methodology, and goals of the research
2. Urban form and mobility models. An integrated approach in the post-COVID era
3. Mobility post-COVID emergency planning in great European cities. Experiences and strategies
4. The theoretical grid. Guidelines and experimentation
5. Conclusions. Perspectives of the proposed strategy
6. Author’s contributions
Chapter 3. Measuring the 15-Minute City in Barcelona. A geospatial three-method comparison
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
6. Appendix
Chapter 4. The Paris urban plan review : an opportunity to put the 15-Minute City concept into the perspective of the Parisians desire for nature
1. Introduction
2. Materials and method
3. Conclusion
Chapter 5. Exploring the relationship of time keeping and urban morphology within the economic renaissance and the postmodern era
1. Introduction
2. Time keeping and economic growth
3. Modernism, the industrial revolution and the car
4. The challenge of car dependent cities
5. The contemporary urban state, criticisms, and future directions
Chapter 6. Enter the 15-minute city: revisiting the smart city concept under a proximity based planning lens
1. Introduction
2. On the smart city and its impact on the societal fabric
3. Proximity-based urban Philosophies and its regenerative potential
4. Chrono-urbanism under a technological blanket
5. The 15-minute city; aka the smart city 2.0
Chapter 7. On proximity-based dimensions and urban planning: historical precepts to the 15-minute city
1. Introduction
2. On proximity based planning
3. Leon Krier’s city within a city
4. On the evolution of cities and the application of technology
5. The 15-minute city as an evolutive process: discussions and conclusion
Chapter 8. Financing the 15-minute city concept and its infrastructural ecosystem in developing nations through fiscal mechanisms
1. Introduction
2. The 15-minute city and notable benefits
3. Traditional financing of urban infrastructure and the challenge for developing economies
4. Modern monetary theory and its inaplicability to developing nations
5. Fiscally accelerating infrastructural development
Chapter 9. Redefining investable infrastructure in developing nations in a postpandemic era: the case of the 15-Minute City
1. Introduction
2. Urban economic policy in the post pandemic era
3. Infrastructure investment structuring in developing nations
4. The need to refedine “investable infrastructure”
5. Toward a model for quantifying indirect economic benefits for investable infrastructure
Section II. Cities, technology, and sustainability
Chapter 10. Smarter cities, smarter planning: an exploration into the role of planners within the smart city movement
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
3. Methodology
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusions
Chapter 11. A smart territory, the key to resilient territory
1. Introduction
2. Smartization of territories
3. Resilience concept
4. Smart territory towards resilient territory
5. Conclusion
Chapter 12. Re-assessing urban sustainability in the digital age: a new SWOT methodology for cities
1. Introduction
2. Cities and parameters
3. SWOT analysis
4. SWOT methodology for cities
5. Adaptation and application
6. Conclusion
Chapter 13. Charrette! An urgent response toward resilient and sustainable cities and landscapes
1. Crisis and the charrette
2. Aims
3. Method
4. Findings/results
5. Discussion
6. Can charrettes deliver on their promise of designing for sustainable and resilient cities and landscapes?
7. Limitations and further research directions
8. Conclusion
Chapter 14. Developing a composite indicator for evaluating urban sustainability
1. Introduction
2. Approach and methodology
3. Results
4. Conclusion
Chapter 15. Scrutinizing sustainable mobility strategies in integrated urban development: perspectives from Copenhagen and Curitiba
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
3. Research design and methods
4. Data analysis and results
5. Discussions
6. Conclusion
Section III. Culture, liveability, and identity
Chapter 16. For a close and livable public space: four proposals in Barcelona
1. Introduction
2. Four proposals in Barcelona
3. Conclusions
Chapter 17. Will future smart cities be liveable?
1. Introduction
2. Quality of life issues in smart cities
3. A disappointing record in terms of the good life
4. Learning cities and smart cities: towards an hybrid model?
5. Conclusion
Chapter 18. Third places as catalysts of resilience
1. Introduction
2. Third places: evolution, characteristics, and overview
3. Third places, hybridities, and resilience capacities
4. Conclusion
Chapter 19. Health impact assessment: an innovative approach for 15-minute cities
1. Introduction
2. The 15-minute city model and health
3. Health impact assessment
4. How can HIAs help make the 15-minute city vision become a reality?
5. The challenges ahead
6. HIAs and practical way forward for 15-minute cities
7. Conclusion
Section IV. Climate change and resilient cities
Chapter 20. The influence of climate change on the design strategies of the built environment: the heterogeneous climate of Italy analyzed in future scenarios
1. Introduction
2. Materials and method
3. Conclusion
Chapter 21. The next level up is down: exploring the subsurface for our common future
1. Introduction
2. Historical approaches to using underground spaces
3. Value of underground spaces
4. Investing in underground spaces
5. Key challenges and barriers
6. Conclusion
Chapter 22. A collective of resilient organizations together to build a resilient city: issues and perspectives
1. Introduction
2. Collectively resilient organizations: issues of absorption, renewal, and appropriation in the face of multiple challenges…
3. Becoming collectively learning organizations: multiple challenges
4. Conclusion
Chapter 23. City wild: how making space for nature might help achieve the sustainable and resilient city
1. Crisis
2. Time to go wild?
3. The future city
4. Conclusion
Chapter 24. Predictive modeling for reforestation of cities to mitigate climate change impacts
1. Introduction
2. Materials and method
3. Results
4. Discussion
Chapter 25. Neighborhood's scale resilience facing heatwave events. Metropolitan area of Mendoza—Argentina as an study case
1. Introduction
2. Materials and method
3. Results
4. Conclusion
Chapter 26. A GIS-based tool for planning resilient climate cities
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
3. Methodology
4. Case study: implementation of a GIS-based tool for the eastern neighborhood of Naples
5. Results and discussion
6. Conclusions
Chapter 27. Citizens and local administration in climate change mitigation. Urban strategies and local actions applicable to neighborhoods
1. Introduction
2. The environment and sustainability legal framework in the European context
3. Case study. People-centric projects
4. Results
5. Conclusion
Chapter 28. Re-envisaging cities: biophilic and First Nations strategies from Australia
1. Introduction
2. Cities and noncities
3. Wadawurrung country re-envisaging cities
4. Values of deep connections to nature—Biophilia
5. Biophilic cities in the Australian context
6. Re-envisaging Geelong as a Biophilic City
7. Conclusions
Chapter 29. Building urban resilience through infrastructure exaptation
1. Introduction
2. Understanding urban resilience
3. Exaptation
4. National health services enhancement strategy in Mexico
5. Discussion and conclusion: exaptation of the city a means to counter pandemics
Section V. Urban management and sustainable resource optimization
Chapter 30. Management of city vulnerability to bushfire risk using advanced GIS-based spatial tools
1. Introduction
2. Materials and method
3. Results
4. Conclusion
Chapter 31. Adaptive reuse of abandoned urban assets for cultural and social innovative development
1. Introduction
2. State-of-the-art
3. Methodology
4. Case study: application to the Municipality of Naples
5. Conclusive remarks
Chapter 32. Sustainability in public administration: governance and accountability in French metropolitan area
1. Introduction
2. The concept of sustainable development, or the quest for the legitimacy of metropolises
3. Tools of overall performance
4. The methodology
5. Results and discussion
6. Conclusion
Appendix
Chapter 33. Sustainable development in hydro-drought regions by improving hydro-indicators
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
3. Case studies
4. Modeling hydro-drought trend in Mirjaveh
5. Findings and discussions
6. Conclusions
Index

