1 month ago -In terms of transport, approaches to low-carbon urban development often focus onreducing fossil-fuel based transportation, improving public transit, and creating areas of mixed use developmentso that people are more likely to work and shop ...
Cities are also adopting nature-based solutions outside to help store carbon. Medellin in Colombia has planted 30 green corridors along 18 roads and 12 waterways, with 8,300 trees and 350,000 bushes. This has reduced the local temperature by more than 2C. Medellin and other dense cities in hot climates can suffer from the urban head island effect, where hard materials absorb solar energy and pass it back into cities, says Benz Kotzen, associate professor at the University of Greenwich’s School of Design.PublishedNovember 16, 2021
February 13, 2022 -Research on urban transformation to cities that are carbon-neutral and blue-green in Australia suggests that transition pathways in both arenas involve combinations of new technology, innovative urban design, enabling policies and regulations, new processes for planning and managing urban development, and demand-side changes in consumer attitudes and practices for urban living related to energy and water use.
This thesis combines Architecture 2030’s carbon-neutral performance targets with the SmartCode transect-based development principles, to generate guidelines for design of medium-density carbon-neutral districts. The topic examines these guidelines in medium density planned and built sites (transect types T4, General Urban Zone, and T5, Urban Center Zone) in representative cities within a cool-dry climate (IECC climate zone 5B, Denver) and a warm-humid climate (IECC climate zone 3A, Atlanta).
