Stakeholder dialogue roadmaps to a healthy urban environment ‘Sustainable City’ project

Lieke Michiels van Kessenich MSc.

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The challenge

Policies promise a more healthy, liveable and energy-neutral living environment, but what is this? More specifically, what spatial consequences can such a policy hold?

Sustainable City project Focus on the local level Three themes: Health and Safety, Liveability, and Energy

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Stakeholder dialogue

Participatory Complexity Governance

Backcasting Beyond today´s trends Second generation backcasting

Policy Arrangements Discourse (substantive) Resources, Rules of the game, Actors (organisational)

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Stakeholders

Policy•Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS)•Ministry of Housing, Spatial planning and the Environment (VROM)•Municipalities of Utrecht and Rotterdam•Public Health Authority of Amsterdam and Rotterdam

NGOs / interest groups•ANBO (ANBO promotes the interests of over-50’s)•Diabetes Fund (Diabetesfonds)•Netherlands Institute for Sport and Physical Activity (NISB)•Netherlands Society for Nature and Environment (Stichting Natuur en Milieu)•Parnassia (Institution for psycho -medical care)

Scientists•Erasmus University Medical Centre (Public Health)•Maastricht University ICIS•NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences •Delft University of Technology•Alterra (research institute for our green living environment)•Health Council of the Netherlands•National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)•Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (Nivel)•Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)

Market parties•DuraVermeer (project development)•Infoplan (consultant)•SOAB – Breda (urban development)

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road maps

theme visions

road maps

Research design

Dialogue

policy options

artist impression

visualise

spatial design

Design

inform

specify

appraisal

Analyse

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Future healthy city

Physical activity Social interaction Flexibility Freedom of choice Diversity Public green space Water No noise and smog Multi modal public transport Facilities and multiple functions

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Future healthy city – an artist impression

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Road-map to 2040

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Conclusion

Creative tension Role of technology Future trends

Health and urban planning Attractive for physical activity Responsibility

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Thank you for your attention!

Some backcasting literature: J. Quist, P. Vergragt, Past and future of backcasting: The shift to stakeholder participation and a

proposal for a methodological framework, Futures 38 (2006) 1027 1045. K.H. Dreborg, Essence of backcasting, Futures 28 (1996) 813 828. J. Robinson, Future subjunctive: backcasting as social learning, Futures 35 (2003) 839 856.

Some websites: Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency www.pbl.nl National Institute for Public Health and the Environment www.rivm.nl/ Research about healty district in Amsterdam www.degezondewijk.nl Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment www.vrom.nl/

Lieke.MichielsvanKessenich@pbl.nl

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Swarm of Bees Streets 2 Meet Moving City Walkable City

Physical activity Walking and cycling

Walking and cycling

Walking and cycling

Walking and cycling

Facilities Mix on a small scale

New use for outdated facilities

Residents define important facilities for neighbourhood

Mix on a small scale

Core facilities in city centre

Mix on a small scale along routes

Functions Intertwined Intertwined In outer circle Intertwined

Modes of transport

Variety of modes Variety of modes Variety of modes

Car-free city centre

Walk and cycle

Variety for longer distances

Institutional aspects

Flexible building rules

City council takes care of all individual wishes

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Social contacts Through slow traffic infrastructure

Through slow traffic infrastructure

- Through slow traffic infrastructure

Health care Special care centralised, daily care local level

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Freedom of choice

- YES - NO

City concept Compact Sprawl Compact -

Health concept Autonomy Well-being Subjective health Physical health

Liveability Dynamic balance Design your own neighbourhood

- Sociability

Energy Climate-neutral buildings

- Clean energy supply, self-supporting

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Figure 7 Four desired images of the future