Project description
Urban planning with a focus on climate change
European cities are all feeling the pressure of climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution and the depletion of natural resources. Urban planning and design practices are essential to create better connected, net-zero neighbourhoods. In this context, the EU-funded UP2030 project will enable a quantum leap from a ´business as usual´, project-by-project decarbonisation approach to a vision-driven, strategy-based approach anchored on sound projects and renewed policy development. Specifically, the project will develop a method that seeks to upskill, upgrade and uptake to build the capacities of the entire city stakeholder ecosystem. UP2030 will give citizens the opportunity to become agents of change.
Objective
UP2030 aims to guide cities through the socio-technical transitions required to meet their climate neutrality ambitions. It will do so by enabling a quantum leap from a ´business as usual´, project-by-project decarbonisation approach to a vision-driven, strategy-based approach that is anchored on sound projects and renewed policy development. The approach uses urban planning and design as a vehicle to create better connected, more compact, net-zero neighbourhoods in the city pilots – i.e. neighbourhoods that promote liveability and, through designing with intent, promote mitigation action. Unlike fragmented innovation processes that focus on the deployment of a specific solution to achieve incremental progress, UP2030 proposes that cities should themselves be at the centre of the innovation approach to drive transformative change. The project develops the 5UP methodological framework that supports cities in (i) UP-dating those policies, codes, regulations that need to be left behind to make room for the new vision (ii) UP-skilling, through building the capacities of the entire city stakeholder ecosystem that shall deliver actions (iii) UP-grading, through the development of solution prototypes (digital and physical) at selected neighbourhoods, (iv) UP-scaling to achieve city-wide impact by shaping the enabling governance arrangements and matching project portfolios to financial resources, and (v) UP-taking, by engaging with the Mission and sharing best practices across European cities. Inclusive participation is key throughout the project’s full cycle of activities so that real needs of communities are reflected in the city-specific visions, and co-designed interventions maximise delivery of co-benefits. As such, UP2030 will (a) have a measured positive impact on spatial justice in the pilots, and (b) give the opportunity to citizens to participate in the transition by becoming agents of change themselves through their sustainable behavioural shifts.
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80686 Munchen
Germany
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Participants (42)
10559 Berlin
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10717 Berlin
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54629 THESSALONIKI
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10117 Berlin
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28232 Las Rozas De Madrid
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2521 CA The Hague
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2628 CN Delft
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08017 Barcelona
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SEOUL
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79098 Freiburg Im Breisgau
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1015 CS Amsterdam
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80135 NAPOLI
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28037 Madrid
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08940 CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT BARCELONA
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1000 Sofia
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1700-066 Lisboa
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546 40 Thessaloniki
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06800 Ankara
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70174 Stuttgart
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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50018 Zaragoza
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2629 HV Delft
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54655 Thessaloniki
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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06800 Ankara
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1680 Sofia
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10138 Torino
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47822 Santarcangelo Di Romagna
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46022 Valencia
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10000 Zagreb
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1052 Budapest
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08401 Granollers
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34478 Istanbul
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1100-365 Lisboa
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1100 231 Lisboa
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20121 Milano
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48143 Munster
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3011 AD Rotterdam
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546 36 THESSALONIKI
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10 000 Zagreb
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8092 Zuerich
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N16 8NA LONDON
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CB2 1TN Cambridge
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BT2 8BP Belfast
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