Designing Sustainable Urban Futures Marius Albiez, Gerhard Banse, Kenyon C. Lindeman, Alexandra Quint (Eds.) Designing Sustainable Urban Futures Concepts and Practices from Different Countries Designing Sustainable Urban Futures Concepts and Practices from Different Countries Edited by Marius Albiez, Gerhard Banse, Kenyon C. Lindeman, Alexandra Quint Impressum Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) KIT Scientific Publishing Straße am Forum 2 D-76131 Karlsruhe KIT Scientific Publishing is a registered trademark of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Reprint using the book cover is not allowed. www.ksp.kit.edu This document – excluding the cover, pictures and graphs – is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 DE License (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/ The cover page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives 3.0 DE License (CC BY-ND 3.0 DE): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/de/ Print on Demand 2016 ISBN 978-3-7315-0543-3 DOI 10.5445/KSP/1000055831 Contents Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 1 Marius Albiez, Gerhard Banse, Kenyon C. Lindeman, Alexandra Quint 1 FRAMEWORK The Human in the City of the Future The Challenge of Shaping Future Urban Contexts............................................................. 11 Armin Grunwald 1 The Human and the City in Historical Terms .................................................................. 11 2 Shaping the Urban Future Instead of Predicting It ......................................................... 12 3 Challenges and Pathways to Shaping Urban Futures – Open Questions ..................... 13 4 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................ 14 References ............................................................................................................................ 15 Current Challenges of Sustainable Urban Development ............................... 17 Kerstin Gothe 1 The Context of this Article ................................................................................................. 17 2 Actual Trends with Influence on the Development of Cities ........................................ 18 2.1 The Renaissance of the Urban Lifestyle, or Re-Urbanisation ....................................... 18 2.2 The Decline of Car Traffic, Multimodality .................................................................... 20 3 Thinking about the Role of the “Sharing City” or “Interactive City” .......................... 20 4 Practice of Sharing City-Projects ...................................................................................... 21 5 Discussion of the Sharing City concept in Seoul ............................................................ 23 References ............................................................................................................................ 25 Sustainability Assessment Systems for New and Existing Neighbourhoods ................................................................................................ 27 Thomas Lützkendorf, Maria Balouktsi 1 Starting Points....................................................................................................................... 27 1.1 New and Existing Neighbourhoods as the Object of Assessment – Barriers ................ 28 1.2 Existing Solutions and Experiences in Germany ........................................................... 28 2 The Overall Context ............................................................................................................ 30 3 Review of Sustainability Assessment Systems ............................................................... 32 ii Contents 3.1 Certification Systems and Decision Support Tools – an Overview ............................... 32 3.2 Methodology for the Comparative Analysis .................................................................. 33 3.3 Results of the Comparative Analysis of the Selected Tools and Systems ..................... 34 3.4 Recommendations .......................................................................................................... 39 4 Integration into Overall Concepts and Developments .................................................... 40 References ............................................................................................................................ 41 2 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES “District Future – Urban Lab” A Real Urban Transition Lab............................................................................................. 45 Oliver Parodi, Marius Albiez, Sarah Meyer-Soylu, Colette Waitz 1 An Initial Overview ............................................................................................................. 45 2 The Context: Cities as Necessary Places of Sustainable Development ....................... 46 3 District Future – Urban Lab: Main Characteristics ......................................................... 47 4 Project Objectives ................................................................................................................ 48 5 The Project Area .................................................................................................................. 51 6 District Future as Urban Transition Lab ........................................................................... 53 7 Topics .................................................................................................................................... 57 8 Public Presence .................................................................................................................... 58 9 Resilience and Transformation .......................................................................................... 60 References ............................................................................................................................ 63 Local Citizen Participation in the European Context............................... 67 Albert Geiger 1 “We are they and they are we!” ......................................................................................... 67 2 Processes of Change ............................................................................................................ 68 3 Thematic Links .................................................................................................................... 70 4 European Exchange of Experience ................................................................................... 70 The Sustainable City in Romania From Vision to Reality ...................................................................................................... 73 Ildiko Tulbure 1 The Concept of Sustainable Development and its Operationalisation ......................... 73 2 Urban Sustainability – Methodological Aspects ............................................................. 77 3 The Concept of Decoupling ............................................................................................... 79 4 Sustainable Cities in Romania: Examples ........................................................................ 80 5 Sustainable Development Strategy of the Romanian Region Alba .............................. 81 Contents iii 6 Conclusions .......................................................................................................................... 83 References ............................................................................................................................ 83 Peri-Urban Villages of Bangalore, India Reclaiming the Commons to Cope with Climate Stress and Unsustainable Resource Utilization Systems ............................................................................................ 85 Appakuttan Damodaran, Tanushree Haldar 1 Backdrop .............................................................................................................................. 85 2 Trajectory of the Tragedy of Commons in Recent Years .............................................. 86 3 Adaptation Measures .......................................................................................................... 87 4 Enhancing Adaptation Capabilities in the Village .......................................................... 87 5 The Blueprint for Reclaiming the Commons .................................................................. 88 References ............................................................................................................................ 90 3 OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES Co-housing Abundant Potential for Sustainable Housing and Neighbourhood Development ............. 93 Anja Szypulski 1 Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 93 2 Development of Co-housing Projects in Germany ......................................................... 94 3 Enhanced Qualities of Housing are Required – Co-housing Projects Provide Answers to Current Questions ............................................................................ 95 3.1 Housing Suitable for the Elderly ................................................................................... 96 3.2 Provision of Affordable Housing ..................................................................................