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姓名 王龙 学号 6218000029

学院 建筑学院 导师 PAOLO VINCENZO GENOVESE

2018-2019-1学期

讲座主题 Territorial Development, Urban Policies

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讲座地点 Online 讲座时间 Nov 30, 0002 12:26:39 AM

2018-2019-2学期

讲座主题 Leonardo Da Vinci

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讲座地点 6th floor , architecture hall, school of architecture 讲座时间 Apr 19, 2019 1:35:27 PM

2019-2020-1学期

讲座主题 How to plan and design a (Climate, COVID) “proof” urban dimension?
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讲座地点 Online 讲座时间 May 6, 2020 6:33:26 PM

2019-2020-2学期

讲座主题 Towards Achieving Sustainable Development Goals-Sustainable Solutions for Cities

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讲座地点 Online Platform ( ZOOM ) 讲座时间 Aug 7, 2020 2:30:00 PM

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讲座主题 How to plan and design a (Climate, COVID) “proof” urban dimension?
The discussion was about how we can plan the city during and after the pandemic. It was focused on
the idea how Italy is fighting the virus in its territory and how it will impact the future scenarios, as we
need to get adapted with this new life style. Smart City, identified six main concern developed with
Vienna. It is not just ICT but also linked with mobility. Smart city is linked with smart governance. Six
main dimension smart economy, smart mobility, smart environment is more physical, then smart people
smart living and smart governance are more human dimensions. The physical part is more easy to
construct but the main backbone of the smart development is the human dimensions. When the people,
and governance is smart it becomes the way of life and it will be real smart city. If we invest in more
human dimensions then increase the quality of life, it will create human resources who will live a good
life. The opportunity to access to different components for quality of life is also very important.
Another important aspect is participation. It is the very vital factor for the development of human
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dimension. Another aspect is the smarter use of natural resources.

If these kind of pandemic touched the slum areas, then it will create a havoc. As the hygienic habit will
not be properly exercised. So we need to think more about the urban design in these areas. So more
social and infrastructure dimensions.
Human dimensions are in problem due to this pandemic. Because we won’t be able to gather and meet
people and relatives. So we need to rethink about our places and open spaces. Built environment with
open spaces is the best way to create more safe environment. This will make people more comfortable,
as they can meet in open space. If there is open space, then we can meet people outside. We should
consider and focus on our open space and also in our mobility. We can also consider on the
construction materials.
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The discussion was useful to understand the different dimensions for the development. Sustainable and
smart development has various dimensions, out of which human dimensions are the important. These
helps to create smarter and more flexible city. Another aspect is the urban design in terms of open
space. The importance of open space and the making the proper plan which will help the mobility of
people. The plan for public transportation and its schedule will help create more comfortable
environment for the people. This will not only be useful during the pandemic but also to increase the
quality of living of the people in the area. So, the planning of open space is very important. It will help
development of human dimensions, which is more important for the overall development of a city.
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讲座主题 Leonardo Da Vinci

