{"id":143,"date":"2023-05-08T08:08:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T08:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/forma\/?p=143"},"modified":"2024-01-11T21:49:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T21:49:34","slug":"europes-urban-centers-provide-visions-of-smarter-greener-future-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/forma\/2023\/05\/08\/europes-urban-centers-provide-visions-of-smarter-greener-future-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s Urban Centers Provide Visions of Smarter, Greener Future Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/forma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/Europes-Urban-Centers-1-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/forma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/Europes-Urban-Centers-1-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/forma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/Europes-Urban-Centers-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/forma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/Europes-Urban-Centers-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/forma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/Europes-Urban-Centers-1.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This article was originally published on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/redshift.autodesk.com\/future-cities\/\">Redshift.<\/a><br>\u200d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Europe\u2019s future cities will be greener, more digital, and completely inclusive.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Paris has already done a lot to achieve this: The famous Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es is set to become a green space.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Vienna, too, has long been regarded as a pioneering smart city focusing on gender planning.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Medium-size cities in Germany are also serving as models for the future.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>To continue building future cities, it\u2019s crucial to use digital tools.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200d<br>Anne Hidalgo doesn\u2019t like cars. She wants cars\u2014and the exhaust fumes they produce\u2014out of her city. Instead, she wants more trees, parks, and bicycle lanes. As the Socialist Party mayor of Paris, she is not alone in wanting to turn her city green. Many politicians are pursuing major changes in light of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/clima\/policies\/strategies\/2030_en\">EU\u2019s goal<\/a>&nbsp;of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years, Hidalgo developed multiple initiatives to nudge Paris a step closer in this direction. Under her direction, the city has built and upgraded bicycle lanes, planted trees, and inspired designs to transform the famous Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es into&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/10\/paris-approves-plan-to-turn-champs-elysees-into-extraordinary-garden-anne-hidalgo\">a park<\/a>. Hidalgo advocates a \u201c15-minute city,\u201d in which residents can reach schools, doctors, grocery stores, theaters, offices, and green spaces within 15 minutes of leaving their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These initiatives mean Paris is a step closer to ending its smog problem. But smog isn\u2019t the only issue in one of the most densely populated cities in the world.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expatica.com\/fr\/housing\/renting\/renting-in-paris-102782\/#:~:text=options%20in%20Paris-,Overview%20of%20renting%20in%20Paris,London%20and%20some%20US%20cities.&amp;text=Rents%20are%20typically%20around%20%E2%82%AC,a%2040%20square%20meter%20apartment.\">Rent prices are high<\/a>, and affordable housing is a luxury. This dilemma is common to almost every metropolis in the world.<br>\u200d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/forma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2022\/08\/61d752dbe1d38b550ae4b226_2.20ColumnWidth700x500Arc_de_Triomphe_Champs-Elysees.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The famous Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, which leads to the Arc de Triomphe, will soon be lined with more trees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200d<br><strong>Future Cities\u2019 Vision: Less Traffic, More Space<\/strong><br>Despite the 2020 global surge in remote working, the UN&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/development\/desa\/en\/news\/population\/2018-revision-of-world-urbanization-prospects.html\">forecasts&nbsp;<\/a>that 68% of the world\u2019s population will be living in cities by 2050. As people continue to move to cities, the need for housing will grow\u2014while traffic will get worse\u2014as space becomes scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly, something needs to change. All over the world, designers are working on plans for future cities. For example, Japanese car manufacturer Toyota and Danish architecture firm BIG are planning the world\u2019s first&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.woven-city.global\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">programmable city<\/a>, dubbed Woven City, at the foot of Mount Fuji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Saudi Arabian government wants to build&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.neom.com\/en-us\/whatistheline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NEOM<\/a>, a roadless, car-free, entirely environmentally friendly city in the middle of the desert. A similar project is underway in the Chinese province of Hebei: The city of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.china-briefing.com\/news\/xiongan-new-area-beijing-tianjin-hebei\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Xiong\u2019an<\/a>&nbsp;has been designed to help reduce overcrowding in the nearby capital of Beijing and is intended to become a kind of green Silicon Valley.