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The chapter presents the general framework of the “Symbiotic Neighbourhoods” research project. It defines the concept of a symbiotic urban neighbourhood: in addition to increasing the intrinsic efficiency and systematically enhancing renewable resources, the main strategy consists in promoting short cycles and synergies in energy services and material flows. The approach thus allows valorising hidden resources. Within the mature ecosystem resulting from this process, waste produced by one becomes the raw material of the other. Based on this concept, the “Symbiotic Neighbourhoods” research simultaneously examines the scientific, technical, urban development and architectural aspects of local energy and resource self-reliance at neighbourhood scale, by integrating issues related to buildings, infrastructure, mobility and food. By transposing industrial ecology tools to the field of urban planning, the main objective is to develop new design principles and energy strategies for creating symbiotic neighbourhoods in the Swiss urban context.
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Lufkin, S., Rey, E., Erkman, S. (2016). Research Objectives. In: Strategies for Symbiotic Urban Neighbourhoods. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25610-8_1
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