REAL ESTATE AND SUSTAINABLE CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS
The three year interdisciplinary project, 'Real Estate and Sustainable Crisis management in Urban Environments (RESCUE)', led by Assistant Professor in Real Estate Economics Saija Toivonen at Aalto University has been awarded funding. This is a really important and timely project that looks at the crisis preparedness (e.g. pandemics, ageing population, climate change) of living and working environments and community infrastructures through a multi-disciplinary lens and at different scales. Learning and mapping best practices from Finland and other countries to then propose policies and designs and systems that support crisis preparedness better.
We are honoured to be part of this project with other collaborators:
Aalto University: Kimmo Lapintie, Vitalja Danivska, Johanna Lilius, Laura Arpiainen and Anahita Rashidfarahoki
Turku University: Wilenius Markku and Sirkka Heinonen
Tampere University: the ASUTUT research group with Sofie Pelsmakers as PI, as well as Suvi Nenonen and Jenni Poutanen.
Project summary:
The future is uncertain and full of different risks forming a tangled and complex network of future crises. Some crises are the causes from well-recognized megatrends while others appear suddenly and can be called ‘wild cards’. Real estate and land use play a crucial role in future crisis management as they are inevitably tied to the surrounding society due to their significant social, environmental and economic impacts. Crisis preparedness of space and land use has often been planned in silos with unilateral focus concentrating on material losses of buildings or instantly saving lives in acute crises while the long term impacts on social sustainability and wellbeing has received less attention despite its significance when aiming at a resilient crisis management. In addition, the time perspective in crisis preparedness has been front-loaded, focusing on prevention or viewing only the primary impacts leaving the secondary and tertiary impacts without attention. The aim of this study is to promote the dynamic resiliency of societies by identifying, analyzing and concretizing the role of space and land use in both anticipated and unanticipated primary and secondary crisis situations. The study brings together a unique team of researchers and methods from fields of futures studies, land use planning, social sustainability and wellbeing, facility management, architecture, spatial planning, design and real estate economics. The study presents a novel understanding of the direct and indirect impacts of future crises in the space and land use context. It offers a holistic and forward looking approach for crisis management by viewing the crisis impacts through a lens of social sustainability and wellbeing, and provides a better understanding how spaces, buildings and land use should be planned, used and managed to support different stakeholders (such as households, office workers, real estate owners, space occupants, firms, public sector) in different crisis situations. The study not only identifies the barriers and successful incentives in resilient crisis management but also discusses the future goals of stakeholders and presents concrete solutions concerning e.g. location, space divisions, land use structures, flexibility and services connected to real estate in crisis management. This study proposes future policies, regulations and management practices in the built environment which can increase the dynamic resilience of societies.
We are honoured to be part of this project with other collaborators:
Aalto University: Kimmo Lapintie, Vitalja Danivska, Johanna Lilius, Laura Arpiainen and Anahita Rashidfarahoki
Turku University: Wilenius Markku and Sirkka Heinonen
Tampere University: the ASUTUT research group with Sofie Pelsmakers as PI, as well as Suvi Nenonen and Jenni Poutanen.
Project summary:
The future is uncertain and full of different risks forming a tangled and complex network of future crises. Some crises are the causes from well-recognized megatrends while others appear suddenly and can be called ‘wild cards’. Real estate and land use play a crucial role in future crisis management as they are inevitably tied to the surrounding society due to their significant social, environmental and economic impacts. Crisis preparedness of space and land use has often been planned in silos with unilateral focus concentrating on material losses of buildings or instantly saving lives in acute crises while the long term impacts on social sustainability and wellbeing has received less attention despite its significance when aiming at a resilient crisis management. In addition, the time perspective in crisis preparedness has been front-loaded, focusing on prevention or viewing only the primary impacts leaving the secondary and tertiary impacts without attention. The aim of this study is to promote the dynamic resiliency of societies by identifying, analyzing and concretizing the role of space and land use in both anticipated and unanticipated primary and secondary crisis situations. The study brings together a unique team of researchers and methods from fields of futures studies, land use planning, social sustainability and wellbeing, facility management, architecture, spatial planning, design and real estate economics. The study presents a novel understanding of the direct and indirect impacts of future crises in the space and land use context. It offers a holistic and forward looking approach for crisis management by viewing the crisis impacts through a lens of social sustainability and wellbeing, and provides a better understanding how spaces, buildings and land use should be planned, used and managed to support different stakeholders (such as households, office workers, real estate owners, space occupants, firms, public sector) in different crisis situations. The study not only identifies the barriers and successful incentives in resilient crisis management but also discusses the future goals of stakeholders and presents concrete solutions concerning e.g. location, space divisions, land use structures, flexibility and services connected to real estate in crisis management. This study proposes future policies, regulations and management practices in the built environment which can increase the dynamic resilience of societies.
