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| Title | Lived Multi-Species High-Density Utopias: Smart City Design For Healthy And Diverse Communities In The Post-Anthropocene |
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| ID_Doc | 35378 |
| Authors | Herr C.M. |
| Year | 2024 |
| Published | The Routledge Companion to Smart Design Thinking in Architecture & Urbanism for a Sustainable, Living Planet |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003384113-14 |
| Abstract | A key aspect of intelligent utopian future cities is their ability to not only achieve high efficiency in terms of energy use and carbon emission performance over and beyond the cities we know, but also to act as host environments for healthy and content communities of inhabitants. Future smart cities will be conceived as hybrid artificial-natural ecologies, constructed to take larger systemic interrelationships into account. Accordingly, the quality of life these cities offer to their inhabitants will be defined beyond the requirements of humans only. This chapter critically examines how next-generation smart cities will integrate a broad variety of species and their interconnected habitats into future high-density and high-rise urban environments. Taking the high-tech city of Shenzhen as an example, this chapter examines how multi-species cities can be created from an initial base of integrating existing biodiversity of their surrounding environments and extend beyond conservation by including consideration of materials as well as architectural and urban form in the design of new kinds of artificial ecologies on and around buildings and urban infrastructure. In this context, materials and building typologies are re-thought for the post-Anthropocene city as forming a key component of bio-technological synergetic landscapes enabling cross-species co-living and well-being. © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Mitra Kanaani individual chapters, the contributors. |
| Author Keywords | Ecological Architectural Design; Multi-Species Cities; Smart Cities; Solarpunk; Urban Biodiversity |
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