Creating Sustainable Places: A Comprehensive Approach to Sustainable Urban

Schedule

Thu Mar 12 2026 at 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Simard Hall (SMD) - 129 | Ottawa, ON

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The André Gauthier Sustainable Cities Initiative is pleased to host Nico Larco, world‑renowned expert in sustainable urban planning.
About this Event

Sustainable Urban Design

Despite wide agreement about its role in overall sustainability goals, physical planning and design remain a complicated, largely fragmented field of practice. The diversity of issues, scales, disciplines, and contexts make it challenging to deliver integrated outcomes that measurably advance sustainability goals. To address this challenge, Prof. Larco will be presenting the external link, a comprehensive approach to sustainable design, collecting current research and best practices from across the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, planning, development, ecology, and environmental engineering.

The framework organizes over 50 specific urban design elements across outcome goals and scales, and can be used to guide project decisions, evaluate current and proposed conditions, and to engage a variety of stakeholders. The Sustainable Urban Design Framework is the focus of the recently published external link, a graphically rich and easy to use resource for designers, planners, developers, elected officials, and community stakeholders.



Créer des espaces durables : une approche intégrée de l’urbanisme durable


L’initiative Villes durables André-Gauthier a le plaisir d’accueillir Nico Larco, professeur à l'Université de l'Oregon et expert mondial de l'urbanisme durable, dont les travaux pionniers aident les villes à intégrer l'innovation technologique et les impératifs écologiques dans leur design de demain.



Design urbain durable

Bien qu’on s’entende généralement sur le rôle de l’urbanisme dans l’atteinte des objectifs en matière de durabilité, la pratique de l’aménagement matériel et de la conception demeure un champ compliqué et en grande partie fragmenté. La diversité des enjeux, des échelles, des disciplines et des contextes en fait un domaine où il est difficile d’obtenir des résultats intégrés qui répondent de manière mesurable aux objectifs de durabilité. Comme solution, le professeur Nico Larco présentera lelien externe, une approche intégrée de la conception durable, qui recense la recherche actuelle et les pratiques exemplaires dans les domaines de l’architecture, de l’aménagement paysager, de la planification, du développement, de l’écologie et du génie environnemental.

Ce cadre, qui organise plus de 50 éléments d’urbanisme en fonction d’objectifs et d’échelles, peut servir à orienter les décisions au sein de projets, à évaluer les conditions actuelles et proposées, et à mettre à contribution divers partenaires. Il fait d’ailleurs l’objet du guidelien externe, une ressource visuellement riche et facile à utiliser pour les responsables de l’urbanisme, de la planification et du développement, ainsi que pour les élues et élus et les partenaires communautaires.

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Simard Hall (SMD) - 129, 165 Waller St, Ottawa, Canada

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