Towards circular cities—Conceptualizing core aspects

Paiho, Satu; Maki, E. R.; Wessberg, Nina; Paavola, Martta; Tuominen, Pekka; Antikainen, Maria; Heikkilä, Jouko; Rozado, Carmen Antuña; Jung, Nusrat

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2020.102143

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“…Their study focuses on geographically and administratively-bound cities' units, while the city has several other dimensions and characteristics. Paiho et al [56] extend the concept of a circular city focusing on resource flows and how it could be closed, slowed and narrowed down. In their definition the circular city "is based on closing, slowing and narrowing the resource loops as far as possible after the potential for conservation, efficiency improvements, resource sharing, servitization and virtualization has been exhausted, with remaining needs for fresh material and energy being covered as far as possible based on local production using renewable natural resources".…”

Section: Circular Economy Implementation In Citiesmentioning

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“…Rapid urbanization and growth of cities outside the city's administrative boundaries links cities closely to surrounding regions, meaning city's UM analysis should be expanded outside geographic territorial of the city itself. Especially when city streams (material and energy flows, transport) cross the city's borders [56]. Scientist mostly focus on traditional and most visible physical (material and energy) flows that could be easily monitored and evaluated using local data [56,99,100].…”

Section: Concept Of Circular Urban Metabolismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Especially when city streams (material and energy flows, transport) cross the city's borders [56]. Scientist mostly focus on traditional and most visible physical (material and energy) flows that could be easily monitored and evaluated using local data [56,99,100]. However, other non-material flows, coexist and circulate inside and outside city.…”

Section: Concept Of Circular Urban Metabolismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Seeking Circularity: Circular Urban Metabolism in the Context of Industrial Symbiosis

Feiferytė-Skirienė

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Cities are leading in the implementation of circular economy (CE) principles and sustainable development due to the concentration of knowledge, resources and technology while remaining the highest consumers and producers of resources. CE, urban metabolism (UM) and industrial symbiosis (IS) offer a new more holistic approach based on material and energy flow analysis and materials recovery from waste by creating IS networks to support a new circular urban system (CUM) which contrast to the traditional linear extract-produce-use-dispose model of economic systems. In this paper, we present the concepts of CE, IS and CUM and how the new framework could improve cities transition to sustainability and CE, with detailed CE and IS indicators analysis. We introduce the relations between IS, CE and UM concepts, how they can be used and monitored in the CUM framework. CUM can help unite urban planners, the city’s governance and the business sector to promote collaboration across the city to improve future sustainability and circularity by closing loops.

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Section: Circular Economy Implementation In Citiesmentioning

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Section: Concept Of Circular Urban Metabolismmentioning

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Seeking Circularity: Circular Urban Metabolism in the Context of Industrial Symbiosis

Feiferytė-Skirienė

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2021

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“…When building components are used over multiple life cycles in multiple buildings, allocation of environmental impacts is debated. Paiho et al (2020) describe the challenges and enablers of a circular economy in cities (food, buildings, mobility, nature) and concludes that indicators are needed to show the progress of a transition towards 'circular' cities. Such indicators inherently contribute to defining what makes a city sustainable (Petit-Boix et al, 2017) and should integrate existing sustainability rating systems (Huang et al, 2015) or goal-oriented assessment frameworks (Cohen, 2017).…”

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Comparison of environmental assessment methods when reusing building components: A case study

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Fivet

2020

Sustainable Cities and Society

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“…As a response to the current social and environmental issues, principles of circular economies are advocated, conceptualizing applications for cities [91][92][93][94] as in transitioning to a circular economy the role of the built, and particularly the urban environment, is crucial [93]. Core aspects include issues of energy, recycling resources, but at a local level, the key strategy promoted is waste management [95,96].…”

Section: Literature Review 21 Revitalization Of Small Towns and Thementioning

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Revitalization of Public Spaces in Cittaslow Towns: Recent Urban Redevelopment in Central Europe

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Revitalization of cities varies depending on the scale of a city, type of challenges, and the socio-environmental context in each case. While revitalization projects carried out in globally known cities are well described, there is still a gap in characterizing revitalization processes that aim to improve quality of life in smaller units like medium-sized towns. This paper fills this gap by the insight from 82 revitalization projects implemented in 14 towns of Warmia and Mazury region (Poland) which are associated in the Cittaslow movement. The study combines a quantitative assessment of statistical data describing these projects with their qualitative evaluation based on interviews with local experts. The results of conducted analyses show that socio-economic development plays a major role as, despite projects which directly refer to the social domain, social elements were found also in projects initially categorized as those targeted to architectural and spatial domains. On the other hand, the authors observed that environmental and ecological as well as cultural issues are treated unevenly or marginally in projects compared to social ones. Interviews with experts show that the least importance was assigned to cultural and historical domain. The obtained results might constitute important knowledge to understand the background of current revitalization processes outside of global metropolises to improve future mechanisms supporting urban renewal.

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Towards circular cities—Conceptualizing core aspects

Cited by 119 publications

References 55 publications

Seeking Circularity: Circular Urban Metabolism in the Context of Industrial Symbiosis

Seeking Circularity: Circular Urban Metabolism in the Context of Industrial Symbiosis

Comparison of environmental assessment methods when reusing building components: A case study

Revitalization of Public Spaces in Cittaslow Towns: Recent Urban Redevelopment in Central Europe

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