Sustainable Urban Environment Model (SUEM) - by Efren

Efren's model joins community, eco-urban planning, territorial ecosystem and urban metabolism into one. The model is adjustable.

Almost all models have been created using very basic materials present in Labein - stationary; they are the very first models inspired by vectors of Sustainable Urban Environment developed by Labein.

Community: “a neighbourhood-scale, rich in relations, mixed, diverse, interdependent, networked with other communities, belonging to a local culture, rooted in its heritage and at the service of coming generations”

Eco-urban planning: “an ecologically-based urban planning and development, inspired by permaculture, respectful of the places, defining meaningful and qualitative spaces at a human scale; at the service of the citizens, giving an optimized and synergic room to every use and energetic or material flow day and night”

Territorial ecosystem: “a slow, cyclic and not exhaustive colonization of the underground, ground and athmosphere, with scaled transport networks; arterialized, polycentric, dense, organic, permeated and self-limiting but never closed-up”

Urban metabolism - functioning of a model city to that of eco-systems, characterised by an inward flow feeding the internal processes, and by an outward one, constituted by the sink of wastes and emissions into surrounding environment, thus closing the cycle of metabolism. While eco-systems are closed-circular systems, where a network of negative feedbacks leads to a substantial "homeostasis", urban systems are instead energetically and materially open systems.

Vectors of sustainability for Disonancias are:
Community, Energetic efficiency, Competitive advantage, Governance, Eco-construction, Quality of life, Eco-urban planning, Industrial symbiosis, Diversity, Territorial ecosystem, Bioclimatic architecture, Regional innovation, Industrialization, ITC, Integration, Paradigm, Technology, Heritage, Reuse, Research, Urban marketing, Urban metabolism…