What does rebuilding mean if it is not only about restoring infrastructure, but about rethinking the systems themselves — ecological, spatial, and economic?
We invite you to the lecture Building Back Better with Regenerative City-Regions, dedicated to regenerative city-region planning — an approach that understands cities and territories as interconnected living systems, capable not only of reducing harm, but of restoring resources, environments, and relationships between people.
The lecture will consist of two parts:
● a theoretical section exploring the principles of regenerative systems planning and their implications for policies and development strategies;● a practical section featuring implemented projects and spatial planning cases.
Speakers:
Scott Edmondson — urbanist and researcher of regenerative urbanism, former Senior Planner-Analyst at the San Francisco Planning Department, where he worked on the biophilic and regenerative city program and the development of integrative systems planning.
Charles Kelley — architect and urban designer with more than 35 years of experience, involved in a range of sustainability-driven projects across the United States and Asia, including the Pearl District in Portland, the Southwest EcoDistrict in Washington, DC, and Kashiwa no ha Smart City in Japan.
For the Ukrainian context, this conversation matters as an attempt to approach rebuilding through longer cycles — water, landscapes, resources, local economies, and the capacity of territories to sustain life in the future.
Moderator: Lilet Breddels — Project Manager at Ro3kvit.