New Mobility for a Sustainable Urban Future
For a sustainable development of cities urban mobility needs to be re-invented. On the one hand urban mobility is a principal generator of GHG emissions. On the other hand all over the world mobility infrastructure has been changing the form and image of cities to the worse. Many cities have lost their quality of urban life. Mobility forms the city and the city forms mobility: This is the starting point for an interdisciplinary approach to urban mobility, taking into account urban space, traffic modeling and user preferences. The lecture is based on a research project dealing with new perspectives and concepts for sustainable urban mobility to reduce GHG emissions and to stabilize and improve the quality of life.
Short Bio
J. Alexander Schmidt is Master of Sustainable City Planning and Urban Design at the DeTao Masters Academy/Beijing. He holds the Chair of City Planning & Urban Design at University Duisburg-Essen/Germany where he is director of the ARUS Advanced Research in Urban Systems at the JointCenter Urban Systems. He studied City Planning/Architecture (Stuttgart) and Environmental Psychology/Urban Design (UC Berkeley). As visiting professor he was at the University of Oregon/Portland as well as at Berkeley, Adelaide and Melbourne. The professional work focusses urban development, urban design and renewal on national and international levels. The research is dealing with interdisciplinary urban topics, e.g. integrated and multimodal Mobility and Urban Development; Low Carbon Planning and Energy Efficiency Monitoring; Climate Change and New Bottom-Up Initiatives; Urban Strategies for Climate Change; Urban Design and Health; Beauty and the City.