The main content of the lecture was to know different aspect of Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo, he was an Italian polymath of
the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics,
engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father
of paleontology, ichnology, and architecture, and he is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Leonardo is renowned
primarily as a painter but he was also architect, inventor and students of all scientific things. Da Vinci was also a visionary whose
designs and inspiration (as well as some of his technological innovations) followed him 500 years into a future he would never live to
see. He has gifted the world with a glimpse into his imagination and inspires us to create even today. If he was not born during that era
he wouldn’t have been the same, so it means environment is everything. Environment influence everything and it defines who you are.
Da Vinci’s parents weren’t married, and his mother, Caterina, a peasant, wed another man while da Vinci was very young and began a
new family. Beginning around age 5, he lived on the estate in Vinci that belonged to the family of his father, Ser Peiro, an attorney and
notary. Da Vinci’s uncle, who had a particular appreciation for nature that da Vinci grew to share, also helped raise him. Da Vinci
received no formal education beyond basic reading, writing and math, but his father appreciated his artistic talent and apprenticed him
at around age 15 to the noted sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio, of Florence. For about a decade, da Vinci refined his painting
and sculpting techniques and trained in mechanical arts. When he was 20, in 1472, the painters’ guild of Florence offered da Vinci
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membership, but he remained with Verrocchio until he became an independent master in 1478. Around 1482, he began to paint his first
commissioned work, The Adoration of the Magi, for Florence’s San Donato, a Scopeto monastery. However, da Vinci never completed
that piece, because shortly thereafter he relocated to Milan to work for the ruling Sforza clan, serving as an engineer, painter, architect,
designer of court festivals and, most notably, a sculptor. The family asked da Vinci to create a magnificent 16-foot-tall equestrian statue,
in bronze, to honor dynasty founder Francesco Sforza. Da Vinci worked on the project on and off for 12 years, and in 1493 a clay
model was ready to display. Imminent war, however, meant repurposing the bronze earmarked for the sculpture into cannons, and the
clay model was destroyed in the conflict after the ruling Sforza duke fell from power in 1499.
The first is da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” painted during his time in Milan, from about 1495 to 1498. A tempera and oil mural on
plaster, “The Last Supper” was created for the refectory of the city’s Monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Also known as “The
Cenacle,” this work measures about 15 by 29 feet and is the artist’s only surviving fresco. It depicts the Passover dinner during which
Jesus Christ addresses the Apostles and says, “One of you shall betray me.” One of the painting’s stellar features is each Apostle’s
distinct emotive expression and body language. Its composition, in which Jesus is centered among yet isolated from the Apostles, has
influenced generations of painters.
Da Vinci’s interests ranged far beyond fine art. He studied nature, mechanics, anatomy, physics, architecture, weaponry and more, often
creating accurate, workable designs for machines like the bicycle, helicopter, submarine and military tank that would not come to
fruition for centuries. He was, wrote Sigmund Freud, “like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still
asleep.”
Probably because of his abundance of diverse interests, da Vinci failed to complete a significant number of his paintings and projects.
He spent a great deal of time immersing himself in nature, testing scientific laws, dissecting bodies (human and animal) and thinking
and writing about his observations. At some point in the early 1490s, da Vinci began filling notebooks related to four broad
themes—painting, architecture, mechanics and human anatomy—creating thousands of pages of neatly drawn illustrations and densely
penned commentary, some of which was indecipherable to others.
The notebooks—often referred to as da Vinci’s manuscripts and “codices”—are housed today in museum collections after having been
scattered after his death. The Codex Atlanticus, for instance, includes a plan for a 65-foot mechanical bat, essentially a flying machine
based on the physiology of the bat and on the principles of aeronautics and physics. Other notebooks contained da Vinci’s anatomical
studies of the human skeleton, muscles, brain, and digestive and reproductive systems, which brought new understanding of the human
body to a wider audience. However, because they weren’t published in the 1500s, da Vinci’s notebooks had little influence on scientific
advancement in the Renaissance period.
His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and a mechanical inventiveness that were centuries ahead of their time.
I learnt that to be successful we have to creative and innovator. We can try to work in various field but we have to create our own way.
It is not just the education that make a person knowledgeable. It is the environment that defines us. Since da Vinci was born during the
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renaissance era, which made the person he is now considered. We also need to be keener to learn new things. I learnt various aspect of
Leonardo. It was very useful to understand his life. It helped me to understand the art and technology he designed.
I learnt that Leonardo was not just an artist he was an engineer and can be thought as Renaissance man, because everything was so
much connected at that time.
His most famous paintings include the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, while his drawings such as Vitruvian Man – showcasing the
proportions of the human body – have become instantly recognizable.
His aim was to understand how nature works. I learned to be curious from his story. We should have open mind with independent
thinking. We should not be focused on only one aspect but should be diverse. Diversity is critical for creativity and innovation, which is
why it’s important to seek out points of view different from our own. We should also balance logic and imagination along with balance
in mind and body.

Leonardo da vinci, was an Italian polymath of the renaissance whose areas of interest includes invention, drawing, painting,

sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy and many more. He is father of architecture

and also widely considered as greatest painter. He was visionary whose inspiration are still followed today.
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讲座主题 Territorial Development, Urban Policies

