Climate Urbanism and Resilience
Simultaneously with the energy transition and environmental regeneration, which, even if fully implemented now, will only have an impact in the medium and long term, we need to transform our cities and territories and change the way we build them quickly, removing as few people as possible from their communities. Today, our cities are covered in concrete and asphalt, which prevent water from penetrating the ground, increasing its accumulation and velocity. It is urgent that climate adaptation be achieved through the use of multifunctional urban resilience infrastructures, using the natural elements of terrain, vegetation, and water as construction technologies combined with the precise application of hard materials, such as concrete. This allows water to penetrate the ground, be absorbed by vegetation capable of swelling, slowing its velocity, and accumulate in areas designated for flooding, along with constructed drainage networks or sea-level rise protections, such as parts of public green spaces, while increasing the number of trees to reduce urban temperature and pollution. These same infrastructures must also be capable of storing water, enabling it to be squeezed back to the surface during prolonged droughts. They must be coupled with investments in water reuse, sanitation, urban reforestation, and clean energy, integrating adaptation, mitigation, and inclusion. The synthesis of these practices, along with the Social Urbanism of Medellín and new resilience technologies developed in Parque Sitiê by a team from Harvard and MIT with the community of Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro, is called Climate Urbanism. A strategy developed by the creators of these initiatives in partnership with leaders from the Bloomberg administration in NYC, this same group developed a tool for urban anticipation in the Rio de Janeiro favela: 4D Modeling technology.
Technical Sheet:
> Pedro Henrique HF de Christo: Principal +D, 4D and Coordinator of the Harvard Climate Urban Resilience Brazil Group
> Diane Davis: Charles Dyer Norton; Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Co-coordinator of the Harvard Climate Urban Resilience Brazil Group
> Carlos Leite: Director of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at Mckenzie Presbyterian University and Coordinator of the Harvard Climate Urban Resilience Brazil Group
> Elena Tudela: ORU-Office of Urban Resilience
> Paulo Artaxo: IPCC-UN and CEAS-USP
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