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sidewalklabs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sidewalk Labs<\/a>, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., had similar plans for Toronto, but the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/sidewalk-talk\/why-were-no-longer-pursuing-the-quayside-project-and-what-s-next-for-sidewalk-labs-9a61de3fee3a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">project<\/a>&nbsp;is currently on hold.<br>\u200d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/forma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2022\/08\/61d7538c85c97a5957ac452d_3.20ColumnWidth700x500_20200107_01_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Danish architectural firm BIG&#8217;s plans for the Woven City include native vegetation and wooden houses in the traditional Japanese architectural style. Courtesy of BIG.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200d<br><strong>A Model for the City of the Future &nbsp;<\/strong><br>Vienna is experimenting with future concepts, too. The city\u2019s urban planners aim to take a range of perspectives into account when it comes to quality of life, using a technique called gender planning. Local town planner Eva Kail has been advocating for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/womenmobilize.org\/we-have-to-bring-the-village-back-to-the-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gender planning<\/a>&nbsp;for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMost cities were essentially designed for men,\u201d Kail says, explaining that streets, traffic routing, and living spaces are ultimately based on the antiquated model of a breadwinner who drives to work in the morning and comes back in the evening. \u201cThe immediate living environment has taken little account of the realities of life for those with domestic and child-rearing responsibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is exactly what gender planning is changing. Streets that can easily be crossed with a stroller, as well as parks and daycare centers that can be reached on foot, are all part of the solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The results are clear: Vienna has ranked first on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wien.gv.at\/english\/politics\/international\/comparison\/mercer-study.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mercer\u2019s Quality of Living City Ranking<\/a>&nbsp;for several years straight. It has also beaten London to top the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandberger.com\/en\/Insights\/Publications\/Smart-City-Strategy-Index-Vienna-and-London-leading-in-worldwide-ranking.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Roland Berger Smart City Index<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVienna began looking at strategies for the future 10 years ago,\u201d says Florian Woller, an expert at Smart City Agency. The agency is a department of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbaninnovation.at\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Urban Innovation<\/a>, a think tank that monitors and analyzes global trends and developments in metropolitan areas. \u201cBack then, Vienna set a vision for where it wanted to be by 2030 and 2050,\u201d Woller says. \u201cThe first framework strategy from 2014 has since been updated to set new criteria.\u201d<br>\u200d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Intelligent Traffic Lights and Renewable Energy<\/strong><br>Vienna\u2019s targets are ambitious: Per-capita carbon-dioxide emissions from the transport sector must be reduced by 50% by 2030 and by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/sites\/default\/files\/resource\/LTS1_Austria.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">100% by 2050<\/a>; by 2050,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eurocities.eu\/stories\/reduce-reuse-and-recycle-to-build\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">80%<\/a>&nbsp;of components and materials from demolished buildings and major renovation projects must be reused or recycled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/forma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2022\/08\/61d75432e9f77b6f66855041_5.20ColumnWidth700x500GettyImages-552459293.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Vienna and the city hall at dusk. The city will soon have a green oasis in its center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200d<br>It\u2019s easy to make an agenda look good on paper. The real work is meeting the targets, and projects addressing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/smartcity.wien.gv.at\/en\/eco-buses-for-wiener-linien\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">electromobility<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/smartcity.wien.gv.at\/en\/e_os\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">renewable energies<\/a>&nbsp;from sewage sludge, temporary and shared&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/smartcity.wien.gv.at\/mehrfachnutzung\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">use of spaces<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/smartcity.wien.gv.at\/en\/smart-traffic-lights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">smart traffic lights<\/a>&nbsp;are underway across Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jochen Rabe, professor of urban resilience and digitalization at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tu.berlin\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Technische Universit\u00e4t Berlin<\/a>, points out that pilot projects too often hope to bring about \u201cnew normalities\u201d while failing to consider how those projects might be transferred to other areas or cities. He regards networking and exchanging ideas as critical for replicating projects after their test phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This kind of networking is the aim of the EU-funded&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/smarter-together.