GENOAEUROMED

SMART CITY

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Antonio Parodi, EU Adviser to the Mayor of Genoa

Genoa's profile and sustainable development guidelines/referencesEU Projects about urban planning and mobilityThe way forward: Genoa Euromed Smart CitySome conclusions

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Genoa is the Capital city of the Region Liguria

Population 620.000Land area 240 km²

The most important Italian port and one of the main euromediterranean harboursOne of the biggest historical centre in Europe

,The city lies between the sea and mountains along a narrow coastline

The urban environment is definitively influenced by this topography andit is concentrating mainly in coastline area and in two valleys.

Urban centre: Land area 28 km² (12%), population 285.000 (46%)density more than 10.000 residents per km².

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Genoa’s metropolitan area is acomplex “city-region” system

Open Days 2010 workshop "Smart Sustainable Cities and Regions"

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New Development Policy of the present City Council

STRATEGIC URBAN PLANNING

as the main tool to mainstream Sustainable Development

Priority: Urban Rehabilitation

Sectorial Projects with some environmental impacts

Till 2007

Towards a more holistic view

Urban Planning – Guidelines

Future Genoa is a sustainable cityThe Green Line and the Blue Line:

enhancing relationships between urban environment and green areas and marine environment

Construction on existing buildingsGiving priority to public trasport over private transport

Big projects and Small projectsUrban Quality as driver of rehabilitation projects

Social Integration as driver of urban planningCompetitions as a tool for open and effective participation

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Urban Labis the laboratory for urban planning designed by Renzo Piano, that carries out research on city

change and plans according to sustainable development principles.Its main participatory instrument is the “Board of Ideas” chaired by the City Mayor and

supervised by Renzo Piano and Richard Burdett

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Participants: Genoa, Athens, Thessaloniki, Malaga, Sevilla, Valencia, Barcelona, Marseille, Community of Pays d’Aix, Turin, Rome

May 2009-February 2011

Objectives:- preventing “natural risks” linked to climate change

- limiting the environmental impact of urbanization process- reducing GHG emissions

Phases:1. Elaboration of a common system of indicators

2. Experimentation of a pilot project named “Green Apple” (Sustainable District);3. Elaboration of a methodological guide on Sustainable Districts with a related charter signed by the Mayors of the participant cities

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Open Days 2010 workshop "Smart Sustainable Cities and Regions"

Participants: Manchester, Oldham, Malmo, Murcia, Genoa, Thessaloniki, Amaroussion, Katowice

The “Partnership Energy Planning as a tool for realising European Sustainable Energy Communities” (PEPESEC) project support the emergence of European sustainable energy communities through increasing the use of local community planning for the efficient supply, distribution and use of RES (Renewable Energy Sources) and conventional energy, demand-side management and associated mobility.January 2008 - June 2010

A project based on a vision-led approach promoting the significant economic, social and environmental benefits of developing a low-carbon economy and shaping a sustainable energy community.

From the wider use of existing best practice energy planning methodologies (from Sweden and wider EU) to their further development through the addition of innovative techniques to facilitate the involvement of citizens, politicians, market actors and other stakeholders whose buy-in and actions are required for effective plan delivery.

Innovation is a significant feature of the engagement process through marrying the best of LA21/Sustainable Community Strategy learning with latest tools and techniques for multi-stakeholder strategic plan development.

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Port Energy and Environmental Plan (PEAP) aims at promoting RES and energy efficiency over the whole harbour area.

Through the definition of a specific action programme and an awareness raising scheme adressed to all the port operators

The action programme will develop the regulatory framework, the environmental impact assessment, building assessment, operational guidelines, communication tools and training.

One major tecnical objective is the electrification of most of the port operations dramatically reducing emisssions from ship combustion engines.

Participants: Genoa, Burgos, Krakow and Stuttgart, and their public transport operators, industrial partners and research

institutions

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Implementation of 55 policy measures

Large-scale demonstrators with a substantial impact will be implemented (e.g. extension of access restricted zones coupled with enforcement, road and parking pricing, freight distribution schemes).

The use of clean vehicles for freight, high volume PT and flexible services are demonstrated (Genoa: 20 large clean EURO IV buses on High Mobility Corridors, 30 medium-sized methane buses for flexible and inner-city services, 30 hybrid cars to be used for car sharing and electrical vehicles as buses and freight vans). Demonstrations are highly integrated in few demonstration areas and some city-wide activities.

Emphasis is on measures with strong impact on the modal split in the cities, and restriction of private car use.

High visibility and profile is ensured through publicity and awareness raising schemes.

Sustainable Energy Action Plan

SEAPin July 2010

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GENOASignatory City of the Convenant of Mayors

in 2009

Genova Città Digitale

Pooling the City ITC resources to implement the Green Digital Charter

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The way forward:

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Genova Smart CityConvenant of Mayors

Implementing the holistic approach

For major breakthrough towards GENOVA FUTURA

One of the most sustainable EUROMED Cities in 2020

LONG TERM SUSTAINABLE URBAN PLANNINGPRIVATE PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP

PARTICIPATORY APPROACH

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Genova Smart City

“Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards succes or failure:

long term planning and willingness to reconsider core values.”

“...a lower-impact society is the most impossible scenario for our future – except for all other conceivable scenarios.”

Jared Diamond, “Collapse – How societies choose to fail or survive”, 2005

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