Zaheer Allam

Dr. Zaheer Allam holds a PhD in Humanities, a Master of Arts (Res), an MBA, and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Architectural Science from universities in Australia and the United Kingdom. Based in Mauritius, he was the first Chairperson of the National Youth Environment Council (NYEC) at the Prime Minister’s Office in Mauritius, and is currently a board member of the Mauritius Renewable Energy Agency (MARENA). He works on several projects on the thematic of Smart Cities and on strategies dwelling in the increasing role of technology in culture and society. Zaheer is also the African Representative of the International Society of Biourbanism (ISB), member of the Advisory Circle of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), and a member of several other international bodies. He holds several awards and commendations and is the author of over 145 peer reviewed publications and author of 10 books about Smart, Sustainable and Future Cities.

Affiliations and expertise

Deakin University, Victoria, Australia

Didier Chabaud

Full Professor of entrepreneurship at IAE Paris Sorbonne Business School, where he is director of the Entrepreneurship Territory Innovation research group (Chaire ETI), Past-President of French Academy of entrepreneurship and innovation, senior editor of Revue de l’entrepreneuriat (A in French national HCERES ranking), he is author or co-author of more than one hundred articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals, chapters or books. He works mainly on venturing processes, the strategies of Family Firms, and on the impact of institutions and culture on place entrepreneurship.

Affiliations and expertise

IAE PARIS Sorbonne Business School, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France

Catherine Gall

Catherine Gall is the Executive Director of the Sorbonne based ETI Research. The laboratory (Entrepreneurship Territory Innovation) was created by Professors Carlos Moreno, Didier Chabaud and Florent Pratlong and specialized in challenging conventional city planning models. The ETI Lab is well known today for their “15-minute City Model”. Catherine is also an experienced creative design thinker, business leader and entrepreneur, as well as a member of the Responsible Leaders Network of the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt.

Affiliations and expertise

Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France

Florent Pratlong

Florent Pratlong, is the Vice President of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University, looking at Entrepreneuriat and Partnerships, and is responsible for the Master of innovation management at the Sorbonne School of Management (Paris I) and Secretary at the Academy of Technology. He also participates in Club actions from Paris Directors of Innovation, he designed and deployed training programs in innovation, learning expeditions.

Affiliations and expertise

Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France

Carlos Moreno

Associate Professor at IAE Paris Sorbonne Business School, and Scientific Director of the Chair ‘Entrepreneurship Territory Innovation’, Carlos Moreno earned recognition as a scientist with an innovative mind, pioneer works and his unique approach on urban issues. He is also a scientific advisor of national and international figures of the highest level. He works at the heart of issues of international significance as a result of his research, bringing an innovative perspective on urban issues and offering solutions to the issues faced by the cities, metropolises and territories during the 21st century. Some of his concepts traveled the world: the Human Smart City, the 15mn City, the Territory of 30mn.

Affiliations and expertise

IAE PARIS Sorbonne Business School, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France

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