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Smarter Together<\/a>, a joint project that aims to improve quality of life in transforming cities. The project is managed by Vienna; Munich; and Lyon, France, which have turned entire neighborhoods into test bubbles for new technologies and infrastructures. Sofia, Bulgaria; Venice, Italy; Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Kiev, Ukraine; and Yokohama, Japan are involved as \u201csuccessor\u201d and \u201cobserver\u201d cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Munich-based Smarter Together project manager Bernhard Klassen calls this structure a \u201csnowball system\u201d and defines the next step as finding new neighborhoods where solutions can be implemented.<br>\u200d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/forma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2022\/08\/61d754a408529bae2f02c70b_ColumnWidth700x500_2021-03-10-cam01_01-jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Thaliastrasse in Vienna&#8217;s 16th district will become a green &#8220;climate boulevard&#8221; with reduced traffic. Image courtesy of DnD Landschaftsarkitektur.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200d<br><strong>Technology-Driven Urban Planning<\/strong><br>To achieve forward-thinking objectives, cities are relying on smart technologies that promise optimized infrastructure and logistics, as well as public and private spaces that are both livable and environmentally friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City of Oslo, Norway, used Autodesk Forma to plan one of its most&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aec.autodesk.com\/spacemaker-steen-strom-storebrand\/p\/1\">important projects<\/a>. Forma is based on artificial intelligence (AI) and uses&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/redshift.autodesk.com\/generative-design-ai\/\">generative design&nbsp;<\/a>to calculate the optimum development for a plot of land. It takes into account parameters such as wind, solar radiation, clearance, and noise to improve housing standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Oslo, this architectural reevaluation and design helped reduce low-light residential areas by 51% and noisy residential areas by 10%. With Forma, the planners were able to plan sustainably and saved several days of laborious manual work by using AI expertise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the early stages\u2014so during the planning and design phases\u2014you can have a major impact on sustainability,\u201d says H\u00e5vard Haukeland, Senior Director at Autodesk. \u201cThe cost of change during these stages is much lower than it is during retrofitting in later stages, such as construction and operation.\u201d<strong><br><br>Future Cities Don\u2019t Have to Be Big&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;<br>There are many reasons why big cities are beacons and showcases. Metropolitan areas are home to major companies. They are business locations and magnets for science and research. They are where the networks driving new developments are concentrated. But small and medium-size cities have also long been focuses of interest. The German towns of Ulm, Kaiserslautern, and Gera were among 13 model projects in the Smart Cities&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smart-city-dialog.de\/en\/startseite-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dialog platform<\/a>, which was initiated by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building, and Community in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 2022, climate-neutral neighborhoods will be built in the southwestern German town of Kaiserslautern, on a former factory site owned by sewing-machine manufacturer Georg Michael Pfaff. The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) is providing scientific support for the project, called&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pfaff-reallabor.de\/quartier\/vision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Enstadt: Pfaff Reallabor<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the unassuming town of Lemgo, in northwestern Germany, researchers took a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lemgo-digital.de\/index.php\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">similar approach<\/a>&nbsp;to experiment with creating a medium-size city of the future, in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies, and Image Exploitation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iosb.fraunhofer.de\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IOSB<\/a>). \u201cIt\u2019s all about turning the structural disadvantage of a small town into an advantage,\u201d says J\u00fcrgen Jasperneite, professor of computer networks at the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences and Arts and head of the Fraunhofer IOSB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project sees small municipalities as offering alternatives to and providing relief for big cities instead of remaining suspended in time. This focus on revitalizing smaller cities is similar to those being rolled out by Munich, Lyon, and Vienna as part of the Smarter Together initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the mayor of Paris advocates a \u201c15-minute city,\u201d she means self-sufficient neighborhoods that essentially function like villages and small towns. In the end, all projects serve the same purpose, whether they are realized in small communities, metropolises, or megacities. 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