5. Low Carbon Urban Design

Municipalities are administrative entities who manage a full set of key elements that are highly relevant to influence the future carbon-carbon footprint in regional contexts. In various approaches all over the world, cities are taking action and share their knowledge systematically. They combine a systematic change and quality management approach with the development of sector-specific tools as well as policy recommendations. A complete new approach in planning technologies will be needed to fully cope with the challenges, rising by the given growth of complexity in future urban developments. Based on cloud computing solutions, integrative planning can be reached by combining the different key layers into one overall approach that allows rapid prototyping and the parametric development of complex environments.