Spatial planning systems refer to the methods and approaches used by the public and private sector to
influence the distribution of people and activities in spaces of various scales. Spatial planning can be
defined as the coordination of practices and policies affecting spatial organization. Spatial planning is
synonymous with the practices of urban planning in the United States but at larger scales and the term
is often used in reference to planning efforts in European countries. Discrete professional disciplines
which involve spatial planning include land use, urban, regional, transport and environmental planning.
Other related areas are also important, including economic and community planning. Spatial planning
takes place on local, regional, national and inter-national levels and often results in the creation of a
spatial plan.
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Spatial justice links together social justice and space, most notably in the works of geographers David
Harvey and Edward W. Soja. The organization of space is a crucial dimension of human societies and
reflects social facts and influences social relations (Henri Lefebvre, 1968, 1972). Consequently, both
justice and injustice become visible in space. Therefore, the analysis of the interactions between space
and society is necessary to understand social injustices and to formulate territorial policies aiming at
tackling them. It is at this junction that the concept of spatial justice has been developed.
The territorial are fragile when there is spatial injustice. This will create more problem in cities. Even
when the cities are developed in the centered but its periphery can create more problems if there exit
this injustice.
Numerous planning systems exist around the world. The form of planning largely diverges and
co-evolves with societies and their governance systems. Every country, and states within those
countries, have a unique planning systems that is made up by different actors, different planning
perspectives and a particular institutional framework. Perspectives, actors and institutions change over
time, influencing both the form and the impact of spatial planning. Especially in Northwestern Europe
spatial planning has evolved greatly since the late 1950s. Until the 1990s, the term ‘spatial’ was used
primarily to refer to the way that planning should deal with more than simply zoning, land use
planning, or the design of the physical form of cities or regions, but also should address the more
complex issues of the spatial relationship of activities such as employment, homes and leisure use

During the urban development, people are mainly focused on the area where there is more density of
population which are cities. But, during those process of development in the core cities, many planners
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forget that this will also induce development around those areas. There creates more pressure on the
outside of the core area, as it need to balance the change the city is going. All the resources to the cities
will go through them and due to the development the cost of living goes on increasing in the city. So,
the movement of the people towards the outskirts increases. This sprawl becomes so fast that even the
center seems to developed, outskirts become more populated with lots of problem. So these creates the
fragility in those areas. With less resources it sees the massive development. So, it is necessary to
balance the development inside and think of the development on the outside.
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讲座主题 Towards Achieving Sustainable Goals: Sustainable solutions for Cities

This webinar has the intention to illustrate the topic of Sustainable Development (SD) strategies at
three different scales: regional, urban as well as rural and at building scale.

Sustainable Development is a worldwide issue and for this reason, we propose a multi-cultural context
of the discussion, involving China, Nepal, and Italy. The issues, problems, dynamics in these three
countries could be called exemplary of three different strategies to achieve similar goals.

China is currently one of the most important players in the global scenario and its cities represent
unparalleled challenges when it comes to meeting sustainable development goals. China counts some
of the biggest cities in the world, with cases, like Chongqing with over 30 million inhabitants,
regionally planned city? like Jing-Jin-Ji which should count between 300 to 500 million people. The
technologies and the strategies involved are immense and they represent some of the frontiers for the
designers, planners, and governments.
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In Nepal, sustainable urban development has been a popular theme among planners, politicians, and the
public. The approach to realize this has witnessed the emergence of several planning strategies
including smart city planning. The recent ‘smart city planning initiatives for emerging municipalities,
however, have met with both enthusiasm and criticism concerning the lack of very basic infrastructure
to qualify as cities, use of smart technology, and the inclusion of SD goals. The presentation will
discuss the smart city plan and SD concerns with a brief presentation of one of the smart cities plan
prepared.

In Italy, within the wider framework of the European Directives, regulations, and guidelines there is
increasing interest in possible solutions aimed at reducing several environmental effects, at different
action scales. Some solutions act to lessen all those environmental emergencies related to global
changes. Some others, instead, are focused on minimizing local pollutions especially nowadays since it
is proved a correlation between particulate matters and Covid-19.

The mentioned effects do not affect only big cities but also rural areas. For instance, several pollutants
spread over kilometers outside cities and, at the same time, the neglect of the rural area involves the
absence of land conservation and maintenances. Recent references about Smart City are now
suggesting the idea to implement some of its elements into a further concept known as Agile Territory,
Agile City, and Agile Building. Some multipurpose technological solutions are part of the Agile
concept and they can be effectively exploited.

