Circular London

Williams, Jo

doi:10.4324/9780429490613-6

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“…This is unsurprising since it was not designed for this purpose. Nevertheless, there does appear to be a tendency amongst those aspiring to become Circular Cities to adopt the RESOLVE framework and focus on businesses (industrial and commercial) rather than more strategic urban resource management solutions (Williams, 2017).…”

Section: Current Conceptualisation Of Circular Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Circular cities

2019

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A circular approach to the way in which we manage the resources consumed and produced in cities – materials, energy, water and land – will significantly reduce the consumption of finite resources globally. It will also help to address urban problems including resource security, waste disposal, greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, heating, drought and flooding. Taking a circular approach can also tackle many other socio-economic problems afflicting cities, for example, providing access to affordable accommodation, expanding and diversifying the economic base, building more engaged and collaborative communities in cities. Thus it has great potential to improve our urban living environments. To date, the industrial ecologists and economists have tended to dominate the circularity debate, focusing on closed-loop industrial systems and circular economy (circular businesses and systems of provision). In this paper I investigate why the current state-of-the-art conceptualisation for circular economy (RESOLVE) is inadequate when applied to a city. Through this critique and a broader review of the literature I identify the principles and components which are lacking from the circular economy (CE) conceptualisation when applied to a city. I then use this to develop my own definition and conceptualisation of a circular approach to urban resource management.

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Section: Current Conceptualisation Of Circular Economymentioning

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Circular cities

2019

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“…We limited our search to articles that are peer-reviewed and written in English. The query returned 262 articles, which we classified according to a matrix we developed leveraging existing circular built environment frameworks of urban planning, architecture, and civil engineering. , Further, we adapted the matrix to include the terminology of material stock studies, as proposed by Lanau et al…”

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“…There are two main approaches to circular cities. The first and most common approach is to make urban economies as circular as possible and thus see circular cities as a sum of circular businesses . This approach disregards contextual factors like infrastructure capacity, human resources, or the interaction with neighboring places.…”

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“…The first and most common approach is to make urban economies as circular as possible and thus see circular cities as a sum of circular businesses. 20 This approach disregards contextual factors like infrastructure capacity, human resources, or the interaction with neighboring places. The second approach is to (re)contextualize the industries, i.e., considering local assets and interactions with other places they depend on (e.g., neighboring regions).…”

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How Can Material Stock Studies Assist the Implementation of the Circular Economy in Cities?

Wuyts

Miatto

Khumvongsa

et al. 2022

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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City and regional planners have recently started exploring a circular approach to urban development. Meanwhile, industrial ecologists have been designing and refining methodologies to quantify and locate material flows and stocks within systems. This Perspective explores to which extent material stock studies can contribute to urban circularity, focusing on the built environment. We conducted a critical literature review of material stock studies that claim they contribute to circular cities. We classified each article according to a matrix we developed leveraging existing circular built environment frameworks of urban planning, architecture, and civil engineering and included the terminology of material stock studies. We found that, out of 271 studies, only 132 provided information that could be relevant to the implementation of circular cities, albeit to vastly different degrees of effectiveness. Of these 132, only 26 reported their results in a spatially explicit manner, which is fundamental to the effective actuation of circular city strategies. We argue that future research should strive to provide spatial data, avoid being siloed, and increase engagement with other sociopolitical fields to address the different needs of the relevant stakeholders for urban circularity.

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“…Over the last few years, the deepening relationship between the CE and the ‘urban’ has become readily apparent ( Bassens et al, 2020 ; Keblowski et al, 2020 ; Savini, 2019 ; Williams, 2021 ). In road maps, reports, and project guides from leading CE organizations, global corporations and regional governments, the message is clear: ‘our cities of the future will be circular’ ( EMF, 2020 ; WEF, 2018 ).…”

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Unbuilding the city: Deconstruction and the circular economy in Vancouver

Lynch

2022

Environ Plan A

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Globally, the construction, renovation, and demolition sectors are increasingly responsible for growing resource demand and structural waste, even given progress in energy efficient technologies, ‘green’ building design, and local planning regulations. In response, the Circular Economy has become a popular agenda in the construction, renovation, and demolition sector as it offers a new model that not only maximizes materials reuse and recovery but also reframes urban systems and the built environment in a closed-loop (cradle-to-cradle) paradigm. In particular, popular visions of the Circular Economy promote, among other actions, ‘optimizing’ the end-of-the-life of buildings and their materials. Deconstruction (i.e. piece-by-piece demolition) is one key optimization strategy that has received increasing, yet limited, attention by researchers. This paper traces the development of an incipient deconstruction sector in Vancouver, focusing on the possibilities and challenges of deconstruction and material recovery practices as viable strategies for a transformative Circular Economy. I investigate two related aspects: first, the emerging policy landscape surrounding green demolition, and second, the development of ‘unbuilding’ practices and more formal ‘Deconstruction Hubs’. Overall, the paper finds that while these developments represent fundamental steps towards a more sustainable built environment, there remain a number of significant social, political and economic limitations that must be confronted if we are to meet the growing demands for more radical sustainability and ‘circularity’ not only in Canadian construction, renovation, and demolition sectors, but across Canadian cities and beyond.

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