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Philip Crowe discussing underused sites on walking tour, part of Open House Dublin 2015! (Image Reusing Dublin)
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George Carey Primary School gets growing
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Water Voles return to Barking Riverside
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Working Draft Prezi of the ComPass Solution
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Typology: RTD Leader: Karen Foley
This shows the workload for workpackage 3 in the course of the 5 years of the project.
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Key high-level findings and conclusions of WP3 are summarised as follows:
• Urban resilience precipitates a paradigm shift from command and control processes to adaptive and flexible approaches that recognise that change is the only constant and respects that citizens have knowledge of systems and their own actions.
• Urban resilience is not a new or abstract idea. There are examples of urban resilience in practice existing within the TURAS partner cities and regions, although the language of resilience thinking may not be referenced.
• Urban resilience promotes the use of systems thinking in relation to cities, highlighting that all systems are interconnected and interdependent, and emphasising the import of a synoptic view and layering of datasets in GIS in order to make connections and identify opportunities and vulnerabilities.
• Urban resilience requires the active engagement of citizens with their place and one another in order to build awareness and participation in effecting change.
• Urban resilience is operationalised through a continuous process of learning, adapting and adjusting generally referred to as adaptive co-management.
WP3 adds to the contemporary discourse on urban resilience by presenting a unique perspective that has been developed collaboratively between academic, municipality and SME partners, with a focus on urban communities. To date, WP3 has consisted of a research and analysis phase with interim results contributing to an Integrated Planning Model, from which tools for building urban resilience emerged. WP3 is an example of emergent design research where the principal strategies were case study research and action research.
WP3 is now in a demonstration phase where these tools are being trialled on pilot sites in order to explore new adaptive and flexible approaches in urban and industrial regeneration, multifunctional land-use planning, and creative design.
Looking further into the future WP3 aims to contribute to a sustainable legacy of the TURAS project by putting forward a number of ‘sweets’ or practices for development in WP7 that it is hoped will be adopted by municipalities within the partners cities and regions, and further afield, going forward.
WP3 proposes a process of adaptive co-management and design, inferring the need to actively solve problems collaboratively by exercising imagination and creativity. This process is broken down into 11 key aspects that are put forward as a basis for the operationalisation of urban resilience. The 11 key aspects are the conclusion of WP3 research as to what urban resilience means in practice, and set out radical new spatial scenarios for urban neighbourhoods.
• Understanding the system;
Facilitate active observation:
Make information accessible:
Identify drivers of change:
Adopt broader value systems:
• Operating within the system;
Adopt less hierarchical approaches:
Collaborate and support:
Work across disciplines and departments:
• Adaptive and flexible approaches;
Adopt experimental approaches:
Build community capital:
• Efficient use of resources.
Design for change:
Use what exists optimally.
Overall objective:
To examine innovative solutions for engaging in urban regeneration, multi-functional land use planning and holistic and creative design by examining emerging themes in urban development and design. For example, the use of organic materials and green processes that are inspired by nature (i.e. biomimicry), the exploitation of dormant or disused development sites, existing poor quality or under-used public parks and spaces left over after planning (SLOAP) and explore potential for creative design using collaborative processes.
Sub-objectives:
T3.1 Workpackage kick-off meeting
Lead Partner: UCD (ALCE / GPEP). Other Partners: All WP participants
T3.2 Examine the potential for alternative resilient solutions through development of co-ordinated system of land use planning
Lead Partners: U STUTT (SI/ILPE) Other Partners: UCD (ALCE / GPEP), IFS,LjubU'
T3.3 Research mechanisms and strategies to unlock the potential of abandoned, deserted, vacant or contaminated urban sites at various levels and spatial scales
Lead Partners: Dermot Foley Landscape Architects Ltd. Other Partners: Robert Emmett Community Development Project / UCD (ALCE), HELIX, IFS,LjubU
T3.4 Inventory of sites with the potential for drawing on community capital to enhance social resilience structures
Lead Partners: UCD (GPEP). Other Partners: All local authority partners
T3.5 Assess the sustainable re-use use of buildings on vacant sites
Lead Partners: UCD (ALCE). Other Partner: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
T3.6 Establish mechanisms for engaging in collaborative planning processes and community-driven actions
Lead Partners: Nottingham Development Enterprise (NDE).
Other Partners: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham / Dublin City Council / UCD (GPEP)
Undertake a baseline study and identify the resilience potential of each neighbourhood in terms of:
T3.7 Identify mechanisms for creating new and innovative funding
Lead Partner: Nottingham Development Enterprise (NDE)
T3.8 Assess and expand upon the novel concept of ‘urban comfort zones’ and develop strategies for their incorporation into existing planning processes
Lead Partners: U STUTT (SI/ILPE). Other Partners: All local authorities / HELIX
T3.9 Pilot test combined strategies in selected neighbourhoods
Lead Partners: DCC Other partners: Local authorities in Dublin, Nottingham, London, Stuttgart
T3.10 Measure impact and results of pilot actions and contribute to development of integrated transition strategy for non participating cities
Lead Partner: U STUTT
Id | Urban/Industrial Regeneration, Land Use planning and Creative Design |
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M3.15 |
Interdisciplinary policy analysis, literature review, methodology assessment, and holistic vision of transition strategies for the ‘mainstreaming’ of resilience thinking into urban planning and socio-economic development
Literature analysis Expected by: M18 |
M3.16 |
Completion of an integrated model for the re-use of unused buildings, Greenfield and Brownfield sites, and SLOAPs that are creatively designed to be used for community gain and for transitioning towards resilient scenarios
Model operational and in use by local authorities Expected by: M24 |
M3.17 |
Completion of a planning and management toolkit that builds upon citizen-led / collaborative planning processes and provides a mechanism for the integration and innovative approach to building resilience into urban neighbourhoods
Publication of toolkit Expected by: M36 |
M3.18 |
Establishing several demonstration sites within urban neighbourhoods where transition strategies will be trialled and assessed. These will then be available for use in disseminating resilient strategies to the wider community at local, national and international levels
Inventory complete Expected by: M46 |
Id | Urban/Industrial Regeneration, Land Use planning and Creative Design | |
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D3.4 |
Production of spatial scenarios for urban neighbourhoods that incorporate models for collaborative and citizen-led planning, a guidance toolkit for planners and feasibility strategies for the novel funding of transitioning towards urban resilience
Expected by: M36 |