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A Circular Economy Approach to designing settlements
The circular economy is said to offer the “world of opportunity to re-think and re-design the way we make stuff”. Could this concept be used to re-design the way we build our cities and neighbourhoods? How might we design places with circular infrastructure—pathways that enable the circulation of products and resources around a neighbourhood?
The death of the city…
It has become commonplace for articles and presentations about cities to start with facts such as that in 1950, 30 per cent of the world’s population was urban and by 2014 that number had reached 54 per cent. Reference to this trend is invariably followed by an assertion that the trend must inevitably continue into the future, suggesting, for example, that by 2050, 66 per cent of the world’s population is projected to be urban. In this article I ask whether we have the courage to question whether this trend is inevitable or, indeed, desirable?