The presentation includes that touch three different levels of analysis: bioregional level, district level,
building level, and technologies to cover different possible strategies to approach the planning. Such
a planning approach has to be necessarily based on sustainability for every future human action,
radically compromised by modern development and seriously compromised by the neo-liberal
economy.
 This helped me to understand the various aspects of sustainable development goals from different
perspective. The world is becoming increasingly urbanized. Since 2007, more than half the world’s
population has been living in cities, and that share is projected to rise to 60 percent by 2030. Cities and
metropolitan areas are powerhouses of economic growth, contributing about 60 percent of global GDp.
However, they also account for about 70 percent of global carbon emission and 60 percent of resources
use. Rapid urbanization is resulting in a growing number of slum dwellers, inadequate and
overburdened infrastructure and services, worsening air pollution and unplanned urban sprawl.
A major obstacle to global sustainable development in an urbanized world is that urban policy is far too
frequently pursued in a disintegrated manner. Urban issues advocates were concerned that this pattern
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would continue. The SDGs are un-precedent opportunity for local governments to develop practical
solutions to challenges that have proven to be problematic and divisive for national government. For
those local governments that have been pioneers in sustainable urban development, the SDGs provide a
platform that will allow them o push the pace of progress even further while providing leadership for
these cities that are only now beginning to engage sustainable urban development and for whom the
SDGs offer a blueprint for action. All over the world, local leaders are working together to drive
measurable, reportable and verifiable progress within in sustainable development.
For SDGs to be successful, action must be cross cutting and inclusive. Efforts from national
government, the private sector, universities, civil society, and common citizen must be coordinated and
comprehensive. Bringing these diverse group together can be difficult task, particularly when they have
been working in isolation for so long, yet local governments are well situated to help guide public
understanding f the complex sustainability challenges laid out in the SDGs. As urban areas have
continued to grow in recent decades, local governments have gradually had to assume more
responsibilities related to the provision of basic services within cities. This increase in responsibility,
however, has often not been matched by consistent financial and institutional support from national
governments.
Many cities have been actively participating in environmental initiatives and implementing sustainable
projects.
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讲座主题 Practicing Circular Economy Locally – Thailand Experience

Thailand has been practicing self-sufficiency economy for decades, thanks to the inspiration from the
late King Bhumibol. This has inspired researcher, educators and entrepreneurs in Thailand to contribute
to circular economy. Sustainable development goals and sustainability branding in business are also
driving the practice on CE.
Thailand is well positioned to capitalize on the global shift towards a circular economy. Some
companies have already incorporated the CE concept in their practices, and government policies
provide an attractive business climate for those looking to add value to raw materials or turn waste and
plastic into green industries. The shift towards green consumption and the call for environmentally
responsible business aim to accelerate Thailand’s transition from the linear ‘take-make-dispose’ model,
to the circular paradigm of ‘make-use-return,’ generating more business opportunities for CE
companies and startups.
Repairing, replacing, recycling and recovering have been around for some time. However, circularity in
Thailand seems to centre around the reuse of products and raw materials, rather than the prevention of
waste and harmful emissions. Nevertheless, the concept of ‘Closing the loop’ is adopted more and
more by Thai operators. CE principles are increasingly incorporated into strategies, operations and
business models. See the boxes for examples of CE initiatives by leading corporations in Thailand.
Thailand is paving the way towards a sustainable circular industry, fueled by industry transformations
and adjustments in the policy framework. Together with changing consumer behaviour and the in-
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troduction of green consumption, the market for CE and eco-friendly products is growing. Thailand is
looking for solutions, starting with changing the way people think about products and the production
processes (rethink), redesign, recycling technologies, and resource recovery.
While more companies are aware of the environmental impact of their production process and are
starting to incorporate CE concept into their business strategies, many companies have focused on the
lower part of the R-ladder (repair, remanufacture, recycle, and recover). Thailand’s waste management
plan calls for 75% of total solid waste to be properly disposed or recycled by 2021. However, unsorted
waste, open dumping, and impractical recycling system remain prevalent, particularly in large cities
such as Bangkok Metropolitan. Since the composition of waste in Thailand is dominated by organic
waste followed by paper, plastic, glass, and metal, no single method of MSW management can deal
with all materials in an environmentally sustainable way. Therefore, a suitable approach should be an
integrated approach in which complementarities between different parts of the waste management
chain are utilized to ensure maximum value.
Thailand’s energy demand is expected to increase by 70% in the next two decades. The country that
currently relies heavily on energy imports has to plan for energy security through improved efficiency
and greater use of renewable energy sources. The revised Power Development Plan calls for gradually
opening up investor participation in WTE power projects, setting the goal of 500 megawatts or 30% of
total renewable resources from such fuel by 2037. WTE technology in Thailand includes
incineration, refuse derived fuel utilization, anaerobic digestion, pyrolysis, gasification, and landfill gas
recovery. Thailand WTE market is well developed in relation to waste collection and landfilling, waste
incineration, and the availability of policy and government driven feed-in tariffs. Turning solid waste
into energy will continue to grow with high potential as energy demand and MSW output will rise
significantly while open dumping is prohibited. A clean, alternative to landfills, with more hygienic
treatment will be high on the development agenda. Wastewater is a prominent environmental problem
for Thailand. Increasing population, urbanization, agricultural and industrial expansion, as well as
pollutants from human activities, have contributed to the degradation of water quality.
Measures have been adopted to improve the collection and treatment of wastewater, including new
regulations, standards, and plans to establish new wastewater treatment facilities. These measures will
lead to new investment flows from both the public and private sectors.
 This helped me to understand the various implementation aspects of circular economy. It also made me
understand how CE can be used in the cities. The activities done the Government of Thailand and
industries and people of Thailand helped me understand these situations. I also understood that While
awareness is rising, the country is in an early stage of its transition towards CE. In this stage, policy
frameworks are being adjusted, and the industry is gradually transforming. One should not expect a
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quick turnaround or large capital expenditures as CE might not be of utmost priority in some instances.
For CE projects, particularly those related to public infrastructure, many agencies and stakeholders will
likely be involved. As a result, overlapping responsibilities, conflicting interests and a lack of coordi-
nation could cause delays or discontinuity of CE projects.
It is also vital that companies look into their level of competitiveness. Furthermore, being present
physically or having a local representative is recommended. Moreover, note that in the case of foreign
entities, more opportunities are foreseen for subcontracts than winning direct contracts.
Thailand is in the process of mapping the Thailand CE landscape and identifying gaps of development
in the various sectors which is really important in every study. Their preliminary findings include 1.
sSME led and community CE practice 2. government policy push for scaling up and 3. adopting
multidisciplinary approach to drive the CE transformation. These aspects are very important in my
study as well.
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讲座主题 From Sprawl to Density : The Global Challenge of Urbanization

