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Planning the city of tomorrow: bridging the gap between urban planners and subsurface specialists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2018

Gillian Dick ,
Ingelöv Eriksson ,
Johannes de Beer ,
Helen Bonsor  and
Petra van der Lugt
Gillian Dick*
Affiliation:
Glasgow City Council, Planning and Development, 231 George Street, Glasgow G1 1RX, UK. Email: [email protected]
Ingelöv Eriksson
Affiliation:
City of Oslo, Planning and Building Agency, Vahls Gate 1, 0187, Oslo, Norway.
Johannes de Beer
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Norway, PO Box 6315 Torgard, 7491 Trondheim, Norway.
Helen Bonsor
Affiliation:
British Geological Survey, Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South, Edinburgh EH14 4AP, UK.
Petra van der Lugt
Affiliation:
City of Rotterdam, City Development, Wilhelminakade 179, 3072AP Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
*
*Corresponding author
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Abstract

This paper addresses the process towards the integration of subsurface knowledge into urban planning for three cities – Rotterdam, Glasgow and Oslo – participating in the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action TU1206 Sub-Urban. These cities each have unique challenges in managing conflicts and opportunities in the subsurface in the planning process. The COST Sub-Urban Action has enabled a unique interaction between subsurface specialists and urban planners across over 20 European cities, and has laid the foundations for a new understanding between experts who develop subsurface knowledge and those who can benefit most from it – urban planners and decision makers. Common challenges identified include: improving planning policies, enhancing the level of awareness of the subsurface in city development and the modification of legislation to include the subsurface. The paper provides a review of the current status of subsurface planning in the three cities, each of whom are aiming to adapt their urban planning practice and legislation in light of emerging subsurface knowledge, and the current major knowledge gaps. In our opinion, there are two main routes to raise awareness that lead to improved understanding and the use of subsurface information in urban planning processes: (1) the development of a subsurface policy and (2) providing subsurface information. These measures should enable subsurface knowledge to be widely disseminated in order to manage risks and opportunities, and maximise the economic, social and environmental benefits of the urban subsurface and its services on which cities depend.

Keywords

3D informationintegrated approachlegislationmanagementpolicyspatial developmentsustainabilityunderground
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Articles
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 108 , Issue 2-3: The Geosciences in Europe’s Urban Sustainability: Lessons from Glasgow and Beyond (CUSP) , June 2017 , pp. 327 - 335
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Copyright © British Geological Survey UKRI 2018 

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