O Prof. Timothy Beatley trabalha com o conceito da RESILIÊNCIA URBANA, conceito este que assenta na prevenção do risco no planeamento urbano, da mitigação do risco nas intervenções durante catástrofes e eventos extremos e da regeneração dos sistemas urbanos. Trata-se de um conceito extremamente actual, poderoso e politicamente oportuno. A sua visão é contagiosa e geradora de consensos.

1. Green Urbanism:
Design for Resilient and Biophilic Cities
Prof. Timothy Beatley, UVA School of Architecture

3. Future Cities
―The cities of the 21st Century are
where human destiny will be played
out, and where the future of the
biosphere will be determined. There
will be no sustainable world without
sustainable cities.‖
--Herbert Girardet

4. What is Green Urbanism?
Resilient
Livable
Distinctive
Affordable
Healthy
Intergenerational
Small Ecological Footprint Biodiverse, Biophilic

5. What Does Green Urbanism Look Like?
Compact and
Commitments to Transit Walkable
Renewable Energy
Solar Cities
Local Sustainable
Food
Zero Waste
Circular
Metabolism
Green and Natural

6. Implications for Designing Cities?

7. The ―Melbourne Miracle‖
―Of all the things a city can do to improve
its environment, Melbourne has done
almost everything: more residents and
students, more ‗people‘ streets, squares,
lanes and parks, wider sidewalks, quality
materials, active shop frontages, fine
furnishings, new street trees and public art
programs.‖ –Jan Gehl
Impressive results…ten-fold increase
in downtown population since 1980s,
number of café seats rose 275% in
ten years, 40% increase in foot
traffic, from 2 outdoor cafes in 1973
to 356 in 2004…

9. Molly Dilworth’s Cool Water, Hot Island

10. Energy Efficiency Btu/Passenger Miles
Automobiles, SUVs, light trucks 5,255
Commuter Rail 1,612
Heavy Rail 911
Light Rail 1,152

18. Distributed
Systems
Harvesting
Current Solar
Income
Vastra Hamnen, Malmö

19. Barcelona’s Solar Budget:
Incoming solar: 14.5MJ/m2/day,
1470kWh/m2/year
28 times electric consumption of city
Sustainability & innovative elements:
Infrastructures and biotope
Ecoparc and District Heating and Cooling
The incinerator plant will be transformed into an Ecoparc facility
District Heating and Cooling is based on the use of the steam generated
The project involved a 3,5 km network: it will supply hot and cold water to
the buildings in and around the area of the Forum 2004
Environmental values
• Energy efficiency improvement: 32% reduction in primary energy

20. Building Resilience and Passive Survivability
Holy Cross,
New Orleans
Resilience Features: located in the high ground close to the
river and levee (it is about 6 feet above sea level; pier
foundation system to address weak soils and possible lifting
from foundation from bouancy during flooding; first floor
elevated another 3 feet above grade; rigid foam insulation
that is less easily damaged by water and dries out more
Holy Cross Green Homes, New Orleans
quickly; insulation placed on exterior (between sheathing and
siding so it can replaced if necessary without having to
damage the interior; paperless drywall on the groundfloor to
preclude or limit mold growth; mechanical equipment and
electrical switch box on second floor to reduce risk of water
damage; windows and solar panels rated for impact from
hurricane force winds.

22. Vauban’s Plus-Energy Homes

23. North Terrace Solar Precinct
Adelaide Solar City

24. Sydney Green
Transformers

25. Windpods
Graeme Attey

26. New Forms of Urban Infrastructure
Kogarah Town Square
Sydney, Australia

27. Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm
Circular Urban Metabolism

28. Masdar City, Abu Dhabi

30. From Rooftop
To Region

31. Melbourne’s CH2

32. Bioregional Supply Lines

33. Glocal Cities

34. New Ideas for
Community Sharing

35. Rethinking Food and Agriculture
Joel Salatin, Polyface Farm

36. Butterworks Farm
Organic Corn with
Vermont Maple BBQ dip
Klingers Bakery
Wheat Toast
Chapelle Farm
Potatoes
Vermont Smoke and Maple Meadow
Cure Maple Sausage Farm eggs

