Abstract:

Social cohesion at the heart of neighborhoods can be a powerful catalyst for change. It can steward the development of governance that supports balanced approaches to achieving and maintaining progressive social, cultural and environmental goals. As a cultural development strategy, the district scale can carry systems-level benefits of advancing infrastructure strategies and may offer a scale of governance capable of overcoming municipal, state and regional bureaucratic hampers. Coupling a prototypical net-zero district, a measured smart growth methodology, with the idea of retrofit understood as a practice of progressive preservation the two parallel approaches, one looking forward and one looking back offer an alliance capable of optimizing outcomes as they relate to quality of life, health and well-being, community economics and climate mitigation. Illustrated through a case study on the Gowanus Canal, designated a Superfund site in 2010, the methodology of a 2050 Net Zero Neighborhood is considered in parallel with the potential of climate mitigation and preservation co-benefits setting up a new paradigm; a comprehensive built-environment strategy working within limits to growth. Though the aesthetics of comfort and convenience alongside balanced and integrated systems are not in themselves drivers of development, when considered as design priorities by way of sensitive and responsive measures for energy accounting including life-cycle analyses, these priorities can yield highly desirable characteristics within alternative development scenarios, inclusive of community centered bottom-line balances. In meeting a 2050 Net Zero goal, both preservation practice and smart growth strategy stand to gain when aligned. Regulatory flexibility and broad community support are needed to achieve these integrated models of reinvestment as we move toward balanced and equitable neighborhoods replete with power to leverage technical and cultural strategies augmenting their authentic histories of place.

摘要：

社区核心的社会凝聚力可以​​成为变革的强大催化剂。它可以指导治理的发展，支持平衡的方法来实现和维持进步的社会、文化和环境目标。作为一种文化发展战略，地区规模可以带来推进基础设施战略的系统级利益，并可能提供能够克服市政、州和地区官僚障碍的治理规模。将典型的净零区（一种可衡量的智能增长方法）与被理解为渐进式保护实践的改造理念相结合，两种平行的方法，一种向前看，一种向后看，提供了一个能够优化与质量相关的结果的联盟关乎生命、健康和幸福，社区经济和气候减缓。通过对 2010 年被指定为超级基金站点的 Gowanus 运河的案例研究说明，2050 年净零社区的方法与气候减缓和保护共同利益的潜力被认为是建立新范式的同时；在增长限制范围内工作的综合建筑环境战略。尽管舒适和便利的美学以及平衡和集成的系统本身并不是发展的驱动力，但当通过包括生命周期分析在内的能源核算的敏感和响应措施被视为设计优先事项时，这些优先事项可以在替代方案中产生非常理想的特征发展情景，包括以社区为中心的底线平衡。在实现 2050 年净零目标的过程中，保存实践和明智的增长战略在保持一致时都会受益。随着我们向平衡和公平的社区迈进，我们需要灵活的监管和广泛的社区支持来实现这些再投资的综合模式，这些社区充满了利用技术和文化战略来增强其真实历史的力量。