In Circular Communities, pioneering, collectively supported initiatives are central, aimed at closing resource flows at neighbourhood or district level and thus contributing to the transition to a circular economy.

For the analysis of these different initiatives, the researchers - urban planner Els Leclercq and architect Mo Smit - developed a unique method: the Circular Value Flower method. This method helps to organise the joint closing of resource flows (materials, energy, water, biota, nutrients) on a neighbourhood scale and provides insight into the added value (economic, ecological, social, cultural, aesthetic) that can be realised within the built environment.

Circular Communities thus offers inspiration and lessons for integral sustainable interventions at the scale of the neighbourhood and ties in with the new Environmental Planning Act (2022), which explicitly offers space for citizen initiatives and local commissioning.

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Circular Communities: The Circular Value Flower as a Design Method for Collectively Closing Resource Flows is niet langer leverbaar.

Inmiddels is een nieuwe, uitgebreide editie verschenen: Circular Communities: Learning from Global Practices Using the Circular Value Flower

Deze nieuwe editie bouwt voort op de oorspronkelijke publicatie en werkt de Circular Value Flower-methode verder uit aan de hand van internationale praktijkvoorbeelden. De publicatie laat zien hoe gemeenschappen, ontwerpers en beleidsmakers gezamenlijk kunnen werken aan circulaire initiatieven en meervoudige waardecreatie op lokaal niveau.

In Circular Communities, pioneering, collectively supported initiatives are central, aimed at closing resource flows at neighbourhood or district level and thus contributing to the transition to a circular economy.

For the analysis of these different initiatives, the researchers - urban planner Els Leclercq and architect Mo Smit - developed a unique method: the Circular Value Flower method. This method helps to organise the joint closing of resource flows (materials, energy, water, biota, nutrients) on a neighbourhood scale and provides insight into the added value (economic, ecological, social, cultural, aesthetic) that can be realised within the built environment.

Circular Communities thus offers inspiration and lessons for integral sustainable interventions at the scale of the neighbourhood and ties in with the new Environmental Planning Act (2022), which explicitly offers space for citizen initiatives and local commissioning.