The Living and Regenerative City
Perhaps it’s time for a radical rethink of our relationship to the city and to the living world with it!
For a long time, urban spaces were designed with a view to controlling and separation from nature. Natural elements were relegated to being ornamental, nuisances that need to be controlled or functional elements. This one-sided vision has not only impoverished our environments, it has also created a disconnect between humans and their natural surroundings.
The regenerative city calls for a paradigm shift.
We should rethink our relationship with the living world, and see ourselves no longer as masters of our environment, but as players among others in a complex, interconnected ecosystem.
Imagine societies where the health of ecosystems, social health and human health are linked, where resilience matters more than performance, where sharing and mutual aid replace overexploitation and competition. Cities where ecological corridors matter as much as our mobility, where buildings and infrastructures are designed to welcome and encourage biodiversity.
Such a vision implies a thorough transformation of our urban and architectural practices. We are no longer talking about simply “greening” our cities, but rather designing them as ecosystems in their own right, where each element – people, water, biomass, etc. – has its place and role to play. If we treat the city as a living organism, this approach to urban metabolism allows us to develop regulatory mechanisms similar to those found in nature.
The benefits are far-reaching: cities will be more resilient, biodiversity will flourish, and the living environment will be healthier and more pleasant for all living things – human and non-human alike.
The regenerative city is not a distant utopia, but an opportunity to reinvent our practices and find a new way of inhabiting our planet.
This Trend Note, “The living and regenerative city,” seeks to explore the contribution of the regenerative approach to real estate and urban projects. With the help of concrete examples, feedback, studies and expert contributions, we explore the main levers and best practices that can be implemented to integrate into our projects the conditions that allow life to flourish, and that will ensure that our cities really are living.
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