Português - "[...] stakeholders should work towards creating a city that makes space for modern transportation, business and culture [...] That means desegregating development specialities like housing, transportation and commercial development and focusing instead on the interconnectedness between each of those domains. In that sense, the biggest challenge in sustainable urban development is reconfiguring the mental architecture of officials, planners and all of the other professionals involved in a city’s transformation. The key to improving the quality of city life is creating “urban diversity.” This means promoting diversity in the types and sizes of businesses and business spaces, in cultural activities and institutions as well as economic diversity. Like genetic diversity in the natural world, diversity in an urban context builds resilience throughout the city’s systems. [...] how [...] size influences quality of life in the city. [...] urban production systems [...] will be more personalized and connected. [...] Professionals should focus just as much on facilitating the almost infinite number of small projects that arise from civil society. [...] Modest projects deployed en masse will create a network of urban territories that are more sustainable and more livable. This is a human recipe for creating the cities of the future" (Renk, 2013).
Keywords: civil society engagement,
collective intelligence,
differences, urban fabric,
diversity
Português:
diversidade urbana
Renk, Alain. Urban Diversity: Cities Of Differences Create Different Cities: What does "sustainability" really mean? A forward-looking French architect offers his reflections as part of Worldcrunch Impact: Smarter Cities, November 12, 2013. Available from <
https://worldcrunch.com/smarter-cities-1/urban-diversity-cities-of-differences-create-different-cities >. access on 8 July
2022.
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GregorioIvanoff - 08 Jul 2022
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