Charrette! An urgent response toward resilient and sustainable cities and landscapes

• Autores: Simon Kilbane, Phillip B. Roös
• Localización: Resilient and sustainable cities: research, policy and practice / coord. por Catherine Gall; Zaheer Allam (ed. lit.), Didier Chabaud (ed. lit.), Florent Pratlong (ed. lit.), Carlos Moreno (ed. lit.), 2023, ISBN 9780323917186, págs. 227-243
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Growing environmental challenges, habitat destruction, species extinction, urban population growth, and urban densification underwrite the mandate for creating more resilient and sustainable cities and landscapes. However, how can we move from intention and theory to the implementation necessary for human and other species survival? Design charrettes have been common in landscape architecture, architecture, and urban planning disciplines for the last several decades and aim to create sustainable cities and communities. However, how prevalent is the charrette as design method now and how could a fresh look at charrettes help to meet—as an urgent response—the challenge of the creation of resilient and sustainable cities and landscapes in an increasingly populous and dense world? Through a review of 5 years of scholarly literature and 13 specific project examples drawn from this review, we examined in detail the characteristics of the charrette as a tool to meet a response to these questions. Our findings were threefold. First, charrettes remain a popular tool in the urban planning and design fields, employed at a range of scales and in a variety of diverse international contexts. Second, a broad cross section of stakeholders and community participate in this process. Third, a diverse range of plans, strategies, and other illustrative content define project outcomes and were achievable within a short time frame. These findings were critically reviewed and confirm that charrettes can indeed offer a good planning and design response as time-sensitive activities that seek to deliver sustainable cities and landscapes in our changing world.