Towards regenerative neighbourhoods: An international survey on urban strategies promoting the production of ecosystem services

Blanco, Eduardo; Raskin, Kalina; Clergeau, Philippe

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2022.103784

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“…The least frequently used significant word to describe scale was 'neighborhood', but it was consistently used across the full dataset. This aligns with the literature observations about the neighborhood scale being the 'fundamental urban design unit' [41]. Both Subsets 2 and 3 contained the same top four significant words: regenerative, urban, sustainable, and ecological.…”

Section: Quality Assessment Of Selected Articlessupporting

confidence: 84%

“…Certification tools, such as LBC, SITES, and EcoQuartier, follow the precedent of early sustainability rating tools, where environmental performance measures are categorized and listed. To some extent, this approach continues to focus on clarifying the role of human pressures upon the environment in a compartmentalized fashion rather than the prospects for restoring and regenerating whole systems [41]. While the performance measures used by these tools aim for net zero or net positive outcomes, there is still the potential to revert to a reductionist approach, dealing with parts of the system rather than the whole [103].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Nature-based and inspired strategies are seen as fundamental to achieving the UN-SDGs, facilitating built environment solutions to positively contribute to local ecosystem services [32,46]. However, addressing individual goals often results in initiatives focused on discrete solutions for individual elements such as energy, water, or vegetation, foregoing the holistic solutions that consider synergies among the elements [41]. This tendency toward reductionism extends from a mechanistic worldview, which emphasizes economic growth, failing to recognize planetary boundaries [43] (p. 83), and promotes human needs above those of the biophysical environment [27] (p. 40).…”

Section: Regenerative Design-in Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Integrating Ecological Knowledge into Regenerative Design: A Rapid Practice Review

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Sustainability

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While sustainable design practice is working to reduce the ecological impacts of development, many of the earth’s already damaged life support systems require repair and regeneration. Regenerative design theory embraces this challenge using an ecological worldview that recognizes all life as intertwined and interdependent to deliver restorative outcomes that heal. Central to regenerative design theory is the mutually beneficial and coevolving ‘stewardship’ relationship between community and place, the success of which requires local ecological knowledge. However, there is a lack of understanding about how—within the design process—practitioners are integrating ‘innate knowledge’ of place held by local people. This rapid practice review sought to collate and evaluate current ‘regenerative design practice’ methods towards ensuring good practice in the integration of place-based ecological knowledge. A comprehensive online search retrieved 345 related articles from the grey literature, academic book chapters, and government reports, from which 83 articles were analyzed. The authors conclude that regenerative design practice is emergent, with the design practice of including community knowledge of ecological systems of place remaining ad hoc, highly variable, and champion-based. The findings have immediate implications for regenerative design practitioners, researchers, and developers, documenting the state of progress in methods that explore innate ecological knowledge and foster co-evolving ecological stewardship.

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“…The approach of improving environmental outcomes beyond mere sustainability (i.e. doing less bad to not cause further harm) by allowing in ltration of natural forces, such as utilizing solar irradiation for solar heat gains or wind for natural ventilation, rather than insulation and protection from them, has been described as one of the characteristics of so-called regenerative building design [24][25][26]. While several extensive analyses and reviews of low-tech buildings in the European context have been published [27], a research gap persists regarding the life cycle related environmental impacts of such concepts.…”

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Low-tech passive solar design concepts and bio-based material solutions for reducing life cycle GHG emissions of buildings – Life cycle assessment of regenerative design strategies (2/2)

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Trigaux

Allacker

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Energy and Buildings

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“…Neighbourhoods do matter for neighbourhood satisfaction (Neal, 2021). Urban regeneration projects help to address a pathway for sustainable neighbourhood (Blanco, Raskin and Clergeau, 2022). As a means for urban policy (Griffiths, 1995), urban regeneration projects help drive urban change and development, improving economic and social conditions of urban spaces (Roberts and Sykes, 2000).…”

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Advancing urban regeneration projects for sustainable development and intellectual capital

Romanelli

Ferrara

Metallo

et al. 2022

ECKM

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The study aims to investigate how urban regeneration projects contribute to achieving sustainable development through an intellectual capital (IC) perspective for driving growth within urban communities and improving quality of life. Literature has shown that urban regeneration projects help support urban change. The IC helps drive sustainable development and competitiveness of regions, cities and communities. Urban regeneration projects contribute to better quality of life and drive social and economic renewal of urban communities. This exploratory study proposes a research framework addressed to join urban regeneration projects with IC view on cities and urban communities. This paper can contribute to the extant literature focused on the relationship between urban regeneration processes and the role of intellectual capital as driver of sustainable development. This qualitative study, using a multiple case study methodology, provides a comparative analysis of two urban regeneration projects that help the redevelopment of urban environments and support human and social capital within communities. The findings show that urban regeneration projects significantly contribute to revitalising urban spaces, supporting the components of IC that drive social and economic growth of communities.

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Towards regenerative neighbourhoods: An international survey on urban strategies promoting the production of ecosystem services

Cited by 22 publications

References 40 publications

Integrating Ecological Knowledge into Regenerative Design: A Rapid Practice Review

Integrating Ecological Knowledge into Regenerative Design: A Rapid Practice Review

Low-tech passive solar design concepts and bio-based material solutions for reducing life cycle GHG emissions of buildings – Life cycle assessment of regenerative design strategies (2/2)

Advancing urban regeneration projects for sustainable development and intellectual capital

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