Urbanisation of the planet is the most concrete phenomenon of the changes in
global human settlements patterns. The increase of migration flows in the
time of globalisation in the 20th and 21st century helps us to understand the
dynamics of urbanisation. Each day thousands of migrants arrive in cities
around the world to look for opportunities for a better life. The movement of
people from rural areas to cities is so widespread and having tremendous
impacts on the way we live and work. United Nations Department of
Economic and Social Affairs and United Nations Population Fund’s recent
reports consider urbanisation as the defining aspect of our time.
Urbanisation is one of the most important forces to drive the global economy.
World Bank data shows that urbanisation is a very strong indicator of all
aspects of productivity growth over the long run. It demonstrates the
co-relationship between urbanisation and economic development level. The
higher the urbanisation level in a country is, the higher the GDP per capita.
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This trend is more obvious for countries with GDP per capita below
USD10,000. Very few countries have reached income levels of USD10,000
before reaching about 60 percent urbanisation level.
Humanity is moving inextricably to cities. For many people, there is only one
response: to make cities denser. Adding the threat of climate change just
reinforces the argument: dense cities can support the kind of local services
and transport infrastructure that gets people out of CO2 emitting cars. Fifty
years on from the high-rise social housing experiments that failed so badly,
the UN’s “principles for sustainable neighbourhood planning” favour high
density. It’s official: density is good for us.
Developers and architects have embraced this new orthodoxy, seizing the
opportunity to raise development values with ever more ambitious and
complex designs. But urban density is still viewed with suspicion by much of
the public, who associate it with rundown 1960s tower blocks, the spectre of
Victorian overcrowding, or the nightmare future of Blade Runner’s vertical
cities.
Nevertheless, densification must happen or else the world has to sacrifice an
unprecedented volume of precious countryside. As Andrew Altman, the
masterplanner behind the regeneration of London’s former Olympic Park,
now managing principal of Fivesquares Development in Washington DC,
says: “We’re going to have to densify, and in terms of the rehabilitation of
cities, this is a good thing. But it’s not a choice.”
 Rapid urbanization, demographic shifts, and infrastructure needs are
challenging urban development and city competitiveness around the world.
What are the needs and solutions in high growth emerging markets? What
role does urban regeneration play in mature markets? What about cities that
are shrinking or slowly recovering? How do cities move forward to
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implement solutions that deliver long term value? These question will be
important for my research. We need to create energy efficient building and
community to reduce carbon emission of a city. These points are really
helpful to understand and implement in my research.
As we know that in developing countries, the pace of urbanization cannot be
underestimated. Meanwhile, in established cities such as London, planners,
developers and designers often reach elegant and thoughtful solutions only after
long debate, which leaves housing woefully underprovided. Templates for
neighbourhoods that are dense, mixed-use, transport-based and, above all, quick
to deliver are surely a challenge worth putting our minds to which is also the
fundamental concept of my research.
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讲座主题 Sustainable Development Goals and Town planning

