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Prof.dr.ir. M.P.C. Weijnen Professor, Faculty of TPM, TU Delft Urban infrastructure, part 1
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Page 1: Urban infrastructure, part 1 - edX · 2014. 10. 29. · • Restore environmentally damaged urban areas • Ensure decent and affordable housing for all socio-economic and ethnic

Prof.dr.ir. M.P.C. Weijnen Professor, Faculty of TPM, TU Delft

Urban infrastructure, part 1

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• Good or bad news for the environment?

• What role can infrastructures play in creating eco-cities?

Urbanization

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The essence of a city

لغة

Physical dimension

Socio-economic dimension

Cultural dimension

Complex adaptive system

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Pearl River Delta

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The bigger cities get, the more productive and efficient they tend to become. (Source: Luis M.A. Bettencourt and Geoffrey B. West, Scientific American, August 17, 2011).

Bigger cities do more with less

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Bigger cities do more with less

8 million

4 million

4 million

• A city of 8 million typically needs 15% less of the same infrastructure than do two cities of 4 million each.

• On average, the bigger the city, the more efficient its use of infrastructure, leading to important savings in materials, energy and emissions.

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Research on cities as complex systems

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• Have a well-planned city layout and public transportation system

• Operate on a self-contained economy, resources needed are found locally

• Have completely carbon-neutral and renewable energy production

• Ensure resource conservation, creating a zero-waste system

• Restore environmentally damaged urban areas

• Ensure decent and affordable housing for all socio-economic and ethnic groups and improve job opportunities for disadvantaged groups

• Support local agriculture and produce

• Promote voluntary simplicity in lifestyle choices, decreasing material consumption, and increasing awareness of environmental and sustainability issues

Eco-cities

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Many of these criteria are not easily applicable to megacities

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Megacities need to harvest their renewable energy resources outside the city

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• Provision of water and energy, and removal of waste and waste water can be accomplished with higher efficiency and with better quality of service than in rural areas.

Infrastructures do the trick

Megacities

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AEB Amsterdam

Electricity

Heat

900 KWh

91 KWh

Iron 16 kg

Other metals 3 kg

Gypsum 4.5 kg

Construction material 209 kg

1 Tonne

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Waternet

Waste water Clean water

Biogas

Electricity

Heat

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District heating

• The denser the city, the more efficient heat distribution is.

• Using heat generated from waste, biogas, solar, and gas fired cogeneration units

• Denmark: wind power peaks are used to generate heat in the district heating system. This allows the cogeneration plants to be shut down temporarily, thus reducing fossil fuel use.

• The denser the city, the more efficient heat distribution is.

• Using heat generated from waste, biogas, solar, and gas fired cogeneration units.

• The denser the city, the more efficient heat distribution is.

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Biogas

• Biogas harvested abundantly by farms

• To fuel co-generation plants

• Upgraded to green gas

• Biogas harvested abundantly by farms

• To fuel co-generation plants

• Biogas harvested abundantly by farms

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• Objective: carbon neutral by 2029 • Replacement of natural gas in

district heating with geothermal, solar, biomass etc.

• A new pipeline connecting all existing district heating networks.

• Generating biogas from pig manure, organic waste and energy crops.

• Generating power from biogas, wind and photovoltaic.

• Installing photovoltaic cells and heat pumps in rural areas.

Sonderborg, Denmark

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“The cheapest, most competitive, cleanest, and most secure form of energy for the European Union thus remains saved energy.” - Andris Piebalgs

Energy saving

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