Sustainable Urban System Design

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• Sustainable Urban System Design
• Summary of the impact of citiesPLUS
• Dr. Nola-Kate Seymoar
• Jane McRae
• International Centre for Sustainable Cities
• July 2007

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• The International Centre for Sustainable Cities-
  Where we Work

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• Energy Efficiency in
• Buildings
• Jinan Dormitory Wing
• Shandong University
• China

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• South East Asia Local Solid Waste Improvement
  Project

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• Food Security
• Cuba

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• Identifying Best
• Practices
• Electronic consultation for the
• 2006 World Urban Forum

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• Sustainable Urban System Design Competition -IGU
• 100 Year Vision for Greater Vancouver
• Competition winner
• Legacy -
• Sustainable Cities PLUS Network

PLUS
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International Centre for Sustainable Cities

• Mission
• To catalyze action on urban sustainability
  through
• demonstration projects
• peer learning networks
• affiliations
• high profile events

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• Scaling out

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• Sustainable Cities PLUS Network
• PLUS is an acronym for Partners for Long-term
  Urban Sustainability

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• Sustainable Cities PLUS Network

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Vancouvers Lessons Learned

• Extending the timeframe changes everything
• One-system approach (integration)
• Resiliency
• Participatory approach
• multiple groups from different sectors and civil
  society working together
• Demonstrating action
• Sharing learning

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Planning Timeframes

• Long-term (30 to 100 years) Vision
• Medium-term (10 to 30 years) Strategies
• Short-term (5-10 years) Plans

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• Examples from the PLUS Network
• Cities copy
• other cities
• from Chicago
• to Calgary
• to Durban

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• Scaling out learning is relative to size and
  stage of development
• Cities learn from inspiration or necessity
• Big Cities learn from medium sized cities
• Medium sized cities learn from smaller ones
• Developing country cities learn from cities in
  newly industrialized countries
• Canada is among the leaders in the city business

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• Sharing the Learning at
• High Profile Events
• World Urban Forum
• ICLEI World Congress

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Network Membership

• A city commits to.
• Using a long-term lens (50-100 years)
• Adopting sustainability principles (e.g.
  Melbourne Principles, Earth Charter, Local Agenda
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• Three Sectors
• Participatory approach
• Sharing learning

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• Private Sector Investments in cities PLUS
• 435,000 of a total of 1.4 Million
• and the Sustainable Cities PLUS Network
• 361,000 of a total of 3.8 Million
• Direct engagement through staff release
• Enables engagement of cities outside of Canada
  and Africa, conferences, salaries, overhead and
  other costs not covered by fees or contribution
  agreements

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• Impact of citiesPLUS
• Local
• GVRD Sustainable Region Initiative
• National
• External Committee on Cities and Communities
• Integrated Community Sustainability Plans (gas
  tax)
• International
• Sustainable Cities PLUS Network 30 cities and
  regions
• High profile events
• World Urban Forum, ICLEI - World Congress,
  Climate Change Meetings

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• Future directions
• Traveling together

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• For further information
• www.icsc.ca
• www.plusnetwork.org
• email- reception_at_icsc.ca