ENGINEERING THE ECOLOGICAL CITY

1. ENGINEERING THE ECOLOGICAL CITY Presented by Greg Allen Credit: Wall-e, 2008

2. WHY WE NEED TO ENGINEER THE ECOLOGICAL CITY Our civilization is based on MAXIMIZING consumption of natural resources, manipulating matter and biology, and discharging waste. The City is habitat for most of humanity and the organizational hub for this parasitic and toxic relationship with the biosphere. ALL essentials and luxuries are garnered by fossil fuels which will soon be unusable. The design problem is to restructure the City so as to conform to the Natural Step principles. We are short on TIMEandENERGY AVAILABILITY.

4. 1 All super fields in decline 2 New discoveries peaked 20 years ago 3 Demands expect to increase while production may decline soon 4 Prices tripled in 3 years already impacting transportation sector

5. { world oil production plateau }

6. { world oil production plateau }

7. 1Production on decline since 2003 2 Industries like fertilizer and plastics moving off shore 3 LNG and unconventional oil production insufficient to avoid fall

8. { North America natural gas past peak}

9. 1 Entering decline and lower quality 2 Clean coal oxymoron, increases CO2 3 Transportation limitations

10. 1 Aging power stations dependent on declining fuel sources 2 Demand rising with shift to heat pumps, electric vehicles, rising cooling loads 3 Transmission, distribution system susceptible to overload

13. A long way off … think SOLAR

15. { Fueling the Economy}

17. “ If we don’t change our energy system in a radical way in the next ten years, the wheel will come off. ” - FatihBirol, Chief Economist, IEA, 2007

18. THE LENS: TERRAFORMING THE CITY Source: http://www.tbulin35.com/mars_landscape.jpg Source: http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&tab=wl&q=calgary

19. THE PARADIGM SHIFT: FROM HIERARCHY TO HOLARCHY Source: http://www.maxim-tours.com/images/pyramids2.jpg http://www.sethwhite.org/images/pole2004/the%20dome/the%20dome.jpg The centre is everywhere, mutual exchange between and within scales with local autonomy that creates resilience

20. SCOPE: AUTONOMOUS, SELF-MAINTAINING LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS

21. BIOREGIONAL VISION Diagram of exchange (mountain + city)

22. BIOREGIONAL VISION: LIFE

23. BIOREGIONAL VISION: MATTER

24. BIOREGIONAL VISION: ENERGY

25. BIOREGIONAL VISION: EXCHANGE

26. URBAN VISION

27. URBAN VISION: LIFE

28. URBAN VISION: MATTER

29. URBAN VISION: ENERGY

30. URBAN VISION: EXCHANGE

31. PRECINCT VISION

32. PRECINCT VISION: LIFE

33. PRECINCT VISION: MATTER

34. PRECINCT VISION: ENERGY

35. PRECINCT VISION: EXCHANGE

36. BUILDING VISION

37. BUILDING VISION: LIFE

38. BUILDING VISION: MATTER

39. BUILDING VISION: ENERGY

40. BUILDING VISION: EXCHANGE