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Preliminary congress report: Climate Change and Urban Design The latest advances on this urgent topic, and how it will impact your profession. |
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The Lessons of European Urbanism From 13 to 16 July, over 200 delegates gathered at the Council for European Urbanism’s Third International Congress in Oslo, Norway, to discuss the implications of climate change for urban design and related disciplines. The gathering represented leading government agencies, universities, NGOs and practitioners from every continent except Antarctica.
Agencies and NGOs represented included the European
Environment Agency, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, Norwegian Ministry of the Environment, Wuppertal
Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy,
UN-Habitat, Natural Resources Defense Council, Congress
for the New Urbanism, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,
American Planning Association, National Trust for
Historic Preservation, and governments, universities and
practitioners from 26 countries.
The C.E.U. congress will welcome government
officials, planners, architects, social scientists,
ecologists, developers, local community activists, and
all other development stakeholders who feel a
responsibility to contribute to more sustainable urban
development.  The new opera building in the Oslo harbour, Snøhetta Architects 2008 (Tour 1) 
Neo-classicist social
housing project built by the City of Oslo.
Torshov. 1917-25.
Architects Harald Hals & Adolf Jensen Talberg
(Tour
2)
Leading work will be presented and discussed
from Europe, North America and elsewhere. We will cover an
extremely wide range of topics on mitigation and
adaptation in urban design, spanning science, policy,
education and best practice.
C.E.U. congress will provide you
with important information and knowledge on the latest advances in science,
policy, education and best practice, with a clear sense of
the next steps - both individually and collectively.
C.E.U. CONGRESS DECLARATION
The C.E.U. congress will convene to develop a final declaration on key issues and next steps. The C.E.U. declaration will build on our previous declarations in areas including sustainable urbanism and urbanist education to summarise conclusions conclusions from each of the four sessions, reflecting the latest conclusions and imperatives for action: Science: What we know The C.E.U. declaration will seek to place urban design in the context of wider climate change issues, and the whole-systems approach that will be required to mitigate and adapt to this urgent challenge. Who is the C.E.U. congress for?
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Here is the CONGRESS READER 522 pages - Selected Papers and Excerpts from the Oslo Congress Download as PDF (14MB)
We hope these papers and excerpts will offer useful
links and connections to the growing body of work of
others beyond the conference itself.
________________________________ Climate Change and Science:
What we know What is
the scientific evidence for or against particular
links between urban form and contributions of
greenhouse gases? What are the interrelationships?
What are the pitfalls in research, and in its
application? Papers will survey
previous literature and/or present new research. We
will explore the implications for further inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional
research. Climate Change and Public Policy: What we must do What are the steps being taken to address the contribution of urban design on climate change through public policy, and how well are they succeeding? What steps are being taken to mitigate initial diseconomies, create new incentives, ease regulatory restrictions, and shift market behaviour? What new tools are available - codes, certifications, trading systems, incentives?
Climate Change and Education:
How we will disseminate the skills to do it How
should academic and other institutions respond to the climate
change agenda? How should design schools respond
to the challenge? What alternative curricula are
implied or required? How can curriculum reforms tie
this agenda to wider social and environmental
challenges?
Climate Change and
Best Practice
in Urban Design: How we will implement it What are
the implications of climate change research for new
standards of best practice? What does the evolving
evidence suggest about the relative importance of
such parameters as density, transit modes, mixed use,
building height, social diversity, the relationship to
agricultural lands and wilderness, and others?
What about the relative benefits of retrofit versus
new construction? How can best practice address
issues of market acceptance and consumer choice? We
will examine promising pilot projects from around
the world, and evaluate their successes, weaknesses,
and next steps in research and development.
 Oslo City Hall 1920-1950, architects Arnstein Arneberg & Magnus Poulsson. (Tour 1)
The Nobel Peace Centre, former
train station
1872, architect Georg Andreas
Bull. (Tour 1)
Images from Oslo,
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Sponsoring
Some of the participating NGO's IPPC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
EEA-
European Environmental Agency
CNU -
Congress for INTBAU
Wuppertal Institute Duchy of Cornwall, UK
Leibniz Institute American Planning Association,
The
Princes
Netherlands Institute Academy of Urbanism, UK Urban Renaissance Institute, UK Urban Land Institute
National
Resources Defense
Council, US Oslo Byes Vel
University
Technical
University Columbia University
Royal
Institute of Technology, Timisoara University, Romania
Universidad
University
University
of University of Illinois
University
IUAV
Universidad
University of Porto University of Sumatra University of Sydney
Victoria
University Virginia Polytechnic Institute University of Miami University of Notre Dame, US University of Oregon University of Havana
Riksantikvaren - City of Oslo
London
Borough
City of
Modesto,
City of
Tshware, City of Gerbsen, Germany
City of
Sundern, Germany City of Santa Fe
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