An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Urban Redevelopment: Birmingham Eastside as a National and International Demonstrator

可持续发展东区项目的目的是探讨如何在再生决策过程中解决可持续性问题，并根据所述的可持续发展证书和愿望评估伯明翰东区已完成的开发计划的可持续性表现。将可持续性纳入城市再生计划，如伯明翰东区，似乎最好的概念化作为一个复杂的决策过程，由嵌入在发展过程中的利益相关者进行。可持续发展的障碍和推动因素（如本项目第一阶段所确定的）出现在这个综合体的不同时刻或地点。决策的时机和背景至关重要（在第二阶段中进行了研究），可能会导致路径依赖，从而限制最终开发计划中的可持续性特征。在第一和第二阶段，研究建立了一个跨学科知识和关键伙伴关系的框架;强调了协调整合可持续性三大支柱的重要性，以充分应对实现城市可持续性的复杂性;获得了在东区参加关键决策论坛的机会;与该地区的主要利益攸关方建立了牢固的联系;并牢牢融入东区的政策议程此外，研究人员正在努力建立东区发展的跨领域基线数据集，以严格衡量随时间的变化以及特定决策对整体城市再生计划可持续性的影响。在这样做的基础上，正在建立一个分区城市再生案例研究网站，通过创建一个研究设施，图书馆和办公桌，现在可供SUE / IEP财团的研究人员使用，以研究研究实践的应用。第二阶段的新发现使研究人员能够在一系列决策论坛上就可持续性决策的时机以及路径依赖成为问题的程度提出一系列假设。在第三阶段，将采用一套创新的分析工具，进一步阐明东区可持续发展愿景关键要素的复杂性和相互作用。首先，作为进一步研究的基础，我们将使用多学科工具“发展时间轴框架（DTF）”，明确实现可持续发展目标的决策路径依赖性，以及不同可持续发展目标之间的冲突和协同作用。其次，应用于DTF的跨领域可持续性检查表（SC）将允许每个研究人员分析每个可持续性要素（例如生物多样性，公众参与，空间利用，当地采购和回收）的决策的时间和背景的影响。第三，工业生态分析将跟踪特定资源（如水、总量），从而突出其相互依存性，而社会影响评估方法将有助于评估可持续性的社会文化方面（工业生态方法未涵盖）。这套工具支持工作包目标的交付。这项分析将进行的案例历史网站的基础上，使用开发网站内东区都是目前'活'，每个网站代表了不同的概念化的可持续发展。这提供了一个独特的机会，以评估在规划和设计阶段对可持续性的早期思考的具体影响，以及这种时间和路径依赖对最终建成形式的可持续性表现的影响。

The aim of the Sustainable Eastside Project is to explore how sustainability is addressed in the regeneration decision-making process, and to assess the sustainability performance of completed development schemes in Birmingham Eastside against stated sustainability credentials and aspirations. The incorporation of sustainability into an urban regeneration program, such as Birmingham Eastside, appears best conceptualised as a complex decision-making process carried out by stakeholders who are embedded within the development process. The barriers to and enablers of sustainability (as identified in Phase I of this project) appear at various moments or locations within this complex. The timing and context of decisions are critical (examined in Phase II), and can cause path-dependency which then limits how sustainability features in final development plans. In Phases I & II, the research set in place a framework of cross-disciplinary knowledge and key partnerships; highlighted the importance of coherent integration of the three pillars of sustainability to enable the complexity of achieving urban sustainability to be sufficiently grappled with; gained access to key decision-making forums in Eastside; built strong links with key stakeholders in the area; and firmly integrated into the policy agenda for Eastside. In addition, researchers are working to establish a cross-cutting baseline dataset of developments in Eastside rigorously to measure change over time and the impact of particular decisions on the sustainability of the overall urban regeneration programme. In so doing the foundations for a zonal urban regeneration case study site are being established, augmented by the creation of a study facility, with library and hot desking, now available for researchers from SUE / IEP consortia, to study the application of research to practice. The emerging findings of Phase II have allowed researchers to develop a series of hypotheses about the timing of decisions for sustainability in a range of decision-making forums, and the extent to which path-dependency becomes problematic. In Phase III, a suite of innovative analytical tools will be employed to elucidate further the complexities and interactions of the key elements of the sustainability vision for Eastside. First, a Development Timeline Framework (DTF), a multi-disciplinary tool that makes explicit the path dependency of decisions toward achieving sustainability goals, and the conflicts and synergies between different sustainability objectives, will be used as the basis for further research. Second, a cross-cutting Sustainability Checklist (SC) applied to the DTF will allow each researcher to analyse the impact of timing and context of decisions for each sustainability element (e.g. biodiversity, public participation, space utilisation, local sourcing, and recycling). Third, an Industrial Ecology (IE) analysis will follow particular resources (e.g. water, aggregates) thus highlighting their interdependence, while a Social Impact Assessment (SIA) approach will enable assessment of the socio-cultural aspects of sustainability (not covered by the IE approach). This suite of tools underpins the delivery of the work package aims. This analysis will be undertaken on a case history site basis, using development sites within Eastside that are all currently 'live,' each site representing a different conceptualisation of sustainability. This provides a unique opportunity to evaluate the specific impact of early thinking about sustainability in the planning and design stages, and the impact of this timing and path-dependency on sustainability performance in the final built form.