Designing the "Energy City"
The “energy city” concept underlines the necessity of a more open understanding of the urban space, where shapes and numbers aren’t enough to explain the complex nature and interaction of processes and phenomena. The image of energy fields, waves and flows of different intensities, multiple temporalities, linear and non-linear dynamics, describes our understanding of urban territories. Such a vision implies that urban planning and design needs to include an intuitive way of thinking, being able to cut across scales, themes, mentalities, fields of knowledge and temporalities. It is through this holistic way of thinking about urban territories that the main specificities and differences of the conceptual figure of “energy city” are explored in metropolitan Europe and Asia.