“Cities and territories are where women and men, girls and boys, live, where they work to
create their livelihoods and where dreams are made. They are where poverty and
inequalities are tackled, where health and education services are provided, where
ecosystems are protected, and human rights must be guaranteed.” The SDGs come into
effect in a world that is increasingly urban. A little over half the global population now
lives in cities and this figure is projected to grow to two-thirds of the global population by
2050 [4]. Urban living has become the norm in large swathes of the world, with about 80
percent of the population of OECD countries, South America, and the Middle East living in
urban areas. Over the next decades, urbanization will be a defining trend in other parts of
the world, especially in East Asia, South Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, where the bulk of
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extreme poverty is concentrated. Urbanization has thrown up some of the world’s greatest
development challenges, but it also has tremendous opportunities for advancing sustainable
development.
Today, cities generate 80 percent of global GDP , but at the same time, they are also
responsible for as much as 70 percent of global energy consumption and 70 percent of
global carbon emissions. They are home to extreme poverty, unemployment and
socio-economic disparities, unsustainable patterns of consumption and production, and are
key contributors to climate change and environmental degradation. And yet, cities also
accommodate most of the world’s businesses and informal enterprises, provide markets for
industry and employment, foster technological innovations, and support high-density
habitation and efficient land use. For mayors and local leaders that are working to improve
the quality of life in urban environments, the SDGs provide a roadmap for more balanced
and equitable urban development.
The mounting challenges posed by climate change, environmental degradation, food
security, and civil unrest and violence, need different development solutions from those of
the previous century. The SDGs offer a set of integrated objectives which can help to bring
about a more sustainable vision of urban development, one that provides equal
opportunities to all inhabitants, promotes healthy living environments with access to green
spaces, and is resilient in the face of everyday disasters and climate risks.
 Key characteristics of a sustainable city include the following:
• Inclusion that enables access to public goods and services, sustainable livelihood
opportunities, reduced inequality, and gender equality.
• Healthy and well-planned, with walkable neighborhoods, affordable housing and
services, plenty of green and public spaces, and adequate densities to optimize the
cost-efficiency of service provision, including water and sanitation, transit, health and
education services.
• A high quality of life, with the ability to compete globally to attract investments and
migrants, and create jobs, all of which add economic value to the city.
• Protection of urban ecosystems such as coasts, lakes, forests, and wetlands, and the
conservation of biodiversity, which foster healthier and more attractive living
environments with greater property values and tax revenues.
• Resilience against everyday disasters and climate risks, with reduced vulnerability via
provision of universal basic services, well-regulated building construction, effective
ecological infrastructure like storm water drainage, early warning systems effective
disaster management and emergency services, and improved community and local
government capacities.
• Strong urban-rural linkages for more prosperous regional growth and balanced
territorial development, with greater access to markets and employment, secure food
supply chains, ecological services and well-regulated peripheral land planning

Localization refers to the process of adapting, implementing, and monitoring the SDGs at
the local level. Nearly all the SDGs have targets that will depend on local government
action, including SDG 11. Localization is the process by which local authorities and local
stakeholders will adapt and implement these targets within cities and human settlements. In
practice, SDG localization comprises two main process 1. planning and implementing the
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SDGs and monitoring SDGs progress.

