TransFEWmation: Towards Design-led Food-Energy-Water Systems for Future Urbanization

This book discusses a spectrum of approaches to designing the food-energy-water nexus at different spatial-urban scales. The book offers a framework for working on the FEW-nexus in a design-led context and integrates the design of urban neighbourhoods and regions with methodologies how to simultaneously engaging residents and stakeholders and evaluating the propositions in a FEW-print, measuring the environmental impact of the different designs. The examples are derived from on the ground practices in Sydney, Tokyo, Detroit, Amsterdam and Belfast.

Auteur
Prof. Dr. ir. Rob Roggema is Professor Spatial Transformations in the Research Centre for the Built Environment 'NoorderRuimte', Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, the Netherlands. He is Landscape Architect and an international design expert in the field of sustainable urbanism, climate adaptation, energy landscapes and urban agriculture. He held positions at several universities in the Netherlands and Australia, provinces and municipalities, and design firms.
Rob developed the Swarm Planning concept, a dynamic way to design the city, to prepare it for future climate change. Rob's research focuses on the reciprocal city, investigating resilience, adaptation and circularity in urban design. Recent design concepts Rob has conceived are the Double Defence, a proposition for a second row of barrier islands, protecting the Dutch coast against storm surges; the Floodable Landscape for a region under threat of flooding; Bushfire Resilient Bendigo, in which the design anticipates bushfires through creating a protective shield and slowly moving the town away from the fire; the FoodRoofRio, a roof garden with an aquaponic system growing food for the entire family in 'Cantagalo' favela, Rio de Janeiro; and the Sydney Barrier Reef, a refuge for nature fleeing the Great Barrier Reef, which is at risk of disappearing as result of bleeching and simultaneously protects the highly valued real estate of the Sydney coast against future cyclones.

Rob has facilitated and designed over 30 design charrettes across the globe in which citizens, academics, governments and industries are indulged in the design process of complex spatial problems. He has written three books about climate adaptation and design, four about urban agriculture and one about design charrettes. Furthermore, he wrote books about the FoodRoofRio and Design after Tsunami in Japan. He is series editor of the book series 'Contemporary Urban Design Thinking' and editor in chief of the journal 'Smart and Sustainable Built Environments (SASBE)'.

Contenu

Part 1. Framework

Chapter 1

The Moveable Nexus, Transforming Thinking on Cities Rob Roggema and Wanglin Yan

Chapter 2

A moveable Nexus: framework for food-energy-water design and planning

Rob Roggema, Wanglin Yan and Greg Keeffe

Chapter 3

M-NEX methodology: a design-led approach to the FEW-Nexus

Rob Roggema

Part II Design for food in M-Nex

Chapter 4

Nature driven planning for the FEW-Nexus in Western Sydney,

Rob Roggema and Stewart Monti

Chapter 5

The flexible scaffold: design praxis in the FEW-nexus, Greg Keeffe and Sean Cullen

Chapter 6

Spatialised method for analysing the impact of food,

Sean Cullen and Greg Keeffe

Chapter 7

Synergetic planning and designing with urban FEW-flows: lessons from Rotterdam

Nico Tillie, Rob Roggema

Chapter 8

Le Fouture de Groningen; towards transformational food-positive landscapes, Rob Roggema

Chapter 9

Mapping the FEW-Nexus across cascading scales: contexts for Detroit from region to city.

Geoffrey Thün, Kathy Velikov and Tithi Sanyal

Chapter 10

Redesigning the Urban Food Life through the Participatory Living Lab Platform - Practices in Suburban Areas of the Tokyo Metropolitan Region

Wanglin Yan and Shun Nakayama

Chapter 11

The Regenerative City - positive opportunities of coupling urban energy transition with added values to people and environment

Andy van den Dobbelsteen

Chapter 12

Pig farming vs. Solar farming: exploring novel opportunities for the energy transition,

Nick ten Caat, Nico Tillie and Martin Tenpierik

Chapter 13

Proposal for a database of food-energy-water-nexus projects,

Will Galloway, Kevin Logan and Wanglin Yan

Chapter 14

Linking urban food system and environmental sustainability for the resilience of the cities: the case of Tokyo

Bijon Kumer Mitra, Ami Pareek, Tomoko Takeda, Pham Ngoc Bao, Nobue Amanuma, Wanglin Yan and Rajib Shaw

Chapter 15

TransFEWmotion: designing urban metabolism as an M-NEX

Rob Roggema, Wanglin Yan and Greg Keeffe

**Index