The city, our greatest invention, will be at the center of solutions to global warming, public health, and economic development. The most recent U.N. IPCC report makes this clear: “Urban areas represent 67-72% of global emissions… How new cities and towns are designed, constructed, managed, and powered will lock-in behavior, lifestyles, and future urban GHG emissions.’’ Urban communities can lead in a bottom-up process that may be even more impactful than top-down government action. The City Science Summit explores a data-driven model for developing urban interventions that could dramatically reduce emissions while improving the quality of life and economic opportunities for residents. Deploying a high-performance model for cities at scale has become a societal imperative.
We explore this future in two parts:
Part 1
Learning from Kendall Square: From Innovation District to Innovation Community. The Kendall Square district is considered a world-class “innovation district,” but it functions poorly as a community. With little housing and few amenities, most workers commute each day, wasting time and energy, and leaving the area lifeless after hours. We will present hypothetical “thought experiment” scenarios that could dramatically reduce emissions while improving the livability and economic potential of the area, including deep retrofit of existing buildings, live-work symmetry for net-zero commuting, walkable access to amenities, hyper-efficient transformable housing, lightweight autonomous mobility, production of resources near the point of consumption, low-carbon diet, and high-density baseload electrical power.
Featuring Kent Larson and Norman Foster, Dava Newman, Senator Ed Markey, Luis Alonso, Ronan Doorley, Maitane Iruretagoyena, Naroa Coretti, Alex Berke, and Andres Rico.
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