Literature
Williams, J. (2021). Moving from a circular economy to a circular city, in: Williams, J. (2021). Circular Cities: A Revolution in Urban Sustainability (1st ed.). Routledge, 8–18. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429490613.
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Corvellec, Hervé, Alison F. Stowell, and Nils Johansson. 2021. ‘Critiques of the Circular Economy’. Journal of Industrial Ecology jiec.13187. doi: 10.1111/jiec.13187.
Fratini, Chiara Farné, Susse Georg, and Michael Søgaard Jørgensen (2019). Exploring Circular Economy Imaginaries in European Cities: A Research Agenda for the Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions. Journal of Cleaner Production 228: 974–89. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.04.193.
Kębłowski, W., Lambert, D. & Bassens, D. (2020) Circular economy and the city: an urban political economy agenda, Culture and Organization, 26:2, 142-158, DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2020.1718148.
Description: Wojciech Kębłowski, who is a 4CITIES alumnus and opens the 2022 Spring School on Friday, and colleagues, provide a critical urban political economy perspective on the state of the circular economy in Brussels to unpack a series of key contradictions, tensions, and limitations of ‘circular’ policies and practices in contemporary cities. They explore how the anticipated transition to a ‘circular city’ chimes with long-standing urban development agendas in Brussels. The article concludes with suggesting to further analyze what power relations underpin both ‘circular’ practices and policies, and to address the fundamental question of who ultimately is set to benefit or lose from the anticipated transition towards the CE. Analyzing it through the urban scale is essential to explore the tensions between its capacity to facilitate a radical societal change on the one hand, and the deepening exigencies of capital accumulation on the other.
Munaro, M.R., Tavares, S. F. & Bragança, L. (2020). Towards circular and more sustainable buildings: A systematic literature review on the circular economy in the built environment, Journal of Cleaner Production 260, 121134. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121134.
Prendeville, S., Cherim, E., & Bocken, N. (2018). Circular Cities: Mapping Six Cities in Transition. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 26, 171–194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2017.03.002
Rios, F.C., Panic, S., Grau, D., Khanna, V., Zapitelli, J. & Bilec, M. (2022). Exploring circular economies in the built environment from a complex systems perspective: A systematic review and conceptual model at the city scale, Sustainable Cities and Society 80, 103411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.103411
Description: Fernanda Cruz Rios et al. (2020) conduct a systemic literature review to present a state of research on the circular economy as it is currently being applied to the built environment. More specifically, by analyzing the requirements for a more circular built environment through a systems lens, they highlight the various interdependent spheres, including governmental, economic, environmental, technological, and societal, which must collaborate to ensure a more holistic CE implementation. Subsequently, this article will help you prepare for the Friday afternoon session on methods and tools for transdisciplinary research, were you will co-create challenges of circularity in the built environment with urban practitioners from Vienna.
Corvellec, Hervé, Alison F. Stowell, and Nils Johansson. 2021. ‘Critiques of the Circular Economy’. Journal of Industrial Ecology jiec.13187. doi: 10.1111/jiec.13187.
Fratini, Chiara Farné, Susse Georg, and Michael Søgaard Jørgensen (2019). Exploring Circular Economy Imaginaries in European Cities: A Research Agenda for the Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions. Journal of Cleaner Production 228: 974–89. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.04.193.
Munaro, M.R., Tavares, S. F. & Bragança, L. (2020). Towards circular and more sustainable buildings: A systematic literature review on the circular economy in the built environment, Journal of Cleaner Production 260, 121134. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121134.
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Williams, J. (2021). Moving from a circular economy to a circular city, in: Williams, J. (2021). Circular Cities: A Revolution in Urban Sustainability (1st ed.). Routledge, 8–18. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429490613.
Description: This chapter by Jo Williams presents the current conceptualization of a circular city and suggests that a new conceptualization is needed. Thus, it advocates a shift in focus from circular business models and industrial production processes in cities (an economic focus) to circular urban systems (a socio-ecological focus), integrating sustainability concepts such as ecological footprint, sufficiency and adaptive capacity. Accordingly, it provides a sound overview of the development of the circular city concept and how it can be adapted and applied to construct resource-efficient, ecologically regenerative, and resilient cities.
Video Resources
Kate Raworth: Downscaling the Doughnut to the City:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCqGf7T9ABo
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