GCP Workshop at Toyota High-level Symposium on Sustainable Cities

January 15–16, 2015, Toyota, Japan

January 15

Urban design and metabolism

Co-chairs: Perry Yang and Ayyoob Sharifi

Overview of GCP activities and Objective of the workshop(PDF, 1.4 MB)
Yoshiki Yamagata
and Ayyoob Sharifi
Neighbourhood development: Towards regenerative & net-positive outcomes
Raymond Cole
Integrated infrastructure: Opportunities for major efficiency improvement in design of urban systems
Ben Schwegler
Future of mobility(PDF, 4.0 MB)
Nebojsa Nakicenovic
Design for urban metabolism: From 1950s–1970s Japanese metabolism to the post-oil city design theory(PDF, 7.0 MB)
Perry Yang
Co-design through Virtual Design and Construction (VDC)(PDF, 5.0 MB)
Cheryl Chi
Weight of Cities —Social Material Metabolism and Sustainability—(PDF, 11.3 MB)
Hiroki Tanikawa
Land use scenarios: Trade-offs between benefits and risks(PDF, 3.5 MB)
Yoshiki Yamagata and
Daisuke Murakami

Ecosystem services

Co-chairs: Florian Kraxner and Ayyoob Sharifi

Economic-ecological tradeoffs: spatially explicit scenarios for the Alps at different scales(PDF, 994 KB)
Sabine Fuss
Balancing renewable energy and ecosystems services at different scales in the European Alps—possible lessons to learn for Japan(PDF, 9.0 MB)
Florian Kraxner
Supply and demand of ecosystem services in urban and rural areas—case in Toyota and Nagoya, Japan(PDF, 963 KB)
Kiichiro Hayashi

January 16

Social innovation for sustainability

Co-chairs: Christian Dimmer and Yoshiki Yamagata

Ecourbanism Worldwide: Comparing the case of Climate Positive communities and the global ecovillage perspective(PDF, 2.8 MB)
Meg Holden
Low Carbon transitioning and processes of social change(PDF, 1.3 MB)
Susie Moloney
Social Innovations & New “Commons”: Bottom-up Strategies for Adaptive Change and Community Resilience(PDF, 1.4 MB)
Christian Dimmer
A new lifestyle of a sustainable society through the reduction of CO2 emission; A proposal based on the calculation by family expenditure and Environmental Input and Output Table for recent three decades in Japan(PDF, 2.7 MB)
Chiho Oyabu

Social innovation for enhancing community well-being(PDF, 1.6 MB)

A Mutual learning Platform: A Consumer-Supplier Collaboration Experiment(PDF, 895 KB)

Evaluating the change of pro-environmental behaviors based on psychological Models(PDF, 1022 KB)

Yoshiki Yamagata
Naomi Oda
Eri Aoki

Discussion sessions on the joint project proposal

Co-chairs: Nebojsa Nakicenovic and Yoshiki Yamagata

Human Settlements and Climate Change Mitigation: Key findings from the latest IPCC WG3 report(PDF, 1.4 MB)

Urban transport scenario of Yangon, Myanmar(PDF, 1.5 MB)

Shobhakar Dhakal
Ye Thu Win
Economic impact of inter-mega city high speed train(PDF, 3.2 MB)
Atsushi Koike
Introduction to MaGNET & possible implications for URCM(PDF, 297 KB)
Sabine Fuss
Community-based approach to climate change response and Disaster mitigation: Cases in Nagoya City(PDF, 18.1 MB)
Akito Murayama
Principles and Criteria for Assessing Urban Energy Resilience(PDF, 855 KB)
Ayyoob Sharifi