These will help me understand how these how sdgs can be implement in my site. It can
also be seen that local government can adopt SDGs through various points. Leave no one
and no place behind is the strategy that can help the achievement of sustainable
development goals. For mayors and local leaders that are committed to pursuing
sustainable urban development, the SDGs provide a roadmap with concrete goals and
targets that can help cities become more sustainable. The pursuit of sustainable
development has the potential to improve the quality of life for residents, and promote new
economic opportunities for green growth. As the world turns towards more sustainable
modes of living and development, cities and territories that invest in sustainability today
will be ahead of the curve and accrue a competitive edge over other regions for
development and investment.
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讲座主题 Sustainable Cities : Nature Based solutions in Urban Design

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Cities are facing increasing environmental, social and economic challenges that together threaten the
resilience of urban areas and the residents who live and work there. These challenges include both
chronic stresses and acute shocks. Climate change impacts are amplifying these challenges.
Nature-based solutions have emerged as a concept for integrating a range of ecosystem-based
approaches to address a range of societal challenges. Nature-based solutions directly address and
contribute to increased urban resilience, but understandings of the mechanisms and vehicles for their
implementation in cities are still being developed. There is potential for mainstreaming nature-based
solutions through integration into urban planning approaches, but these are not yet well developed in
either research or practice.
Ecological systems provide a wide range of functions which benefit humans and the cities in which
they live. ‘Nature-based solutions’ has emerged as a concept, or umbrella term, for ecosystem-based
approaches to address the societal challenges of climate change, natural disasters, food and water
security, human health and well-being, and economic and social development. Nature-based solutions
address these societal challenges through the delivery of ‘ecosystem services’. Urban resilience is
increased through the inclusion of nature-based solutions and their associated delivery of ecosystem
services in urban areas. Ecosystem services contribute to thriving cities during times of stability,
particularly through the provision of cultural ecosystem services that bring social, cultural and
community benefits and wellbeing. Nature-based solutions and urban green spaces provide the location
for recreation, social interaction, building community cohesion and contributing to physical and mental
health and wellbeing.
Urban planning is concerned with shaping cities, towns, and regions by managing development,
infrastructure, and services. Urban planning, also known as land use, physical or spatial planning, is a
spatial exercise to provide structure to activities through long-term thinking and decision making to
guide future action. Urban planning is the intentional and explicit intervention in the built environment
through the development of plans, programs and design. Rather than have cities progress
indiscriminately, urban planners set a normative course to move towards a goal, that for many cities
globally, is increasingly focused on achieving a more sustainable, resilient, compact, integrated, equal,
and just future.
In practice, planning is often focused on facilitating interdisciplinary information gathering and
decision-making that navigates potentially conflicting views and priorities. Urban planning has
therefore developed into a discipline that is well-placed to address the range of trade-offs associated
with implementing nature-based solutions for urban resilience.
In urban planning’s engagement with resilience, new approaches to planning itself are evolving.
Resilience approaches to urban planning also promote the integration of ecology with urban planning.
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Resilience thinking can be integrated into planning in the evaluation of existing plans, programs, and
planning measures to identify vulnerabilities and deficits. Resilience thinking can also help to identify
vital issues within urban social-ecological systems in the decision-making stages of planning and urban
design interventions. Urban planning is largely anthropocentric; cities need to be recognised as shared
habitats. For urban planning to effectively support nature-based solutions’ implementation, new and
evolving practices of research using multi-species approaches are needed.
Since my research is also based on urban planning, this topic seems to be interesting. It can be used to
implement one aspect of development in my research site. I understood to see from the solution based
on nature rather than fabricating other solutions for any urban problem in the area.
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讲座主题 Cities, People and Sustainable Mobility

This webinar helps in presenting public platform as a national effort by a broadly defined civil society
on rethinking the urban challenge and reformulating response; connecting to individuals, organizations
and institutions, for their skills, expertise, experience and interest; mapping human and other resources
that could be tapped to strengthen CITIURI; building a supporting constituency through working
together and sharing for wider societal ownership.
With the rising importance of environmental quality the primary goal of transportation policies is
increasingly defined as sustainable mobility. However, the concept of sustainability does not only refer
to the natural environment. Transport policies need to accommodate, to varying degrees, three
objectives: economic growth, social equity and environmental sustainability. The challenge of policy
formulation is complicated by the fact that all three objectives are themselves multi-dimensional. The
costs and benefits of policy measures to promote sustainable mobility in cities are likely to be
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differentially distributed across different segments of the population based on location,

