Meet and Greet the LUCAS Team Welcome new PhDs

Presented by

Peer-Olaf Siebers

Using material contributed by Darren Robinson and Anthony Beck

http://web.stanford.edu/group/suss/cgi-bin/main/blog/?p=4429

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Cities are complex

• Cities are self-organising systems, expressing macroscopic structural pattern (emergent behaviour) based on microscopic interactions of their actors (individuals, firms): – Actors respond to financial, regulatory, technological and educational

stimuli and to the actions of their peers.

• This emergent behaviour is non-linear.

• Cities are far from equilibrium and open systems: – Internal entropy production (dSi) is counteracted by entropy exchange

(dSe) across the city boundaries: dS = dSi + dSe

• Entropy is produced internally, but order may be increased

– Equilibrium implies the absence of change: death.

– « Sustainable city » is an oxymoron!

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Sustainability is complex

• Interrelationships

• Conflicts

• Competition

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(Society)

(Economy) (Environment)

Sustaining Urban Habitats Project Aim and Objectives

• Project Aim – To transform our understanding of how sustainable cities can be.

• Objectives – To confront and understand the complex interrelated and competing

factors influencing urban sustainability.

– To holistically define, measure and model urban sustainability.

– To identify pathways to transition developed cities and accommodate growth in developing cities in minimally unsustainable ways.

– To define policy and governance structures to implement these pathways in practice.

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Sustaining Urban Habitats Project An Interdisciplinary Approach

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Contributed by Darren

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Sustaining Urban Habitats Deliverables

• A comprehensive theoretical framework to understand the factors influencing urban sustainability.

• A vision for what constitute near-sustainable cities: socially, economically and environmentally.

• An open framework to acquire, manage and present evidence to characterise and simulate urban sustainability.

• An open framework to simulate and optimise sustainability, applied to four case study cities.

• The types of policy and governance structure needed to implement the recommended development / transition pathways.

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The End

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