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16.- Planning towards energy saving communities with a UX (User Experience) centred methodology.

Breogan Sanchez – Urban and Transport Planner
Quim Vilar – Urban Planner and Designer
Norma Rey – Urban Ecology Expert

ECTP Abstract Submission for the Young Planners Workshop 2014 Spatial planning and energy. Planning towards energy saving communities with a UX (User Experience) centred methodology.

A clear mistake often present in the urban planning/design process is to consider cities as inert scenarios where the hands of a few professionals result in a successful and sustainable
place. However, cultural patterns, social interactions or energy demands differ from one place to another and they deserve an extremely sensitive consideration in planning towards the
inhabitants and their future needs.

Cities are physically expanding more rapidly than their number of new inhabitants increases, causing an impact on traffic and energy consumption per person. Residential areas become more ‘only residential’ with discussions related to the future well-being of the community, such as energy efficiency, cease to exist and are often left to the hands of a few policy-makers.

In this sense, our approach is to plan energy efficient urban communities that provide a direct benefit and return to the citizen and thus making the neighbourhood the core element to achieve a successful result. Using a system of local cooperatives (that benefit for instance from a better taxation system for energy saving and renewable energy interventions), we propose a profit share benefit to the community that becomes owner of the energy grid ensuring it evolves efficiently and respectfully with the environment.

Once the decision to create energy efficient communities has been set we propose to use a ‘UX’ or user experience methodology to move the planning process forward. This model places the user (citizen) and experiences right at the centre of the planning/design process as they are the ones who know best what are the key adaptations needed in their neighbourhood.

Quantitative and qualitative energy data is analysed in conjunction with the community in order to establish robust decisions, therefore, interventions are undertaken at local scale and with the
consent of all parts, ensuring every decision is a positive investment (financially and socially) for the locals.
We believe that the planning process towards energy efficient cities starts at the heart of communities.

Our aim in the Young Planners Workshop is to demonstrate how measures to optimise energy can be efficiently started and managed locally with a UX integrated model resulting on a direct impact on communities, consequently delivering energy efficient spaces with locals committed to energy saving measures from the beginning of the local planning process.

simArpa Ltd.

5.- Spanish urban planning and energy: challenges for the future

In Spain spatial planning and energy have never been treated together because energy has always depended on private sector without connection to urban planning.

In the last years, the government has developed building rehabilitation policies with special influence in energy saving through economic aids and a new regulation with the requirement for solar panels to be fitted to new public buildings and dwellings to generate electricity for self-consumption, mainly hot water and heating.

However, these actions have not linked to urban planning which also needs to be adapted to new necessities. Keeping specific plots (areas) for energetic systems such as solar thermal or cogeneration plants, which means new urban land uses that allow new forms of urban energy production, developing new instruments like energy urban plans or establishing a regulation of solar plates in roofs should be taken into account.

Moreover, our main urban planning instrument, the general urban plan, has several limitations related to energy planning, the absence of alternative energies treatment or the lack of connection between planning and energy saving which is promoted through rehabilitation to improve the overall energy efficiency of the housing.

Therefore, the purpose of this paper is firstly to study these problems and later some pilot experience that has recently been presented to show how planning can help to deliver sustainable energy solutions considering the design (planning), cogeneration system (energy) and the finance (economy).

Beatriz Santos Sánchez

14.- Urban planning: the mirror of the society

Author’s name: Manuela Sarcià, Dario Salerno, Mario Reale, Ilaria Alessandria

Urban planning: the mirror of the society

Today one of the most important planning problem is to link the urban planning to sustainable development. In the last years the issue of sustainability has been implemented through several methods.

The focus point is to develop a partecipated way of planning processes, starting from a local urban organization including society.

The first step is informing and bringing up citizens about Energy costs/prices and technical aspects connected to the feasibility of producing Energy using alternative sources.

The second step includes citizens’ need of being informed and actively involved in planning development processes.

After these two phases a new way of public land use could come out.

The third step focuses on the Municipality as the main actor, which could transfer citizens some areas, such as services, fringe, abandoned and disuses industrial ones and so on. All this actions will promote urban regeneration interventions.

