Factor 5 Flow City

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Factor 5 Flow City

• Future Images of Sustainable Urban Development in
  the Baltic Sea Region
• Per G Berg
• Landscape Planning Department, SLU Uppsala

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The Planetary Shield is Injured
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Here it is our endangered atmospheric shield
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The Cities in the Baltic Sea Region is a part of
the Problem
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So What is a Factor Five Flow City?
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Definition 1 Factor 5 City

• A factor 5 City has reduced its need for life
  support areas to 20 of the present situation,
  without compromising with the citizens access to
  culture, parks, service, education and work
  places.

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Definition 2 Flow City

• Physical, economic, organisational and other
  resources continuously streaming or being
  exchanged in a dynamic system (e.g. a city).
• E.g. flows of energy, money, traffic, laundry
  and knowledge. Also a light state of mind a
  psychological sense of Context.

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Definition 3 Factor 5 Flow City

• FFFC is a semi-quantitative metaphor for a city
  with radically less need for physical life
  support and with far less cultural, social and
  organisational friction than today.

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Factor five flow city 5 x more efficient than
today

• Uses only 20 of the fossile fuels of today
• Has only 20 of the nutrient losses
• Reduce transport CO2-exhaust with 80
• Has a five time longer active coastline between
  built and green structues
• Produces the same social, organisational and
  cultural resources with only a fifth of the
  ecosystems life support area.

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Is this a Good Example?
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I was just kidding.
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There are good FFFC house level examples The
Lindås house without Heat System
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FFFC communities Hågaby model area 50 aspects
of SD.
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There are also good FFFC plans for townscape areas
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Examples of Factor Five Flow City Candidates

• TOWNS (Baltic Reg)
• Livani, Latvia
• Hällefors, Sweden
• Hannover, Germany
• Novgorod, Russia
• Sopot, Poland
• Turku, Finland

• CITIES
• Vancouver
• Seattle
• Münich
• Hong Kong
• Stockholm
• Curitiba

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Factor five flow Regions

• The Baltic Sea Region
• Mediterranian region
• Alp-Adriatic Region
• North West U.S. and Canada
• North-West Russia
• Southern Africa

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Why Factor 5 Flow City?
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The Carrying Capacity of Soils

• CULTURE YEAR IND / km2
• Hunters and Gatherers lt4000 B.C. 1
• Slash-Burn Agriculture 4000-1000 B.C. 20
• Permanent Agriculture 1000-1800 50
• Meadow-field Agriculture 1800-1950 200
• Modern Agriculture 1950- 3000
• Looks good, doesnt it?

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Simultaneously
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Life-Support areas (LSA) are too largeCarl Folke
et al. 1997. AMBIO
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The ratio between City and LSA

• City Life-support-Area
• City-Primary Production 1200
• City-Waste Assimilation area 1550-1200
• City- Total Life-Support Area 1 1000
• The Goal is 1200 Factor 5

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Or expressed as footprints 29 largest BSR cities
appropriate 75-150 of the Baltic Sea Drainage
Basin
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How can FFFC be realised?
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Seven planning resources (framework) for a Factor
Five Flow City adopted from the Habitat Agenda
(1996 and 2001)
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A factor five flow culture.

• Conserve physical resources and introduce
  renewable energy, materials and waters
• Decouple economy from environmental impact
• Fractally integrate green and built structures
• Forms an organisationally efficient city, town,
  community and settlement structure
• Upholds strong social communities supporting a
  sustainable and healthy lifestyle
• Always emphasises its local cultures over time
• Designs intersensory supportive human habitats

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Conserve physical resources energy, materials
and waters

• The Renewable Diversity Era
• The Bio-Detoxification Era
• The Dematerialisation Era
• The Cascade Coupling Era
• The Sustainable Lifestyle Era
• The Lighter Backpack Era

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Non-renewable Uranium Formation time gt3
billion years
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Non-renewable Carbon Formation time 300
million years
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Half-renewablePeat formation time 300 to 3000
years
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Renewable Bio-Pellets Formation time 3-30
years
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Renewable Solar energy Formation time 0.000
000 3 Seconds
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The Chinese Thermos
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The New Solar Heat Cool Storage Miracle Machine
from ClimateWell
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The Detoxification EraOur invisible Allies
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The Dematerialisation Era Step 1 Prime
ministers Heat absorbers
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The Dematerialisation ERA Step 2 The Factor 5
Rubber Cloth Absorber
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The Dematerialisation Era Step 3 The factor
1000 Chinese Thermos
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The cascade coupling Era The Living machine
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The Sustainable Lifestyle Era
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The Lighter Backpack Era
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CONCLUSIONS The Factor Five flow City
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Decouples Economic Growth from Environmental
Impact the Factor 5 Car (energy and materials)
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Fractally integrate built and Green structures
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Utilises the Green-Blue City Coast factor 5
longer than a compact circle
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Forms an efficient communities-, transport-, and
information-infrastructure factor 5
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Upholds strong communities supporting a
sustainable and healthy factor 5 lifestyle
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Always emphasises its local Heritage over time,
which contributes to a Factor 5 lifestyle
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Designs intersensory supportive human habitats
supports factor 5 lifestyle
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Programme 2006-2010 Factor Five Flow City in 10
Baltic Region Cities

• 10 comprehensive plans
• 50 years futures studies on Factor five flow
  adataption
• 10 core researchers
• 50 assisting senior and junior researchers
• Practitioners and communication teams
  continuously reviewing

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Factor 5 Flow City

• Per G Berg
• Landscape Planning Department, SLU Uppsala
• INFO and LINKS per.berg_at_lpul.slu.se
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