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UrbanA is a a 3-year project investigating Sustainable and Just Cities, it is building an urban systems community of practice and uses a knowledge commons to assist the eco-social just transition needed to respond to Climate Breakdown.
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- #Just Cities
- #Sustainable Cities
- #Community of Practice
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Greening the city and connecting communities @ Barcelona (2010)
Greening the city, connecting communities
Develop more bikeways/ walkways to easily connect from within city centre to nature: rivers, sea, surrounding hills. Allow all abandoned spaces to become indefinite temporary gardens. Specify strategic zones as permanent community gardens, including within all existing public parks and schools. Connect these nodes by greenways. Turn greenways into CPULS (Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes), Plant fruit and nut trees, berry hedges, diverse vegetation, food. These bio threads allow nature into the city; butterflies, song birds, pollen. Use city roofspace(s) as one vast CPUL, solar energy harvest, water collection zone and new Public Park. As private car use diminishes turn old “car lanes” into “food lanes”. Create mixed use clusters around gardens, part of the urban fabric: play area, sport complex, café. Make spaces experimental, adaptable and open to everyone. Let all life adapt and grow.