CUTLER

Le développement urbain côtier à travers les fils de la résilience

Coastal urban development incorporates a wide range of development activities that are taking place as a result of the water element existing in the fabric of the city. This element may have different forms (i.e. a bay, a river, or a brook) but in almost all cases the surrounding area constitutes what maybe considered as the heart of the city. Every city that incorporates the water-element in its fabric is confronted with the fundamental requirement of developing policies for driving development in the surrounding area, while balancing between: Economic growth, Protection of the environment, and Safeguarding social cohesion.

This requirement is tightly connected with the concept of Urban Resilience, which is the capacity of individuals, communities, businesses and systems within a city to survive, adapt and grow no matter what chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience. In developing policies that add value to the resilience of a city, CUTLER shifts the existing paradigm of policy making, which is largely based on intuition, towards an evidence-driven approach enabled by big data.

Attention is placed on policies related to the water element. Our basis is the sensing infrastructures installed in the cities offering demographic data, statistical information, sensor readings and user contributed content forming the big data layer. Methods for big data analytics are used to measure the economic activity, assess the environmental impact and evaluate the social consequences. The extracted pieces of evidence are used to inform, advice, monitor, evaluate and revise the decisions made by policy planners.

Enfin, des politiques efficaces sont élaborées en ce qui concerne :
(a) Le développement économique et urbain de la baie de Thermaikos, Thessalonique,
(b) La transformation du ruisseau Düden en une zone de loisirs et un parc, Antalya,
(c) L'élaboration d'un plan de gestion des eaux pluviales à Anvers, et
(d) La révision du plan de développement du pays dans le bassin hydrographique et l'estuaire de la rivière Owenabue, dans le comté de Cork.