USP2: Urban World Systems

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USP2 Urban World Systems Winter 2006 Global
City-Regions, New Regionalism and Sustainability
Science    
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Identifies four interlocked, components of
sustainability science Highlights the REGION as
the most amenable geographic scale for
integrating theory and practice
Source National Research Council (1999) Our
Common Journey A Transition Toward
Sustainability.
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Sustainability Science and Ecological Regionalism

• The major threats and opportunities of the
  sustainability transition are not only multiple,
  cumulative, and interactive, but also
  place-based. In other words, it is in specific
  regions with distinctive social, and ecological
  attributes that the critical threats to
  sustainability emerge, and where a successful
  transition will need to be based. (National
  Research Council 1999 285)

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• First and foremost, effective RD systems for
  promoting sustainability will need to be
  structured so that they are driven by the most
  pressing problems of sustainable development as
  defined by stakeholders in those problems.
  (Clark 2002)
• Clark, William C. 2002. Research Systems for a
  Transition Toward Sustainability. In Challenges
  of a Changing Earth. Proceedings of the Global
  Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, NL,
  10-13 July 2001. Edited by W. Steffen, J. Jäger,
  D. Carson, and C. Bradshaw. Berlin
  Springer-Verlag.

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San Diego- Tijuana City-Region

Over 300 city-regions around the world have 1
million or more inhabitantsThe US-Mexico Border
region has 14 rapidly growing twin-cities
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San Diego-Tijuana City-Region
Sustainability Science New Regionalism Infor
mation Visualization Technology Ethics and
Env. Justice
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• New Regionalism/ Institutionalism
• Wheeler 2000 defines the new regionalism in
  terms of five features
• a focus on the metropolitan region as the unit of
  analysis and action,
• a renewed emphasis on physical planning, urban
  design, and place,
• a broadened agenda including environmental,
  equity, and livability issues as well as economic
  development,
• a normative, action-oriented approach aimed at
  addressing regional problems, and
• a widened range of research methods including
  qualitative as well as quantitative tools (p.
  1).
• The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
  Development issued a report, State of the Cities
  2000 Megaforces Shaping the Future of the
  Nations Cities with a major recommendation
  stating that the answer to achieving livable
  communities lies in regional cooperation HUD
  2000.
• New Institutionalism Examines the interactive
  relationship of formal and informal sets of
  rules, attitudes, beliefs and expectations in the
  context of public policy, decision-making, and
  civic engagement in development processes.
  ---this brings into play a more sophisticated
  view of governance.

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Drivers of the Metropolitan Regionalism

• A survey by the National Association of Regional
  Councils has found that the number of regional
  efforts is growing in the U.S. A recent report
  by the National Academy of Public Administration
  (NAPA) argues that the renewed interest in
  "thinking regionally" has to do with five current
  challenges
• Developing a workforce preparing and linking
  people with jobs in rapidly growing suburbs.
• Competing economically building world class
  research facilities, transportation systems, and
  supplier networks.
• Quality of life protecting the environment,
  controlling traffic congestion and injuries, and
  preserving safe, healthy communities.
• Paying for growth making wise investments in
  public facilities in growing suburbs.
• Redevelopment revitalizing inner cities and
  first tier suburbs. (cited in Livable Communities
  2000 20-21)

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The U.S.-Mexico border region is shared by two
nations, ten states (four in the U.S. and six in
Mexico), and 64 municipalities (39 in Mexico and
25 in the U.S.). There are 26 U.S. federally
recognized Native American tribes in the border
region, which range from 9 to 17,000 members.
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Federated project data base BiosphereHydrosph
ereLithosphereAtmosphereHumans as
components of ecosystems
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RWBC hosting SANDAGs Regional Planning
Committee, May 5, 2003
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May 29, 2003 RWBC EXPO
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MISSION STATEMENT As a partnership among federal,
state, local, and U.S. tribal governments, the
mission of the Border 2012 Program is To
protect public health and the environment in the
U.S.-Mexico border region, consistent with the
principles of sustainable development. Border
residents suffer disproportionately from many
environmental health problems, including
water-borne diseases such as hepatitis A and
respiratory problems such as asthma. The elderly
and children are most at risk. Tribal communities
and residents of some unincorporated communities
also are at greater risk because of inadequate or
non-existent water supplies.
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SANDAGs Regional Information System (RIS) SANDAG
defines its RIS as a fully integrated system of
data, computer hardware and software to process
the data, and the staff to perform the data
processing and analysis (SANDAG 2000). San
Diego Interactive Mapping page
http//www.sangis.org/sangis/intmaps/  Regional
Economic Development Information (REDI) System
http//cart.sandag.cog.ca.us/redi/ Mapping
SANDAG's Demographic and Economic Databases
http//cart.sandag.cog.ca.us/demog/default.htm Sa
n Diego Industrial Economic Clusters
http//cart.sandag.cog.ca.us/cluster/ San Diego
/ Tijuana Demographic Atlas http//cart.sandag.cog
.ca.us/sdtij/intro.html   Borderbase
http//www.borderbase.org/   NOTE The RIS is
described in detail in a PDF file titled Regional
Information System Overview. The report can be
downloaded from SANDAGs website at
http//www.sandag.cog.ca.us/whats_new/publications
/general/regional_info_system_2000.pdf.  
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