Urban Challenges, Resilient Solutions Design Thinking for the Future of Urban Regions

"A cooperation between trancityxvaliz and the Future Urban Regions lectorate."

Includes bibliographical references.

The strength of design / Henk Ovink -- Introduction : Anthropocene ; What's the what? ; How? ; Who? ; Critical notes -- The team -- Part I. What : Flows as a new dimension ; The physical metabolism map ; Social metabolism and the doughnut ; Resilient infrastructure ; Renewable energy ; Material cycle ; Vital economy ; Healthy living ; Sociocultural connectivity ; Practical examples and design proposals : Smart city 3.0, Copenhagen ; Inner city becomes delta ; Saline culture for the polder ; Klimakommune, Saerbeck ; COb2s footprint as a kick-starter ; Duckweed on empty lots ; Urban farming, The Hague ; Problem neighbourhood goes eco ; New earning model for the Rotterdam sewer ; Office towers purify water ; Inhabited industrial area, Barcelona ; Woodland gets its own underground stop ; Algae printer in peatland area ; A place to play, Enschede -- Post-war reconstruction district for people and animals ; Car-free workers' district ; Baugruppe, Berlin ; Raw materials bank in miner's colony ; German students cross the border -- Part II. How : Wicked problems and the art of design thinking ; The C3 cube ; The DTP diagram ; The ICCI model ; Practical examples and design proposals : Rebuild by Design, New York ; Algae procution in canal ; Fresh water for saline polder ; "What if'-scenarios, Leiden ; Canal becomes water battery ; Redevolopment of parking places ; Energy bridges a gap ; Blue economy, Rotterdam ; Raw materials square in poor part of town ; Slaughterhouse near food cluster ; High streets, London ; Biobased furniture factory ; Agricultural hotspot ; Serious game, Oosterwold ; Olympic rowing course in river bed ; Fast cycle route: The Last Mile ; High Line, New York ; Parkstad connects -- Part III. Who : Coalition building ; An alliance on the North Sea ; Alternative area development ; A metabolic square ; Reflection ; Practical examples and design proposals : Natuurderij ; Cycling commuters ; Densification around the slow lane ; Energy workplace, Friesland ; Regional eco-station ; Mixed farming new-style ; Do-it-yourself, Liverpool ; Industrial area gets polderbank and own currency ; Renewable city ; Industrial curator, Arnhem ; Public waterfronts ; Iconic industrial road ; Biodiverse city, Eindhoven ; Pioneering sports factories ; The elderly take to the streets ; Broedstraten, Amsterdam ; Cluttered modernism ; Upscaled pop-ups -- Conclusions : A design can also be a question ; What and where ; Working with models ; Beyond institutionalization ; In conclusion -- Appendices : I. The 18 design ateliers : Eindhoven 2050 ; Water works ; Eindhoven: the mobility challenge ; The energy transition in the Groningen region ; The energy transition and healthy ageing ; Energy: transition and transformation 2016 ; Food hub Spaanse Polder ; De grondstoffenfabrick (The raw materials factory) ; Afval als bron (Waste as a source) ; De lavensloopbestendige stad (The age-proof city) ; Zaans next economy ; South West works! ; De ecologische stad (The ecological city) ; Sport en beweging in de openbare ruimte (Sports and exercise in public space) ; Sport en bewegen II (Sports and exercise II) ; Ontwerplab Vrieheide (Design Lab Vrieheide) ; Verbonden in Parkstad ; Connected in Parkstad) ; Parkstad verbindt (Parkstad connects) -- II. Overview of practical examples and positioning C3 cube.

The future of humanity is urban. We are facing major problems such as climate change, social inequality, large-scale migration, and resource depletion. Cities (and those who make the city) play an important role in addressing these problems. Human activity is part of a global transition, a permanent metabolism of raw materials, water, energy, food, biomass etc. The linear approach of isolating problems and then unraveling them into bite-sized issues that you can solve, no longer works. The tools that designers have at their disposal are undeveloped. This text offers designers, their commissioners and (local) governments new models and ideas to deal with healthy urban development.