Course introduction - The urban environment - challenges and potential
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What do settlements require to be made?
- Agriculture
- Trade
2) Subsoil
3) Technological innovations
What are growth drivers?
- Migration
- Reclassification of urban areas
Is population growth equal to urban growth?
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What are effects of climate change?
- Extreme weather
- Changes in composition of oceans
- Sea level rise
Problems that cause climate change
- Heavily reliant on non-renewable resources
- Pollution, degradation and destruction of earth's systems
What is the current state of our urbanized world?
What causes the massive throughput of materials?
- global transportation based on fossil fuel
- Without fossil fuels mega cities would not have occured
What do we need to do to re-balance the world
- Tackle challenges and opportunities of urban areas
Why do cities have high potential?
- Unused potential for supply, recovery and production
- Unused potential of ambitious people
- Local technical / socio-technical solutions
What is the vision for future cities?
- Cascading, recovery and reuse of resource flows
- Maximize potential
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