As part of the GCHU’s Summer School blog series, Vanja Pandurevic’s explores a proposal to transform Venice’s Tronchetto island into an ecologically sustainable “Communal Backyard,” integrating green spaces, urban agriculture, and cultural hubs to enhance community wellbeing, preserve Venetian heritage, and position the city as a global leader in sustainable urbanism.
Working Across Boundaries: Findings in Applying a Multidisciplinary Integrated Strategy Towards a Sustainable Tronchetto, and Venice
As part of the GCHU’s Summer School blog series, Jessica Zhang writes about her collaboration on a multidisciplinary design project to revitalize the Tronchetto area by integrating green and blue infrastructure, fostering community engagement, and addressing social and environmental challenges.
Tronchetto Reimagined: A blueprint for sustainable practices in Venice
As part of the GCHU’s Summer School blog series, Roxana Sala describes her participation in the workshop where she developed a proposal for revitalizing Venice’s Tronchetto island, focusing on water management, community-led design, and food resilience through a rain garden prototype, community gardens, and sustainable urban strategies.
Tronchetto: The Point of Attraction
As part of the GCHU’s Summer School blog series, Sofia Ryabinina and Beyza Ayaz propose transforming Venice’s Tronchetto Island into a vibrant cultural and educational hub, addressing sustainability challenges by creating student accommodation, art spaces, and green infrastructure to foster community engagement and cultural vitality.
The role of city leadership in delivering climate action – local and global collaboration
GCHU Visiting Fellow Dr. Katherine Maxwell’s new blog post discusses the key insights from her book, Governance Networks for Sustainable Cities, focusing on the role of city leadership in sustainability decision-making.
Beware the buzzword: how can community engagement actually improve housing?
GCHU Intern and BA Chinese Studies student Rebecca Gardner investigates how the UK’s housing crisis, extending beyond supply shortages to encompass monocultural estates and the pitfalls of community engagement, necessitates a nuanced approach, proposing Regional Building Hubs as a potential solution to empower communities, foster collaboration with small-medium sized builders, and address the multifaceted challenges inhibiting effective participation in housing planning.
Towards the regionalisation of Community Land Trusts (CLTs)
GCHU Intern and MSc Global Governance and Diplomacy student Helena Catalán Busquets investigates the benefits of the Community Land Trust model to address housing problems in the UK.
Regional building material hubs: embedding viable circularity in the construction sector in the UK
GCHU Intern and DPhil Sustainable Urban Development candidate Yaseen Raad discusses the UK construction industry’s waste challenge, advocating for circular economy principles and the establishment of circularity hubs to promote resource exchange and awareness for sustainable urban development.
Environmental Stewardship and Housing in the UK
GCHU Intern and Master of Public Policy (MPP) student Cynthia Wamukota explores the interplay between environmental stewardship and housing needs in the United Kingdom.
Environmental impacts of Regional Building Hubs: a long-term scope
GCHU Intern and BA Geography student Erika Nakata Moussis explores the long-term environmental impact of the Regional Building Hub concept.