Eco-districts: Test Beds for Technology and Infrastructure Innovation and Linking Mitigation and Adaptation

Joan Fitzgerald Professor of Urban and Public Policy

Northeastern University | School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs

Vauban “eco-district” Freiburg

Northeastern University | School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs

Vauban “eco-district” Freiburg

Hammarby “closed loop” model

Storm Water

Hammarby Sjöstad

Hammarby Sjöstad

District Heat

Hammarby Sjöstad

Three Phases of Malmö’s Western Harbour

What is District-level Sustainability?

• An eco-district? • Application of multiple climate action

measures and district-level systems at a scale bigger than a building but smaller than the entire city.

Does District-level Sustainability

• Incorporate the “three E’s” (equity, economy, ecology) of sustainability, demonstrating that they could be more fully incorporated city-wide?

• Demonstrate the feasibility of technologies and strategies that could allow a city to meet goals of climate action plan if implemented city-wide?

• Foster a culture of city planning that breaks down silos that can limit achieving climate action goals and allow organizational learning to take place?

From upper-middle class enclave to low-income redevelopment

Building Resilient Boston Partnership Resilience Report Card

Joan Fitzgerald jo.fitzgerald@neu.edu

Resilience Research Team

• Jane Amidon, Architecture and Landscape Urbanism

• Matt Eckelman, Civil & Environmental Engineering

• David Fallon, Architecture • Joan Fitzgerald, Urban and Public Policy • Michelle Laboy, Architecture • Matthias Ruth, Public Policy and Civil & Env. Eng.

Eco-districts &

Building Resilient Boston Partnership Joan Fitzgerald

jo.fitzgerald@neu.edu