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Hallmarks of a Sustainable City Published in 2009 by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment Hallmarks of a sustainable city Published in 2009 by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. Edited by Paul Brown. Design: johnson banks. Printed by Seacourt Ltd on Revive recycled paper, using the waterless offset printing process (0 per cent water and 0 per cent isopropyl alcohol or harmful substitutes), 100 per cent renewable energy and vegetable oil-based inks. Seacourt Ltd holds EMAS and ISO 14001 environmental accreditations. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, copied or transmitted without the prior written consent of the publisher except that the material may be photocopied for non-commercial purposes without permission from the publisher. This document is available in alternative formats on request from the publisher. CABE is the government’s advisor on architecture, urban design and public space. As a public body, we encourage policymakers to create places that work for people. We help local planners apply national design policy and advise developers and architects, persuading them to put people’s needs first. We show public sector clients how to commission projects that meet the needs of theirusers. And we seek to inspire the public to demand more from their buildings and spaces. Advising, influencing and inspiring, we work to create well-designed,welcoming places. CABE 1 Kemble Street London WC2B 4AN T 020 7070 6700 F 020 7070 6777 E [email protected] www.cabe.org.uk www.sustainablecities.org.uk This document is available in alternative formats on request from CABE. Contents 1 The opportunity of climate change 2 Where do you start? 3 How to recognise a sustainable city 4 What needs to be done? 5 Policy recommendations 1 2 The opportunity of climate change The world’s climate is changing. The scientific remarkable opportunity for positive change. But evidence is incontrovertible: most of this change we need to think big. The costs to the Exchequer is due to human activity, and the process is if the country faced a food or water crisis, or a speeding up as more and more carbon dioxide, power shortage, would dwarf the bail-out to the methane and other greenhouse gases are pumped banking sector. into the atmosphere. This is why CABE views investment in sustainable The next 10 years are critical. Carbon dioxide development as a national insurance policy. It is not emissions must be cut rapidly. If they are, according just a responsibility for markets to take on, but a to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, positive choice for government to make and the we may limit the rise in global temperatures to public to endorse. two degrees centigrade. But if we continue on regardless – and towns and cities contribute up In the context of an international ‘green new deal’, to half of all emissions – the rise could be up to it is encouraging that relatively small investments six degrees centigrade. can deliver so much. It can create new jobs, limit the environmental impact of towns and cities, and This could trigger mass extinction of many plants reduce the cost of running them. Oxford City and animals, a complete loss of ice sheets, rising Council, for example, recently invested £200,000 sea levels and significantly altered weather in energy efficiency, alongside the Carbon Trust. patterns. There is no luxury of time. This has become a revolving loan fund for measures that will payback within five years. And it is cost Even in the northern hemisphere, where the impact neutral, because annual payments into the fund could be less than elsewhere, the effects from a match the annual savings made in energy bills. rise of two degrees will be felt by every town and city. As more and more of the world’s population Cities that respond well to climate change will be crowds into cities, the urban environment needs more efficient, resilient places. That response can to become a better place to live: a place also help to solve social and economic problems, that improves health, well-being and economic such as fuel poverty and traffic congestion, and so prosperity while simultaneously – and dramatically deliver a better quality of life. – reducing greenhouse gas emissions. If civic leaders can see that a vigorous response This means re-designing how we think and how we delivers what their citizens want, then creating a organise our lives. It requires courage, vision and low carbon, sustainable environment becomes a leadership. These are being shown by some places, promising arena for change instead of a quagmire. such as Manchester, Seattle and Toronto, which recognise climate change as one of several Plenty of technological aids are emerging, of critical environmental symptoms attributable to course. So far, none of them offers a silver bullet. unsustainable ways of living and over-consumption The real answer lies in changing the way we of resources. But such inspirational examples are govern, finance, manage and design cities. still all too rare. Alongside the climate crisis, we face an economic crisis. Rather than the world’s economic malaise diverting attention from the need to become more sustainable, the two problems in fact provide a 3 Where do you start? For towns and cities to be economically flow. This green infrastructure should be as much a competitive, socially progressive and priority for a successful place as grey infrastructure environmentally responsible, they must reduce – like the road network, or the sewage system. their inefficient use of finite resources. CABE believes every place can become better by: Forging a new city vision and infrastructure through civic leadership and collective action Understanding and nurturing its unique Creating sustainable places will require the qualities as the basis of its response to public, private and voluntary sectors to collaborate a changing climate effectively. Reliance on the market to deliver Each town and city is different, shaped by the essentials, even banking or housing, has evident geography of the place itself, the passage of time shortcomings. What is needed is a new market and the people who live there. The best solutions model which endures over the long term because for one place may not suit another. It is therefore it delivers sustained value. essential to understand what physically shapes your town or city – the land, water and wind – and how Running a town or city depends upon engaging that can contribute towards resilience, for instance the whole community. Gaining enthusiastic consent to extremes of weather. for the changes required means two things: first, providing impressive cultural and political Knowledge of the nature of a place needs to be leadership – people are very much influenced teamed up with knowledge of the local impacts of by seeing others take risks: second, using climate change, from the UK Climate Impacts communications channels imaginatively, so that Programme. Local authorities that embed this more people appreciate the benefits of a low analysis in their local development framework and energy, low emission lifestyle and want it core strategy can establish a policy for the for themselves. decisions to make them sustainable. Knowing your starting point, setting Using the planning system to target targets, and celebrating progress interventions at the most appropriate scale At the heart of the challenge is a requirement to Good spatial planning should shape our urban reduce the ecological footprint of our towns and environment. It allows us to respond to complex cities. A reliable baseline is essential. City-wide needs at the most appropriate scale – whether consumption of all natural and man-made resources regional, city or neighbourhood. The planning should then follow the rule of the four Rs: reduce; system has struggled to distribute activities in re-use; recycle and recover. The use of energy and a sustainable way. water, and the reduction of waste, must be monitored from the start of any new programme, It should always be possible to walk, cycle or take alongside carbon emissions. public transport to work, to school or college, to shops, to the park or the cinema. When the planning Each town or city should set specific reduction system gets these kinds of basics right, it will targets, so that it can measure its success. The provide busy, distracted citizens with a genuine progress of everyone’s efforts to reduce their choice to reduce their carbon emissions. impact on the environment should be updated regularly – and published. We can then celebrate Vitally, we need to use the landscape of towns and everything that is being achieved or hold authorities cities – trees, parks, rivers and lakes – to mimic to account when they fall short. natural processes, like water flow and cooling air 4 5 6 How to recognise a sustainable city I An appetite for change I Leaders who can think long term I Working across administrative boundaries I Freedom to control land and assets I Complete focus on whole-life value An appetite for change term while business provides short-term profits We are not currently meeting the challenge of for investors. climate change. A review by CABE in 2008 of 700 planned major construction projects and Local government needs to decide to use its housing schemes showed that the issue was being resources and assets in an innovative way, and taken seriously in only a fraction of them. So a provide sufficient stability and a level playing field complete change of priorities is required. to give business the confidence to invest in a place. The key for civic leaders is fully understanding From now on, city leaders must establish the market the issues and then creating a public mandate for rules within which decisions are made. It is up to action.
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