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This article suggests that to adequately tackle climate breakdown, urban planning
needs to move beyond sustainability to incorporate regenerative development
frameworks. Key to this is activating and increasing citizen participation in a fractallike,
multi scaled, community-led, bottom up planning process, where active citizens
design, construct and are part of the futures they desire for their territories. 2019’s
declarations of climate emergency show that decades of sustainable development have
not worked. The Sustainable Development Goals are a positive step, but
sustainability’s dependence on economic growth is problematic. Recognising Earth’s
limits, this article builds on degrowth ideas and doughnut economic frameworks to
examine the role of community-led urban transitions in catalysing a regenerative
world, where ecocities are the normative goal of contemporary cities. Challenges in
scaling the Global Ecovillage Network’s process to large cities are identified and some
radical governance experiments examined. Attempting to bridge activism and
academia, a transdisciplinary participative action research method is used to develop
a Communities of Practice ecosystem to support an eco-social just transition. This
work contributes to the European Network for Community-Led Initiatives on Climate
Change and Sustainability, ECOLISE, the Horizon 2020 project UrbanA investigating
Sustainable and Just Cities, and the Communities for Future action platform enabling
translocal communities to connect, co-create a knowledge commons and help shape
policy. Insights from Lisbon are examined with three community-led initiatives; Bela
Flor, Ajuda and Marvila. These processes are still at the margins, but could soon
become core activities of regenerative urban planning. Re-Making our cities is
everyone’s business.
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Keywords
Regenerative development community-led initiatives ecocities urban transitions communities of practice degrowth
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Duncan Crowley, Teresa Marat-Mendes, Roberto Falanga, Thomas Henfrey e Gil Penha-Lopes, «Towards a necessary regenerative urban planning», Cidades [Online], Sp21 | 2021
Publisher
Dinâmia’CET-IUL