The talk outlines a model for designing carbon-neutral city districts, grounded in smart-city frameworks. It is organised in three sections:
An introduction to the smart-intelligent city development and planning paradigm, its constituting elements, drivers of urban change, and new models introduced in all smart city ecosystems.
The ReGenWest, a pilot project within the EU Cities Mission for a carbon-neutral smart city district in the Railway Station area of Thessaloniki, which serves as a laboratory for climate-neutral transformation. The project maximises local renewable energy production (RES) and the deployment of nature-based solutions (NBS), redesigning underused urban spaces. Eleven intervention areas and thirteen project types demonstrate how planning through projects accelerates the transition.
A new set of design methodologies for urban smart-green transformation, including bottom-up community and stakeholder engagement; environmental monitoring using sensors, satellite data, and participatory tools to measure CO₂ and climate impacts; and agent-based modelling (ABM) to optimise the spatial distribution of RES and NBS.
Overall, the talk proposes four scalable methodologies (platform design, data spaces, ABM, and design for innovation) to transform urban districts into carbon-neutral smart ecosystems.
Here is the file: Design for Carbon-Neutral Smart Cities