The urban system framework

Langdon Morris and Farah Naz
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Langdon Morris: Senior Partner, InnovationLabs, USA
Farah Naz: Director of Innovation and ESG, AECOM Middle East and Africa, UAE

Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, 2023, vol. 16, issue 2, 126-138

Abstract: Cities and their surrounding regions are exceptionally complex systems where human needs and human genius come together to invent the future of civilisation. In the current situation of the worsening climate crisis, cities are also an exceptionally important creative resource in helping us learn to live in an entirely new way — to live ‘net zero’. If we take net zero as our goal, what role can the city play in reaching it and how can we manage its vast complexity toward that end? In this paper the authors present a model of the city-as-a-system, detailing five of its key elements that must be proactively managed in an integrated manner to enable us to think through and manage this process of fundamental change.

Keywords: net zero; cities; climate change; urban; growth; governance; economics; design; master planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R00 Z33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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