🌇Reimagine our City! 🙏🏽“You don’t motivate with fear. You motivate with hope.” 🎤This month’s Let’s Build workshop brought together professionals across the built environment to talk about climate change. Here are some headlines: - 🚗Valentina Galmozzi called for more green spaces and porous materials in our concrete jungles, not only for flood mitigation but also as a necessary cooling mechanism. - 🌱Antoinette Yetunde Oni argued that architecture and nature should be working together instead of competing with each other – showing us how it can be done through regenerative design and material innovation. - 📐Pareisse Wilson reminded us that inclusive design is not just about creating accessible spaces for people, but it’s also a key consideration to prevent costly and wasteful retrofit later down the line. - 💡Kossy Nnachetta gave us five reasons for hope, including the increasingly tenacious clients fighting for sustainable design in their projects. “Persuadable Conservation Officers” was a good one too! - 🌡️Chiara Cozzolino spoke on overheating and the associated health risks, emphasising that adaptive design across residential, commercial and public spaces is essential. - 🌊Oluwafunmbi Adeagbo shared case studies of coastal erosion from Nigeria, highlighting our responsibility to learn from global best practice and mistakes. ➡️Who is inspiring change in your industry? Join us at Let's Build for the next event on October 10th to hear more on climate change and the built environment!
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👍 This article by Francesca Perry in Friday's Financial Times is a great read (https://lnkd.in/gxViXzze). The development of "Sponge Cities" as a resilience and adaptation action in the face of climate change seems like a hopeful vector of urban development and regeneration. This sentence struck me as a very positive call to action: "The sponge city may not be delivered all at once, but perhaps project by project, pore by pore, it can emerge from collective efforts."
Sponge cities: the flood-proof architecture of the future?
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SLU is developing an excellent series of articles related to urban heat. Their latest article explores how landscape architects can create cool islands in the city in the face of global climate change and urban heat island intensification. https://lnkd.in/dNbtycMg
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📣 Historic England's Advice Note 18, 'Adapting Historic Buildings for Energy and Carbon Efficiency', has been published today (23 July 2024). 🎯 The advice note is aimed at local planning authorities, heritage consultants and others directly involved in the planning process. Key takeaways: ⏰ **The urgent need for climate action.** Further action in relation to building and construction is required to effectively mitigate and adapt to a rapidly and drastically changing climate. ♻ **Whole building approach to adaptation.** Historic England advocates for a holistic approach when adapting historic buildings for energy efficiency. This approach includes understanding the building's performance, significance, and the need for sustainable, proportionate interventions. It prioritises avoiding harm and the risk of maladaptation while considering the building's overall context. 🔋 **Common interventions for energy efficiency.** The advice note outlines common interventions for improving the energy efficiency of historic buildings. 🗒 **Permissions and decision making.** In terms of development management, the guidance emphasises the need for careful decision-making to balance heritage conservation with climate action. Cornerstone Barristers' climate team recently covered several related issues in its series of talks for Climate Month, and further information can be found on the relevant part of our website: https://lnkd.in/erng4w-Z #CornerstoneClimate #Climate #Planning #Heritage #HistoricEngland #PlanningPermission
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We need this now more than ever - holistically managed urban water systems.
90K views · 4.1K reactions | This innovative ‘porous’ city design is based on ancient Chinese wisdom. Learn more about the latest climate news from the World Economic Forum’s... | By World Economic Forum | Facebook
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The talk is based on a forthcoming paper in Urban Geography. Hope to see you there!
Interested in climate urbanism and climate-changing urban political economies? Come along to Savannah Cox upcoming seminar at USP Sheffield! Please register through the link below: https://lnkd.in/ebntuJya
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Explore the ingenious solutions implemented by Danish cities to defy the challenges of urban flooding. From cutting-edge architectural designs to innovative urban planning, this blog takes you on a journey through the strategies that keep Danish cities resilient against rising waters. Discover how these cities not only adapt to climate change but also transform potential threats into opportunities for sustainable urban living. To read more: https://dk.world/3Om2zLR
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💦 “How ‘sponge city’ Rotterdam is adapting to climate change.” As a result of our press trip Climate Adaptive Urbanism, Architects’ Journal published an extensive article. 🌳 Featuring numerous projects by De Urbanisten and the City Projects, the article gives an insightful overview of all the measures Rotterdam is taking to balance development with increased biodiversity. ✍️ As journalist Rob Wilson concludes: “For all the inherent tensions, the sheer ambition of Rotterdam’s Seven City Projects and the linking of development and environmental agendas is impressive, if not perfect. It shows what’s possible if the political will is there.” Read the article: https://bit.ly/3UkGGiW #rotterdam #resilience #newdutch #climateadaptation #urbandevelopment #biodiversity #publicspace
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🏙️Cities are key to the fight against climate change and sustainable urbanism is exactly what we might need. ⚡️This infographic explores the concept of a “15- minute city” and explains the benefits as well as the current limitations of the project. A city where all your basic necessities are accesible to you within a 15-minute walk or bike ride? Should we embrace it or reject it? Infographic and research: Sol Rodriguez
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🌿A study by the University of Surrey reveals that botanical gardens, parks, and wetlands can reduce city temperatures by up to 5°C during heatwaves, offering significant cooling effects alongside environmental benefits like carbon emission reduction and flood prevention. 🌼This analysis underscores the importance of integrating green spaces and waterways into urban planning to mitigate heat and enhance urban sustainability. 💡Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eBwKj_Uh
Wetlands, parks and even botanical gardens among the best ways to cool cities during heatwaves | University of Surrey
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Architect and Urban Planner | Management and Conservation of Cultural Heritage Specialist | Master in Cultural Landscape, Heritage, Memory and Conflicts | Environmental Management Analyst at IPHAN/MG
The climate crisis threatens all forms and styles of life. In this scenario, #Culture and #CulturalHeritage have a crucial role to play, in finding fair and inclusive paths to face the effects of #ClimateChange. I found this list of books that may help us understand the challenges of climate change and cultural heritage as part of the solution: 1. A Metamodel for Heritage-based Urban Development: Enabling Sustainable Growth Through Urban Cultural Heritage 2. Habitat: Vernacular Architecture for a Changing Climate 3. The Historic Urban Landscape: Managing Heritage in an Urban Century 4. Heritage Planning: Principles and Process 5. Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability: International Frameworks, National and Local Governance 6. Urban Centres in Asia and Latin America: Heritage and Identities in Changing Urban Landscapes Do you know any other book? Comment below! You can check the list here: https://lnkd.in/dz89J-i6
The best books to understand that cultural heritage can be part of the solution to climate change
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