Authors: Maged Elsamny and Gerben Mol
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RED&BLUE
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Report Workshop RED&BLUE: Amsterdam
The past few decades have witnessed several economic, social, and climatic events that led to major shifts in trends of real estate development in cities. Until the first decade of the century, real estate agents would draw an image of a specific person as the target group for their real estate products. However, the financial crisis in 2008-2009 pushed them to re-profile these unified models into a collection of clients who might not share the same age, financial status, or even business models rather the neighborhood. Meanwhile, urban planners shifted to diversifying the internal city and promoting the mixed-use of buildings to overcome the shortage of spaces, reduce transport costs, and create more social interaction between different social segments. At the same time, the pace of climate change kept increasing, and the resulting damages are threatening the existence of cities. Amsterdam is not far from these major developments, with many of its areas densely populated and below the sea level, the climate change poses high risk on the vitality of the city.
In a workshop that brought the Red&Blue partners together, we attempted to co-create a research pathway with all partners. This is through prioritizing the research questions and selecting specific areas in Amsterdam together to work on during the coming years. This workshop was preluded by 24 bilateral meetings with the consortium participants to understand their motivation, aspiration in this project, and define urban use cases in Amsterdam. A list of criteria and five different areas in Amsterdam emerged from these meetings which served as basis for the discussion during the workshop. -
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RED&BLUE
Climate change brings new risks for real estate and infrastructure, such as rising sea levels, extreme rain, and drought. Especially lower lying urban areas around the world, like the Netherlands, are affected by the impacts of climate change.
To make urban areas climate resilient and adaptive, transdisciplinary knowledge is urgently needed. This project brings together stakeholders from different disciplines – research institutes, public and private organizations – to conduct risk assessments and develop integrative climate adaptation strategies for the built environment in lower lying urban areas. In the next five years, researchers from AMS Institute will contribute to the co-development of integrative urban climate finance and governance strategies for resilient Dutch Delta Cities. Along the way, efforts will be made to develop innovative concepts and strategies to cope with rising water.
In Amsterdam a living lab was developed to investigate a number of areas in the city. City officials are especially keen on acquiring practical knowledge of the financial and governance aspects of creating climate resilient, future-proof infrastructure. 2022 marked the official start of the project and centered around detailing the work plan with respect to both the urban case selection and the proper research questions to be addressed by the researchers.
Program developer
Dr. Gerben Mol.
Principal Investigator
Prof.dr. Ellen van Bueren (TU Delft).
Partners
Delft University of Technology, VU Amsterdam, Wageningen University & Research, Maastricht University, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht University, Deltares, AMS Institute, Vereniging Delta Metropool, Arcadis, APG, Bouwinvest, PGGM, Cushman & Wakefield, Waternet AGV, Municipality of Amsterdam, Municipality of Rotterdam, Municipality of Dordrecht, Province Noord-Holland, Vesteda, Verbond van Verzekeraars, Sustainable Finance Lab, Stichting Kennis Gebiedsontwikkeling, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (I&W), National Delta Programme, Province Zuid-Holland, and Urban Land Institute
Duration
5 years.
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Sustained building in low-lying areas or not?
The Living Labs Greater Rotterdam and Greater Amsterdam are the real life urban laboratories and test beds of the RED&BLUE transdisciplinary knowledge agenda and impact program. The RED&BLUE research program focusses on the development of integrated real estate and infrastructure climate risk strategies for urban Deltas. The living labs are crucial for identifying the urban climate challenges, translating these challenges into applied and scientific research questions, demonstrating and validating the research results in practice, and finally in consolidating the findings into integrated climate adaptation strategies and ensuring their long-lasting implementation.These ambitious objectives can only be reached in co-creation and joined learning with the stakeholders involved and require a good understanding of the context of the urban climate challenges. This context was explored through focus group research with the purpose to identify the key questions underling each of the urban cases to be identified.
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Authors
- M. van den Boomen
- A. Esteban
- M. Elsamny
- V. Konings
- D. Huibers
- G. Mol
- S. Stolp
- K. Spaan
- E. van Bueren
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Real Estate Development and Building in Low Urban Environments (RED&BLUE Project)
In these slides, you will find more information about the RED&BLUE project. This project centers around the climate-adaptability in lower areas like the Netherlands, and how they deal with the rising sea level due to climate change.