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ENGINEERING THE ECOLOGICAL CITY

ENGINEERING THE ECOLOGICAL CITY. Presented by Greg Allen. Credit: Wall-e, 2008. WHY WE NEED TO ENGINEER THE ECOLOGICAL CITY. Our civilization is based on MAXIMIZING consumption of natural resources, manipulating matter and biology, and discharging waste.

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ENGINEERING THE ECOLOGICAL CITY

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  1. ENGINEERING THE ECOLOGICAL CITY Presented by Greg Allen Credit: Wall-e, 2008

  2. WHY WE NEED TO ENGINEER THE ECOLOGICAL CITY Our civilization is based on MAXIMIZING consumption of natural resources, manipulating matter and biology, and discharging waste. The City is habitat for most of humanity and the organizational hub for this parasitic and toxic relationship with the biosphere. ALL essentials and luxuries are garnered by fossil fuels which will soon be unusable. The design problem is to restructure the City so as to conform to the Natural Step principles. We are short on TIMEandENERGY AVAILABILITY.

  3. 1 All super fields in decline 2 New discoveries peaked 20 years ago 3 Demands expect to increase while production may decline soon 4 Prices tripled in 3 years already impacting transportation sector

  4. { world oil production plateau }

  5. { world oil production plateau }

  6. 1Production on decline since 2003 2 Industries like fertilizer and plastics moving off shore 3 LNG and unconventional oil production insufficient to avoid fall

  7. { North America natural gas past peak}

  8. 1 Entering decline and lower quality 2 Clean coal oxymoron, increases CO2 3 Transportation limitations

  9. 1 Aging power stations dependent on declining fuel sources 2 Demand rising with shift to heat pumps, electric vehicles, rising cooling loads 3 Transmission, distribution system susceptible to overload

  10. A long way off … think SOLAR

  11. { Fueling the Economy}

  12. “ If we don’t change our energy system in a radical way in the next ten years, the wheel will come off. ” - FatihBirol, Chief Economist, IEA, 2007

  13. THE LENS: TERRAFORMING THE CITY Source: http://www.tbulin35.com/mars_landscape.jpg Source: http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&tab=wl&q=calgary

  14. THE PARADIGM SHIFT: FROM HIERARCHY TO HOLARCHY Source: http://www.maxim-tours.com/images/pyramids2.jpg http://www.sethwhite.org/images/pole2004/the%20dome/the%20dome.jpg The centre is everywhere, mutual exchange between and within scales with local autonomy that creates resilience

  15. SCOPE: AUTONOMOUS, SELF-MAINTAINING LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS

  16. BIOREGIONAL VISION Diagram of exchange (mountain + city)

  17. BIOREGIONAL VISION: LIFE

  18. BIOREGIONAL VISION: MATTER

  19. BIOREGIONAL VISION: ENERGY

  20. BIOREGIONAL VISION: EXCHANGE

  21. URBAN VISION

  22. URBAN VISION: LIFE

  23. URBAN VISION: MATTER

  24. URBAN VISION: ENERGY

  25. URBAN VISION: EXCHANGE

  26. PRECINCT VISION

  27. PRECINCT VISION: LIFE

  28. PRECINCT VISION: MATTER

  29. PRECINCT VISION: ENERGY

  30. PRECINCT VISION: EXCHANGE

  31. BUILDING VISION

  32. BUILDING VISION: LIFE

  33. BUILDING VISION: MATTER

  34. BUILDING VISION: ENERGY

  35. BUILDING VISION: EXCHANGE

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