UP2030 Urban planning and design ready for 2030
UP2030 is a Horizon Europe project that aims to support cities in driving the socio-technical transitions required to meet their climate neutrality targets by leveraging urban planning and design. Within the project city stakeholders and local authorities will be supported and guided to put neutrality on the map of their communities in day-to-day actions and strategic decisions. An innovative methodology (5UP-approach) will be developed and applied through the co-development and implementation of science-based – yet practical – tools, and methods.
Inclusive participation is key throughout the project’s full cycle of activities so that real needs of communities are reflected in the city-specific visions, and co-designed interventions maximise delivery of co-benefits. As such, UP2030 will have a measured positive impact on spatial justice in the pilots, and give the opportunity to citizens to participate in the transition by becoming agents of change themselves through their sustainable behavioural shifts.
TU Delft is a Work Package leader in charge of creating a Spatial Justice framework and benchmarking of urban carbon neutrality strategies. Download the Press Release explains the project HERE. Roberto Rocco, Juliana Gonçalves, Marcin Dabrowski and Hugo Lopez are actively involved in WP3 and contribute to various aspects of the project.
Inclusive participation is key throughout the project’s full cycle of activities so that real needs of communities are reflected in the city-specific visions, and co-designed interventions maximise delivery of co-benefits. As such, UP2030 will have a measured positive impact on spatial justice in the pilots, and give the opportunity to citizens to participate in the transition by becoming agents of change themselves through their sustainable behavioural shifts.
— UP2030 in a glance.
UP2030 looks at mainstreaming the climate neutrality agenda using urban planning and design as a vehicle for also enhancing the liveability of urban communities. The emphasis on liveability will connect the urban planning and design approaches to the provision of multiple socio-environmental benefits, foremost at a neighbourhood scale. Prototyping is strategically focused on neighbourhoods, as they offer a critical scale for problem-solving, reinvestment, and climate innovation in cities. Testing at this scale will provide valuable lessons for city-wide upscale.
— UP2030 in a glance.
INSURGENT PLANNING PRACTICE
Edited by Roberto Rocco & Gabriel Silvestre
This book investigates insurgent planning practices, and their potential for alternative forms of civic engagement and democracy-building. It features planners ‘pushing the envelope’ and challenging technocratic planning, ‘respond[ing] to neoliberal specifics of dominance through inclusion’ (Miraftab 2009, 32), by incorporating notions of participation, inclusion, transectionality and the right to the city into their daily practices.
Its 11 chapters written by contributors from diverse socio-political realities delve into those daily practices to answer the questions: What does insurgent planning practice look like in practice? How are radical planners coping with traditional, technocratic planning as practised in most places around the world? And what do they do to advance an agenda of democratisation and the right to the city, counteracting neoliberal forms of governance?
Active civic participation and stakeholder engagement have opened endless possibilities in city-making in the last decades. This promising turn in city planning and design is connected to communication and communicative rationality. The pivotal role of communication in solving the ‘tragedy of the commons’ (Ostrom, 2015) has come to underscore the importance of the ‘communicative turn’ in spatial planning and its ability to distribute the benefits and burdens of development. Most importantly, the ’communicative turn’ has provided opportunities to realize the democratic project through active civic participation in the pursuit of the right to the city.
— Book project.
This book addresses the most pressing challenge facing spatial planning today, i.e. to become a tool for democracy building and continuous civic education and participation for the right to the city. We base our ideas on the writings of Patsy Healey, for whom communicative planning goes beyond old paradigms of technocratic planning based on the knowledge of experts
— Book project.