Session  3:  Imperatives:  Urban  SustainabilityMike  Lepech,  Associate  Professor,  CEE,  Stanford  University

Digital  Cities  Summit  — October  3-­4,  2016  

Imperatives:  Urban  Sustainability

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International Institute for Environment and Development (2016), Slide Adapted from Mokrian and Lyons (2016)

Proliferation  of  Planning  Tools  and  Metrics

Images from USGBC, EcoDistricts, Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure, Lighting Catalog Blog

Are  current  metrics  and  tools  effective?

“Although   planning   and  evaluation   should   be  two   inseparable   concepts,   there   is  currently,  as  indeed   three  decades   ago  when  Lichfield,   Kettle,   and  Whitbread  (1975)   raised   this  question,   a  deficient   integration   of  evaluation   in  the   [urban]  planning   process.”   -­ Oliveira  and  Pinho   (2010)

Scheuer and Keoleian (2002), NBI (2008), Olivera and Pinho (2010)

Panelist  Questions

1.  What  is  urban  sustainability   and  resiliency  and  how is  it  different   from  existing measurements?

2.  How  will  digital   technologies improve,  retard,   or  change  sustainability?

3.  What  are  some  early  examples leveraging  distrusted  infrastructure and  big  data  for  sustainable  cities?

4.  What  is  mobility   and  what  role  does it  have  for  sustainability   and/or  resiliency?

ReferencesInternational   Institute   for  Environment   and  Development   (2016)   Reading   National   Signatures   in  the  Urbanization-­Income   Space.  http://http://www.iied.org/urbanisation-­income-­data

Oliveira,   V.,  Pinho,   P.  (2010)   Evaluation   in  urban   planning:   Advances  and  prospects.  Journal   of  Planning   Literature   24(4):  343-­361.

Ramsar  COP11  Scientific   and  Technical   Review  Panel   (2012)  Background   and  Context   to  the  Development   of  Principles   and  Guidance   for  the  Planning   Management   of  Urban  and  Peri-­Urban  Wetlands.    Bucharest,   Romania:   Ramsar  COP11

Scheuer,   C.,  Keoleian,   G.  (2002)   Evaluation   of  LEED  using   life  cycle  assessment  methods.  National   Institute   of  Standards   and  Technology   (NIST),  US  Department   of  Commerce.

Turner,   C.,  Frankel,   M.  (2008).   Energy  performance   of  LEED  for  new  construction   buildings.  New  Buildings   Institute   (NBI).

United   Nations  Human   Settlements   Programme.   (2011)   Hot  Cities:  Battle-­Group   for  Climate  Change.    Nairobi,   Kenya:  UN  Habitat.   http://unhabitat.org/wp-­content/uploads/2012/06/P1HotCities.pdf