THE MOST EFFICIENT CITIES ARE TODAY COMPACT CITIES: The best cities today, the most efficient ones, are today compact cities. And compact cities are, generally, large-scale cities. This is the revolutionary result of an international research on the VIPER done by a network of important American and European universities (University of Miami, University of Notre Dame, University of Ferrara) and centers of research (INTBAU-London, AVOE-Bologna, Fondation pour l'Architecture-Bruxelles). It radically changes the concept of a small and medium-sized cities as the most desirable in terms of urban environment. Today, in fact, small-size and medium-size cities are constantly menaced by large-scale commercial malls that deeply contribute to transform inner city neighborhoods into a dangerous desert area. It mostly happens in Europe where the new commercial malls daily attract thousands of cars, thus causing the explosion of pollution rates. The increasing level of CO2 emission by the citizens abandoning cities and going to mall parking areas together with the decay of inner city neighborhoods and districts put small and medium-size cities in danger in case of a oil-crisis. The results of the VIPER research will be presented at ECCN conference and show clearly that today sprawl is not desirable. The compact city is the most efficient and the most desirable one. AIMS AND TOPICS OF ECCN: - INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE ECO-COMPACY CITY - THE DEMAND FOR CHANGE: THE POWER OF ARCHITECTURE IN THE AGE OF FINANCIAL CRISIS - STOPPING SPRAWL AND THE DESTRUCTION OF BOTH THE NATURAL HABITAT AND CITIES - EU PERIPHERIES RENAISSANCE AND MIXED-USE ENVIRONMENTS TODAY: CUTTING CRIME CREATING URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD - PROMOTING SMART GROWTH COMMUNITIES AND TRANSPORTATION CHOICES REDUCING POLLUTION - PLANNING AND DESIGN: TRANSECT & URBAN CODE TOOLS - CASE STUDIES: NEW CITIES, TRADITIONAL NEIGHBOURHOOD DEVELOPMENTS, URBAN INFILL, URBAN REVITALIZATIONS - ROLES FOR THE PUBLIC SECTOR - WHAT ROLE DOES RETAIL PLAYS ? - SUSTAINABLE RETAIL DEVELOPMENT PRINCIPLES - THE URBAN PATTERN: MAIN STREETS, BLOCKS, SQUARES, AND ACCESSIBILITY - MALLS: TO BUILD OR NOT TO BUILD, THIS IS THE QUESTION TRANSFORMING SUBURBS DEMOLISHING MALLS AND BULDING NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTERS - DIVERSITY, RETAIL PERFORMANCES AND PUBLIC SPACE AS KEY-FACTOR TO CROWDSOURCING COOL PLACES AND IMPROVE MUNICIPAL ECONOMY - CASE STUDIES - TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AS PLACEMAKING - TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: ACCESS, MOBILITY, AND DEVELOPMENT - RAIL STRATEGY AT THE TOWN/CITY/NEIGHBOURHOOD SCALE: METRO, LIGHT RAIL, REGIONAL RAIL - BUS AND RAPID BUS URBAN LINES - TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT - PUBLIC TRANSPORT AND STREET NETWORK EFFICIENCY - COMPARISON OF URABAN AND SUB-URBAN DEVELOPMENT: ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, TAXES, AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS - CASE STUDIES
Eco-Compact City Network (ECCN) FOUNDING CONGRESS, 2009 September 26 - Quartiere Santo Stefano, Comune di Bologna Via Santo Stefano 119, Bologna 40125 organized by CIVICARCH Lab-University of Ferrara (Engineering Department) and A VISION OF EUROPE
TAGLIAVENTI, Gabriele;BUCCI, Alessandro
2009
Abstract
THE MOST EFFICIENT CITIES ARE TODAY COMPACT CITIES: The best cities today, the most efficient ones, are today compact cities. And compact cities are, generally, large-scale cities. This is the revolutionary result of an international research on the VIPER done by a network of important American and European universities (University of Miami, University of Notre Dame, University of Ferrara) and centers of research (INTBAU-London, AVOE-Bologna, Fondation pour l'Architecture-Bruxelles). It radically changes the concept of a small and medium-sized cities as the most desirable in terms of urban environment. Today, in fact, small-size and medium-size cities are constantly menaced by large-scale commercial malls that deeply contribute to transform inner city neighborhoods into a dangerous desert area. It mostly happens in Europe where the new commercial malls daily attract thousands of cars, thus causing the explosion of pollution rates. The increasing level of CO2 emission by the citizens abandoning cities and going to mall parking areas together with the decay of inner city neighborhoods and districts put small and medium-size cities in danger in case of a oil-crisis. The results of the VIPER research will be presented at ECCN conference and show clearly that today sprawl is not desirable. The compact city is the most efficient and the most desirable one. AIMS AND TOPICS OF ECCN: - INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE ECO-COMPACY CITY - THE DEMAND FOR CHANGE: THE POWER OF ARCHITECTURE IN THE AGE OF FINANCIAL CRISIS - STOPPING SPRAWL AND THE DESTRUCTION OF BOTH THE NATURAL HABITAT AND CITIES - EU PERIPHERIES RENAISSANCE AND MIXED-USE ENVIRONMENTS TODAY: CUTTING CRIME CREATING URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD - PROMOTING SMART GROWTH COMMUNITIES AND TRANSPORTATION CHOICES REDUCING POLLUTION - PLANNING AND DESIGN: TRANSECT & URBAN CODE TOOLS - CASE STUDIES: NEW CITIES, TRADITIONAL NEIGHBOURHOOD DEVELOPMENTS, URBAN INFILL, URBAN REVITALIZATIONS - ROLES FOR THE PUBLIC SECTOR - WHAT ROLE DOES RETAIL PLAYS ? - SUSTAINABLE RETAIL DEVELOPMENT PRINCIPLES - THE URBAN PATTERN: MAIN STREETS, BLOCKS, SQUARES, AND ACCESSIBILITY - MALLS: TO BUILD OR NOT TO BUILD, THIS IS THE QUESTION TRANSFORMING SUBURBS DEMOLISHING MALLS AND BULDING NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTERS - DIVERSITY, RETAIL PERFORMANCES AND PUBLIC SPACE AS KEY-FACTOR TO CROWDSOURCING COOL PLACES AND IMPROVE MUNICIPAL ECONOMY - CASE STUDIES - TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AS PLACEMAKING - TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: ACCESS, MOBILITY, AND DEVELOPMENT - RAIL STRATEGY AT THE TOWN/CITY/NEIGHBOURHOOD SCALE: METRO, LIGHT RAIL, REGIONAL RAIL - BUS AND RAPID BUS URBAN LINES - TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT - PUBLIC TRANSPORT AND STREET NETWORK EFFICIENCY - COMPARISON OF URABAN AND SUB-URBAN DEVELOPMENT: ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, TAXES, AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS - CASE STUDIESI documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
