Water sensitive Cities in a Danish context - the next steps

Water sensitive Cities in a Danish context

- the next steps

Center for Design, Innovation and

Sustainable Transitions [www.cdist.dk]

The need for new competences:

Urban Planning and Management, Sustainable Cities Techno-antroplogy, Sustainable Design

“The complexity and challenges of sustainable development call for new understandings of the socio-technical and economic dynamics

Water in cities?

Water in Danish Cities?

Which urban water futures?

Our urban future

Foto: UN

Transition governance ?

(foto: Henrik Montgomery/SCANPIX)

And citites are …

• small as well as BIG

• part of something BIGGER

– the urban and the rual are closely related

Urban visions and trends

- Liveabilty - Biophily - Resilience

Water in Danish Cities?

- Urban water transitons

The next steps!

- 4 important steps

Visions and trends

on-going narratives…

Green urbanism

Biophilic cities

Sustainable cities

Liveable

cities

Creative cities

Adaptive cities

Transition towns

Growth engine

COPENHAGEN HAS A VISION

We want to be the worlds best city to live in

A sustainable city with urban spaces, which invites

to a multiple and unique urban life

We want to be a metropolis for people

[Københavns Kommune 2009]

Anebjerg

the overall goal is an urban quality based development

- characterised by health, sustainability, nature experiences, and environmental protection.

Not just

also

Biophilic city – mixing

people, animals and plants

The role of plants and animals in the city

Integrating large and small green and blue infrastructures

- More and more diversified

nature

- Corridors and space for a

range of different animals

- A healthier environment

- Interesting experiences

- More friendly people ;-)

Recilient cities with adaptive capacity

The capacity to handle change and reorganise

… and taking challenges as potentials for development and gains

• Developing more flexible, diversified

infrastructures

• Enabling different knowledge and

learning to come into play

Foto: www.cityoflakeport.com

Urban visions and trends

- Liveabilty - Biophily - Resilience

Water in Danish Cities?

- Urban water transitons

The next steps!

- 4 important steps

Urban water transitions?

Water – technology – society

Water supply

city Sewered _city Drained _city Water ways city Water cycle _city Water sensitive _city

Brown, Keath and Wong (2009). Water Science & Technology 59 (5), 847-855

Water supply & sewered cities

Water systems part of modernity:

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Effective provision – safe and secure

•

‘Invisible’ disposal of waste water

•

New technologies & urban networks

•

Regulation and organisations

Drivers:

- Health and hygiene

- Science, Engineers

- Progress and growth

Foto: Arbejderbevægelsens Bibliotek og Arkiv Foto: KE/Hofor

Our drained city

- Post war (1864) + Post war boom (1945): the family dream of house, garden and car - New technologies and push of urban hydrology – to take the storm water of the city

- Nature views – rational vs. romantic

- New challenges because of climate changes … and urban renewing

Foto: Kulturjagt i Køge Bugt

Drainage and control of water – farming, rivers, coats, urban sprawl

New standards and regulation of housing and roads

Urban water transitions?

Water – technology – society

Water supply

city Sewered _city Drained _city Water ways city Water cycle _city Water sensitive _city

Brown, Keath and Wong (2009). Water Science & Technology 59 (5), 847-855

Water ways city

• Challenging the progression of the service delivery that have led

to over extraction and pollution

• Working with the ways of water

Denmark - Ecological Modernisation

• Regulation and new technologies – e,g. waste water cleaning, • Water becoming included in planning as a recreational value • New professional disciplines

e.g. environmental engineers

Foto: Ringkøbing – Skjern Kommune Foto: Åben åen

Water Cycle city

• Response to water resource challenges and environmental problems • Focusing on the water cycles – and nutrients – at different scales • Saving, keeping and using different water qualities

Denmark:

- Wand plans …

- Water savings – and water balances - Urban gardening …

Examples?

Water sensitive city

• Environmental protection and repair • Supply security and flood control

• Health, recreation values, liveability, economic sustainability

Taking water as a resource Being part of the nature

Technologies, infrastructure and urban form would be diverse and flexible … designed to reinforce sustainable practises and social capital … And be adaptive and continunally evolving …

St

at

us

• Climate adaption on the agenda among water professionals … • New networks and courses …

• A growing number of projects:

– Separation of storm water – Local handling of storm water

– Greening and visible water elements

• Urban scale – Ørestad, Skt. Kjelds, Greve, Middelfart … • Municipal climate adaptation plans with risk maps … • Plans and visions being developed …

… we are ready to go further …

The next steps

Up scaling

From projects to larger scales:

Working with grey, green, and blue structures

:

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At urban level

•

Across city and landscape

Water as a ressource

From water as a problem to be controlled to

Working with water

•

Water cycles

•

Seasonal changes

•

Supporting nature

•

Water qualities for health

Integrative approaches

From a discipline for water professionals to

Working with more perspectives and disciplines

- Water in urban development

- integration in other spheres: e.g. urban life,

health, social, culture, learning

- Inviting these disciplines in to climate change

- Collaborating with citizens and users

Strategic planning

From infrastructure to

Strategic urban planning

•

Water in cities

•

Water as a major perspective

•

Integrations in other plans

Workshop invitation?

Hvordan vil vi arbejde med water sensitive, liveable cities i Danmark? På dansk?

Hvilke erfaringer har vi? Hvilke udfordringer?

Hvordan kommer vi videre? Invitation sendes ud.

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