Stakeholder dialogue roadmaps to a healthy urban environment ‘Sustainable City’ project Lieke Michiels van Kessenich MSc.

2 Stoke on Trent – LMvK, 21 Oct 2009 The challenge  Policies promise a more healthy, liveable and energy-neutral living environment, but what is this? More specifically, what spatial consequences can such a policy hold?  Sustainable City project  Focus on the local level  Three themes: Health and Safety, Liveability, and Energy

3 Stoke on Trent – LMvK, 21 Oct 2009 Stakeholder dialogue  Participatory  Complexity  Governance  Backcasting  Beyond today´s trends  Second generation backcasting  Policy Arrangements  Discourse (substantive)  Resources, Rules of the game, Actors (organisational)

Stoke on Trent – LMvK, 21 Oct 2009 Stakeholders Policy Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) Ministry of Housing, Spatial planning and the Environment (VROM) Municipalities of Utrecht and Rotterdam Public Health Authority of Amsterdam and Rotterdam NGOs / interest groups ANBO (ANBO promotes the interests of over-50’s) Diabetes Fund (Diabetesfonds) Netherlands Institute for Sport and Physical Activity (NISB) Netherlands Society for Nature and Environment (Stichting Natuur en Milieu) Parnassia (Institution for psycho -medical care) Scientists Erasmus University Medical Centre (Public Health) Maastricht University ICIS NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences Delft University of Technology Alterra (research institute for our green living environment) Health Council of the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (Nivel) Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) Market parties DuraVermeer (project development) Infoplan (consultant) SOAB – Breda (urban development)

Stoke on Trent – LMvK, 21 Oct 2009 road maps theme visions road maps Research design Dialogue policy options artist impression visualise spatial design Design inform specify appraisal Analyse

Stoke on Trent – LMvK, 21 Oct 2009 Future healthy city  Physical activity  Social interaction  Flexibility  Freedom of choice  Diversity  Public green space  Water  No noise and smog  Multi modal public transport  Facilities and multiple functions

Stoke on Trent – LMvK, 21 Oct 2009 Future healthy city – an artist impression

Stoke on Trent – LMvK, 21 Oct 2009 Road-map to 2040

Stoke on Trent – LMvK, 21 Oct 2009 Conclusion  Creative tension  Role of technology  Future trends  Health and urban planning  Attractive for physical activity  Responsibility

Stoke on Trent – LMvK, 21 Oct 2009  Thank you for your attention!  Some backcasting literature:  J. Quist, P. Vergragt, Past and future of backcasting: The shift to stakeholder participation and a proposal for a methodological framework, Futures 38 (2006)  K.H. Dreborg, Essence of backcasting, Futures 28 (1996)  J. Robinson, Future subjunctive: backcasting as social learning, Futures 35 (2003)  Some websites:  Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency  National Institute for Public Health and the Environment  Research about healty district in Amsterdam  Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment 

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