This is the opening of the second day of the scientific conference: Reinventing the City. Hosted at AMS Institute. The theme of this day of the conference is Integral City.
The challenges we face are big. Really big. Rather than more, and bigger, we should aim for different and better. But where to start? Breaking through the current impasse requires thinking far ahead. Not in search of beautiful, utopian visions, but so that we can reason backwards: what is needed at this moment? Once we do that, it will show that we need to back to basic. To the soil, to the networks and to the citizens whom shape and give meaning to our cities. That way, the contours of a new narrative about our society and the role of our cities will emerge.
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Should we need to take an integral approach in order to Reinvent the City, or not? What will an integral approach exactly solve? Will it not create new silo's? If we take a challenge oriented approach, what would be those challenges? A carbon-neutral city, an inclusive city, a safe city or a circular city? Should we for example decide on a hierarchy of challenges or ambitions and start working on them, or are they all equally important? What does this mean at the city level and what at the project level, and who decides on this? In this panel, Albert Jan Kruiter (Instituut voor Publieke Waarden), Sasha Stolp (City of Amsterdam), Sanda Lenzholzer (WUR) and Pablo van der Lugt (AMS Institute) exchange their insights with us.
In this session, results of the Code the Streets project is shared and a future vision for the project is presented, including how more/other types of values can be implemented in the digital street map. This session touches upon several domains and is therefore relevant and interesting for a broad audience, from behavioural sciences and social sciences, to mobility (management) and experts on digitization. Furthermore, the focus on collaborating between different types of stakeholders will interest governmental, research and business partners. This project is funded by EIT Urban Mobility.
Municipalities have to make choices about making their cities heat-resilient. Also, architects and building managers become more and more aware that they need to take into account the consequences of heat events and increased indoor temperatures. To understand the problems of extreme heat, several temperature maps have been developed for the Netherlands:
1) maps with the perceived temperature during a hot day,
2) maps with the urban heat island effect and
3) maps with the number of warm nights.
The session is divided in different presentations and discussions:
1) Presentation by prof. Jeroen Kluck (Hogeschool van Amsterdam )– Nighttime heat problems: how often and where?
2) Presentation by Remo van Tilburg and Noortje Oosterhoff (Nelen & Schuurmans) – UHI – where in the city
3) Cases – parallel discussions
The video of the workshop can be found here.
Maps showing the perceived temperature during a hot day are useful to point out cool spots and areas with high heat stress that could be designed more heat-resilient. Maps with nighttime temperatures are especially relevant to indicate problems related to indoor climate, health and labor productivity. However, there are quite a few uncertainties in the design and the use of the current map of the number of warm nights that exists for the Netherlands.
First of all, it can be argued if the number of warm nights is the best indicator to understand the problems related to nighttime heat. And if so, could this indicator also be used as a basis for guidelines to reduce problems related to nighttime heat or for formulating heat-resilient ambitions? Or should other climate indicators or maps be used instead? Knowledge about nighttime temperatures and its spatial variation in cities is for instance important to understand if specific urban areas are more vulnerable with respect to nighttime heat and increased indoor temperatures.
Information on nighttime temperatures is also needed to assess the options for natural window ventilation to reduce indoor temperatures, and to understand to what extent the urban heat island effect or the percentage of greenery influences the cooling potential of homes or other buildings in a city. It is likely that the number of warm nights is not the appropriate indicator to examine this.
The desired outcome of this workshop is a description of a map or data on nighttime temperatures to include in the climate impact atlas. Besides, this workshop may also lead to a joint research proposal for making a new nighttime temperature map.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together stakeholders (policymakers, industry, NGO's and scientists) from different backgrounds to discuss how to improve quantity and quality of urban organic waste and how to valorize the collected material in Cities (where Amsterdam is taken as example). The workshop is designed as an interactive dialogue with a short input presentations on the technical, governance and behavioral perspective of urban organic waste.
This workshop was moderated by Willie van den Broek, Joana Wensing and Carlo Verhardt.
The first part of the workshop consisted of pitches from 18 (research) projects. These projects ranged from extracting inks and dyes from used coffee grounds and producing 3D printing material from organic waste to edible insects and researching the political side of organic waste and so on. The aims were to provide an overview of initiatives and research on the subject of organic waste and to give stakeholders the opportunity to connect with each other.
The following people have pitched their project:
The second part of the workshop was an interactive session intended to gain structured insight into the subject. This involved looking at different 'key waste streams' and which types of waste belong in these categories. Subsequently, we looked at the 'key needs' related to the aforementioned 'waste streams' from different perspectives (technology, policy, economy, social, etcetera). Some examples are the process of waste separation, cooperation, start-up funding, information provision/education and infrastructure. Next, a brief brainstorming session was held about 'key solutions' and a follow-up session was planned in which the results of the workshop are summarized and discussed.
This is the collection for 'Multifunctional neighbourhood hubs for liveable cities.' Multifunctional neighbourhood hubs are places residents can access for multiple purposes, created with the goal of less transportation in mind. This session took place during the scientific conference: Reinventing the City. This conference was organised by AMS Institute.
Examples of potential functions are: shared e-mobility, recycling disposal point, do-it-yourself machinery rental, co-working spaces, or social work. Multifunctional hubs that combine logistical, societal and economic functions have hardly ever been studied nor implemented. Questions in this regard are: which functions can be integrated in a hub? How to create added value to private and public organisations and the local community? What business models are suitable? And what are the design and implementation criteria? A variety of potential users of the hub have been identified: citizens, employees, shop-owners, logistics services providers, technical service providers, suppliers of food and/or non-food products, and waste collectors.
This conference session will be practically oriented by discussing two case studies. This is done in collaboration with: 1) Business Association WEST in Groningen and 2) Business Investment Zone Knowledge Mile in Amsterdam.
Speakers: Sjouke van der Vlugt, Susanne Balm and Bram Kin.
This is a collection for the paper presentations of "Exploring new concepts for Urban Mobility". A set of paper presentations consisting out of three parts, conducted during the scientific conference: Reinventing the City at AMS Institute.
The following sessions are included in the presentation:
Speakers: Doreen Korbee, Smart Mobility City of Amsterdam and Suzanne van der Meulen
This is a collection for the paper presentations of "Responsible Urban Digitization". A set of paper presentations consisting out of four parts, conducted during the scientific conference: Reinventing the City at AMS Institute.
These presentations show the diverse way in which the digital impacts the city.
Click on 'more information' for the program and the speakers.
The following presentations are included in this collection:
This is a collection for the paper presentations of "The potential of shared mobility for Cities". A set of paper presentations consisting out of three parts, conducted during the scientific conference: Reinventing the City at AMS Institute.
This is a collection for the paper presentations of "Urban Water Systems". A set of paper presentations consisting out of three parts, conducted during the scientific conference: Reinventing the City at AMS Institute.