For the past years, global warming has been a major problem in the world, therefore it has been foreseen that to be able to limit it to 1.5º, it is important to reduce the emissions generated by 7.6% every year from 2020 to 2030. As the European Union has remarked,...
Public spaces
A public space is where people can perform a series of functions that are shared between all. Also, “a public space is an urban place that is generally open and accessible to people in a city.” (Geray, 2020)
Public spaces are considered key elements of regenerative planning strategies. Some spaces are open areas, green areas, squares, streets, gardens within others. Important functions that must be taken into consideration are the social, economic and cultural. The way in which public spaces are characterized tend to show or determine their value as soul of the city, for it to be preserved and appreciated.
Urban planning makes possible that public spaces generate value-creation processes. This planning may be directed to the implementation of regenerative metropolitan cities models, mainly in complex and vulnerable cities. The model shows a sustainable city as a regenerative new form of capital. The main characteristic of the model is the circular organization processes.
“The regenerative model regenerates not only resources, energy, water, natural ecosystems on which the human life depends, but also the various relationships that allow the systems to work, and on which wellbeing of populations depends.” (Fusco Girard & Nocca, 2019)
Legal and political factors (only European level)
The European Green Deal makes the concept of circular economy the centre of efforts to transform the European Union into a fair and prosperous society, where economic growth is decoupled from resource use and environmental harm. In light of the socio-economic impact...
Social and cultural factors
For economic expansion, investment is an important aspect which depends on mobility, safety and attractiveness, this together makes the cycle of public space. Public spaces provide important benefits to businesses in formal and informal ways. Another...
Technological factors
The smart digital networking of public spaces has help improve not just the space and quality, but statements about the city dwellers should be possible to make thanks to the collection of dynamic data. Constant evaluation can be used as a basis for the development of...
Examples of innovative solutions (good practices)
Urbanscapes Group organized the symposium with the main objective of bringing together experts, practitioners and users from different countries and backgrounds to review and discuss existing tools and approaches in implementing good public urban spaces, and to...
References
Fusco Girard, L., & Nocca, F. (2019). Moving Towards the Circular Economy/City Model: Which Tools for Operationalizing This Model? Sustainability, 11(22), 36–48. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11226253 Geray, O. (2020). A guide to circular cities....
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