37. Chicago City Farm
Ken Dunn and Kristine Geiber

38. Montreal Rooftop
Gardens Project

39. Ismael Hautecoeur

40. Eva-Lanxmeer, Netherlands

41. Kipp Nash
Community Roots, Boulder

42. What is a Biophilic City?
An Outdoor/Outside Importance Given to Protecting and
Oriented City Restoring Nature
Nature Education and Nature
Nudging Green Neighborhoods: Every
Neighborhood Has Ample Access to
Diverse and Multi-layered Contact Outdoor Nature
with Local Nature (e.g. including
sound, smell, other sensory
experiences) Fosters Connections to Local
Landscapes, History, Culture,
Unique Aspects of Place
Functional/Spatial Hierarchy:
Connected Systems of Nature and
Green Infrastructure
Building Natural Social Capital

43. Biophilia
“…the innately emotional
affiliation of human beings to
other living organisms. Innate
means hereditary and hence part
of ultimate human nature.”
--E.O. Wilson

44. On the Therapy of Walking
in Nature:
Study by British mental health charity MIND
―The new research…shows green exercise has
particular benefits for people experiencing mental
distress. It directly benefits mental health (lowering
stress and boosting self-esteem), improves physical
health (lowering blood pressure and helping to tackle
obesity), provides a source of meaning and purpose,
helps to develop skills and form social connections.‖

45. Does Nature Help Us To Be Better
Human Beings?
Nature Makes Us More Generous!
―Those more immersed in natural settings
were more generous, whereas those
immersed in non-natural settings were less
likely to give. Feelings of autonomy and
nature relatedness were responsible for the
willingness to give to others, indicating that
these experiences facilitated a willingness
to promote others‘ interests as well as
one‘s own. In other words, autonomy and
relatedness encouraged participants to
focus on their intrinsic values for
relationships and community rather than on
personal gain.‖ --Weinstein, Przybylski,
and Ryan, 2009 (Univ of Rochester)

46. ―I like to play indoors better,
‗cause that‘s where all the
electrical outlets are‖
--San Diego fourth-grader

47. We Have Become Profoundly
Disconnected from the Nature Around Us

48. Ability to Name?

49. Ability to Name?
0%
0%
100%

50. ―Can you imagine a satisfactory love
relationship with someone whose name you
do not know? I can‘t. It is perhaps the
quintessentially human characteristic that we
cannot know or love what we have not
named. Names are passwords to our hearts,
and it is there, in the end, that we will find the
room for a whole world.‖ –Paul Gruchow

51. Largest Moth in the
World?
Giant Wood Moth!

52. 1. 3.
Blue Urbanism?
2. 4.

53. Charlottesville Sound Map
Soundscapes as Profound
Dimensions of Place

54. Charlottesville Sound Map
Soundscapes as Profound
Dimensions of Place

55. Charlottesville Sound Map
What is This?
Soundscapes as Profound
Dimensions of Place

56. Charlottesville Sound Map
Eastern Screech Owl
Soundscapes as Profound
Dimensions of Place

57. Networks of
Interconnected Nature

58. Akerselva, Oslo

59. Towards a Biophilic Urbanism

60. º
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62. Free Range Kids!

67. Minneapolis Public Library

68. Nature in Unexpected Places

69. Caixa Forum Museum in
Madrid

71. Jane Martin
Founder, PLANT*SF
(Permeable Landscapes As
Neighborhood Treasures)

74. Developing Nature’s
Social Capital

76. Helena
Klangemo
Nature Guides,
Stockholm

77. Planning Zoöpolis
―To allow for the emergence of an ethic, practice and politics of caring for
animals and nature, we need to renaturalize cities and invite animals back
in—and in the process re-enchant the city.‖ –Jennifer Wolch

79. ―Using projections of species‘
distributions for future climate
scenarios, we assess
extinction rates for sample
regions that cover some 20%
of the Earth‘s terrestrial
c surface…We predict on the
basis of mid-range climate-
warming scenarios for 2050,
that 15-37% of species in our
sample of regions and taxa will
be ‗committed to extinction.‘‖
--Thomas et al, Nature, 2004
Left: Boyd's forest dragon
(Hypsilurus boydii)

80. Filming “The Nature of Cities” Documentary

81. Green Urbanism:
Design for Resilient and Biophilic Cities
Prof. Tim Beatley,
beatley@virginia.edu