Others actions could include the creation of multifunctional spaces which will produce “green” Energy in order to save it.

In the meantime these spaces will become meeting and sharing point not only fisically but even virtually.

Thanks to these kind of areas each community could feel as a real active part of its neighborhood.

Moreover inside those areas it could be possible to create: waste separation areas, kinetic playgrounds, urban organic gardening, green areas, “mini wind farms” and so on.

13.- Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAP) and the Climate Plans: new tools for local environmental planning

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12.- Energy dependency at the urban scale and its social consequences

ENERGY DEPENDENCY AT THE URBAN SCALE AND ITS SOCIAL
CONSEQUENCES

Ana Sanz Fernández. Architect planner. UPM DEA Master in Urban Planning and Territorial. Coordinator edition CF + S. PhD student.
Carmen Sánchez-Guevara Sánchez. Architect planner. UPM DEA Masters in Environment and Bioclimatic Architecture.
Gonzalo Sánchez-Toscano. Architect planner. UPM DEA Master in Urban Planning and Territorial. PhD student.
Madrid (Spain), january 2014

The objective of the present research is to highlight the relation between energy consumption and citizens
basic needs. It is aimed at showing the existing risk of social exclusion due to an unequal distribution of access
to energy sources. Furthermore, urban and built environment shortfalls make the support unable to satisfy
aspects related to the citizens welfare.

The social and functional specialization process of the different metropolitan pieces and the transformation of
the physical structures and land uses have generated an increase in transport needs and, consequently, in
energy dependency. Within the building scale, fuel poverty has dramatically risen triggered by the energy
prices increase. All this reflects the way the city and the housing stock were designed from the old perspective
of fossil fuels abundance and how it has generated a strong energy dependency.

The current scenario of increasing energy prices and decreasing citizens income exacerbates this dependency
and shows the urgent need to seek a solution that rethinks and restructures the support. Ecological, economic
and social problems are already visible and they will presumably become more acute in a context of urban and
social polarization and sources shortage.

The urban and built support should be the one that guarantees the access to basic services at a reasonable
transport cost and the one that ensures minimum habitability conditions at reasonable energy costs. This idea
is in line with the 65/151 resolution of the United Nations General Assembly which understands that energy
must be a sustainable good as well as achievable by the whole population.

This research presents an analysis of the social and ecological consequences (fuel poverty, transport related
social exclusion, CO2 emissions) that current situation of fuel fossil dependency is generating. These
consequences involve all scales from the territorial to the building scale.

11.- Public participation in city design

Mateja Klun
Gašer Okršlar
Maja Weisseisen

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN CITY DESIGN

Complete document:
Public_Participation_in_City_Design-abstract

Today close to two thirds of world population live in cities or suburbanized areas. There, they are faced with numerous problems, such as overpopulation, lack of green areas, excessive and unsustainable use of cars, inadequate public transport… Furthermore, they are fighting global challenges as economic crisis and climate change – to solve these challenges, cities will have to come out with better energy efficiency and effective transport solutions through the intelligent use of modern information and telecommunication technologies (ICT).

All of this can be achieved with better planning and active involvement of stakeholders in the process of decision-making and urban management. The use of contemporary ICT tools can improve participation in the city making process. That could help create sustainable, user-friendly cities, that are based on mixed land use, walkable cities and smart and well organised public transport.

Our goal in the project is to explore the forms and possibilities of interactive public participation, such as e-Democracy, 3D models, different interactive web tools and other kinds of presentations of actual projects and communication with public audience.

We will perform a case study of importance of public awareness and information in designing cites in a smarter way. We will also explore, if it is possible to contribute to renovation urban public places and improve their use with public participation and promoting commmunity building.

The same set of problems is occuring in all cities in the meetropolies, big urban areas as well as in the medum and small sized cities (SMSC) . We will focus our attention on SMSC,because the importance of high level of quality of life remains the same regardless the size of the city. At the same time it is interesting for wider Europe, where urban networks of numerous european countries are formed from medium and small sized cities.