DON’T WASTE IT! AMA 2050
WASTE AND ENERGY FLOWS FOR LOCAL SUSTAINABLE PERI URBAN AREAS IN THE AMA When looking at metabolic flows is evident that energy and waste flows are those with the biggest impact. Energy is needed for most of the processes and waste is a result of most processes. Therefore, this project focus on these two cycles to identify how these cycles can be improved and combined and how they can contribute to a sustainable development of peri-urban areas. This project pays attention to peri-urban areas as spaces for interventions. These territories which are neither totally urban nor totally rural, cover most of Europe and accommodate important functions and facilities, are neglected from a planning as well as from a policy point of view, while they withhold spatial potential (Wandl 2014). Hence, this project also introduces Circular Economy frameworks to create efficient waste and energy cycles within periurban areas. After identifying waste and energy networks in the AMA and their clusters, we assessed possible new connections and interdependences between municipalities based on their waste and energy production/ demand and on the strengths that this communities have. Based on these elements, we create the flows of upcycling waste, biofuel, upcycling material, renewable energy and CO2 to demonstrate the opration of this systems at the regional and local scale.
MSc Urbanism Group Project Mona zum Felde, Junzhong Chen, Alejandra Quezada and Susanne van Rijn Amsterdam Metropolitan Area, The Netherlands MSc2 -3rd Quarter [February - April 2017] TU DELFT
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