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Climate Change and Urban Areas, UCL, London, 3-4
April 2006
Re-inventing Urbanity for Sustainability A Few
Remarks
John Schellnhuber
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What is the City of the (Sustainable) Future?
The Ideal City in 1470 Piero della Francesca
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The Phoenix Metropolitan Area
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Energy generated by source in Arizona, 2000
Renewables lt1
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Vulnerable Coastal Megacity Mumbai
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PATRONAGE
Prof. Dr. Qiu Boaxing Deputy Minister of
Construction
Prof. Klaus Töpfer United Nations Environment
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PRESIDENCY
Prof. Dr. Gu Binglin
Prof. Dr. Kurt Kutzler
ORGANIZER
Tsinghua University Beijing
Berlin University of Technology
KEY NOTE SPEAKER
Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact Research
Prof. Dr. Wu Liangyong Master of Planning Beijing
GUEST SPEAKERS
Prof. Eduard Bru Prof. Kees Christiaanse Prof.
Dr. Norbert Fisch Prof. Dr. Thomas Jocher Florian
Mausbach Prof. Matthias Sauerbruch Prof. Dr. Dr.
M. Jörg Schlaich Dr. Eva Sternfeld Prof. Dr.
Wouter Vanstiphout Prof. Natalie de Vries Prof.
Zhang Lufeng
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International Conference on Urban
Sustainability Beijing, 11 13 October 2006
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• CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
• Impact of Large Events on the Urban Future
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• II. Historic City Preservation and Culture
  Identity
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• III. Urban Development and Infrastructure
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• IV. Energy Efficient Architecture and Resource
  Saving Building

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Question 6 Engineering urban systems how can
cities grow whilst also reducing vulnerability
and emissions?
Tyndall Centre, Phase 2
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Question 6 Objectives

• Develop and demonstrate a downscaling methodology
  for generating scenarios of urban economic
  indicators and spatial attributes that are
  consistent with variables in coupled global
  economic and climate simulations (year 2).
• Develop and demonstrate a city-scale greenhouse
  gas emissions accounting tool (year 2).
• Adapt and apply methods for city-scale climate
  impacts assessment (year 2).
• Evaluate, in city-scale assessments, strategies
  and technologies for reducing climate impacts and
  greenhouse gas emissions (year 3).

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Partners

• Newcastle Coordination, Decision analysis
  framework, GIS and land use simulation, flooding
  and water resources impacts and adaptation
• Manchester City-scale emissions accounting
• Leeds/Loughborough Transport
• UCL Land use simulation, London datasets
• Cambridge Economic and demographic scenarios
• Hadley Centre/CRU/CIAS Downscaled climate
  variables
• LSHTM health impacts
• BGS building subsidence

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CIAM global integrated assessment
E3MG socio-economic variables at a national scale
Low to intermediate complexity climate models
Economic downscaling
Climate downscaling
City-scale climate variables
Socio-economic variables at a city scale
Land use analysis and simulation
Scenarios of urban attributes and form
Assembly of impact assessment modules
Engagement with stakeholders to co-develop
adaptation and mitigation options
City emissions accounting tool
Emissions estimates for strategic options
Impacts estimates for strategic options
Spatial-temporal portfolio analysis
Spatial-temporal portfolios for adaptation and
mitigation