socio-demographic and economic characteristics, behavioural patterns (including travel behaviour) and
demand attributes. Discrete measures designed to benefit one group often adversely affect others.
Spillover effects occur between spatial units and on a temporal dimension. There are positive synergies
between some policies, whereas other policies cancel each other out. Thus there is a great societal
benefit in designing harmonised, comprehensive policy packages to promote sustainable mobility.
The discussion, also drawing on the references to public awareness and the role of the public in the
earlier webinars, will focus on: what is the role of the public in driving a city’s choice for sustainable
mobility systems, What have been the experiences of and learnings from public engagement in
mobility policies, plans and projects – what has been tried, what worked and why, what are some
challenges, what are the relative merits and challenges of different drivers of change in the sustainable
mobility sector and where might we place Education for Sustainable Development (which has a much
broader scope than public awareness and participation), what are the current opportunities for
enhancing public understanding on sustainable mobility, and are they adequate for the transformation
that is desired, how can we design public engagement on sustainable mobility, that is oriented to
driving policy, programmes and locale-specific solutions, in an inclusive, and knowledgeable manner.

Inclusion and involving many stakeholder is the key to any development. It is necessary to understand
how we can involve and how important it is to involve various players. Participation must believe in
people and trust them.
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Effective and reliable transport systems are crucial for the functioning of post-industrial economies, as
such economies are based on rapid movement of goods and people in an in-creakingly complex spatial
pattern. et such systems generate significant negative externalities, such as air pollution, noise
vibrations, safety hazards, visual blight, energy consumption and emission of greenhouse gases and
loss of open space.
The most difficult issues in advancing policy package is the understanding of the interactions between
policy tools. One, conflicting or supportive direct effects between policy measure. These take place
within a complex system, in which a policy geared to attain one objective is likely to affect other
objectives, not always monitored by the policy maker.
So, to develop it is necessary to sync the policy maker, policy and as many possible stakeholder.
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讲座主题 Citizen engagement tools to implement a participatory urban planning

Starting from an understanding of the built environment factors that promote human health and
wellness. The built environment influences the public’s health, particularly in relation to chronic
diseases. There is good evidence to indicate that the burden of chronic disease in the population can be
reduced through an active lifestyle, proper nutrition, and reduced exposure to toxic condition.
However, many urban and suburban environments are not well designed to facilitate healthy behaviors
or create the conditions for health. Health officials can provide information about healthy living, but if
people live in poorly designed physical environments, their health will suffer.
Although the links between physical activity, proper nutrition, a clean environment, and health are well
known, the current built environment does not promote healthy lifestyles. Many urban environments
lack safe open spaces that encourage exercise and easily accessible nutritious food and promote the use
of alcohol and tobacco products through outdoor advertising. A spread-out suburban design facilitates
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reliance on automobiles, increasing pollution and decreasing the time spent walking from place to
place.
The environment is integral to encouraging physical activity. Yet urban areas frequently lack adequate
safe playgrounds and green spaces. The “open space” that exists may be vacant lots covered with
garbage and debris, which attracts vermin and can harbor criminal activities. Children may choose to
play in the streets rather than in the broken glass, garbage, and used needles of the vacant lots. This
lack of safe places discourages a child’s play and exercise. In addition, neighborhoods without green
space lack a sense of community and feature increased acts of violence when compared with those that
surround green space.
Public participation, also known as citizen participation, is the inclusion of the public in the activities
of any organization or project. Public participation is similar to but more inclusive than stakeholder
engagement.
This webinar shows how the planning and development of cities and neighborhoods are essential to
health and well-being. It introduces a list of essential citizen engagement tools to use in the
implementation of a participatory urban planning project.

It is important to understand the participatory urban planning approach because it enables the
confluence of 2 type of knowledge, from citizen and from professional. Combining this two knowledge
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it enables the collective identification of problems and solutions. It also enables continuous
involvement of citizens and stakeholders. We need to ask our self why we are working and what we
should work to understand about the public participation. It is necessary to understand what type of
activities we need to use for the public participation which will increase the urban health status of the
area. Having the understanding of various tools will help better access the project area. Some of them
from the webinar are Exploratory walk, street game, tactical urbanism, people count and finally the
quality criteria. So, webinar is useful to do the analysis part in my research.