Plantas
Urban Ecological Foundations for Climate Solutions ecocity2009.com
"Cities Can Save the Earth" e "Peace on Earth, Peace with Earth" são lemas deste encontro
Get the city right and everything else has a chance. It's big. It's basic. If our built environment is well organized and well designed, we can go a long way toward solving transport, energy, biodiversity, agricultural and climate problems. This is a rare insight in today's econmoic and environmental debate. It is crucial and this conference is putting it forward at a time of historic necessity.
Why cities?
Cities cover less than 1% of the earth's surface but are responsible for up to 75% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. With more than 50% of the world's population living in cities (set to reach 60% by 2030), there is a ripe opportunity for humanity to reconsider the way we approach the built environment.
Reasons to Attend
Cities are complex, and enacting meaningful change while working with multiple constituencies can be filled with setbacks and frustration. What are the key ingredients for a successful plan that, after months and even years of work, doesn’t end up gathering dust on the shelf or become so watered down that the original vision is lost? What are the basic principles of ecocity design, planning and implementation, and how do they apply to already built out cities as well as new ecocity projects and proposals? Find out how ecocity practitioners — from architects, planners, designers and community organizers to government and political leaders — pull together the right teams of people with good ideas and get their projects up and running, in many cases with limited financial resources and sometimes despite a mountain of political opposition.
- A Cidade Não é Uma árvore
... When compared with ancient cities that have acquired the patina of life, our modern attempts to create cities artificially are, from a human point of view, entirely unsuccessful. Both the tree and the semilattice are ways of thinking about how...
- ... It´s Going To Be Ok
"Cities on Speed, GLOBAL VISIONS FOR an urban FUTURE is a documentary project commissioned by The Danish Film Institute and the national broadcaster DR . The project is a series of four films – Bogotà Change, Mumbai Disconnected, Cairo Garbage,...
- Compreender A Cidade Pós-industrial
"The engaged scientists and also possible "users" of the results will be given the opportunity to learn and to understand whichsimilar macro-processes (metropolisation, post-industrialism etc) are framing urban development and what the room tomanoeuvre...
- Blog Action Day - Day Action - Action
David Harvey - we have to go out and change the world....and think about the world as a social project, a political project and a environmental project, and they are all the same project in the end...
- Parks For People - 18.11.2008, Nottingham Arena
A conference looking at how to involve communities in the management, maintenance and improvement of parks and green space Click here to download the conference program (PDF) The contextCommunity involvement is a crucial factor in creating and maintaining...
Plantas
Ecocity World Summit 2009
Urban Ecological Foundations for Climate Solutions ecocity2009.com
"Cities Can Save the Earth" e "Peace on Earth, Peace with Earth" são lemas deste encontro
Get the city right and everything else has a chance. It's big. It's basic. If our built environment is well organized and well designed, we can go a long way toward solving transport, energy, biodiversity, agricultural and climate problems. This is a rare insight in today's econmoic and environmental debate. It is crucial and this conference is putting it forward at a time of historic necessity.
Why cities?
Cities cover less than 1% of the earth's surface but are responsible for up to 75% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. With more than 50% of the world's population living in cities (set to reach 60% by 2030), there is a ripe opportunity for humanity to reconsider the way we approach the built environment.
Reasons to Attend
Cities are complex, and enacting meaningful change while working with multiple constituencies can be filled with setbacks and frustration. What are the key ingredients for a successful plan that, after months and even years of work, doesn’t end up gathering dust on the shelf or become so watered down that the original vision is lost? What are the basic principles of ecocity design, planning and implementation, and how do they apply to already built out cities as well as new ecocity projects and proposals? Find out how ecocity practitioners — from architects, planners, designers and community organizers to government and political leaders — pull together the right teams of people with good ideas and get their projects up and running, in many cases with limited financial resources and sometimes despite a mountain of political opposition.
- A Cidade Não é Uma árvore
... When compared with ancient cities that have acquired the patina of life, our modern attempts to create cities artificially are, from a human point of view, entirely unsuccessful. Both the tree and the semilattice are ways of thinking about how...
- ... It´s Going To Be Ok
"Cities on Speed, GLOBAL VISIONS FOR an urban FUTURE is a documentary project commissioned by The Danish Film Institute and the national broadcaster DR . The project is a series of four films – Bogotà Change, Mumbai Disconnected, Cairo Garbage,...
- Compreender A Cidade Pós-industrial
"The engaged scientists and also possible "users" of the results will be given the opportunity to learn and to understand whichsimilar macro-processes (metropolisation, post-industrialism etc) are framing urban development and what the room tomanoeuvre...
- Blog Action Day - Day Action - Action
David Harvey - we have to go out and change the world....and think about the world as a social project, a political project and a environmental project, and they are all the same project in the end...
- Parks For People - 18.11.2008, Nottingham Arena
A conference looking at how to involve communities in the management, maintenance and improvement of parks and green space Click here to download the conference program (PDF) The contextCommunity involvement is a crucial factor in creating and maintaining...