2.3 Circular Cities
2.3.5 Increased awareness, new ownership concept-sharing economy,
A circular economy gives more awareness, concepts of ownership and these will produce new business opportunities. Seen this way, the sharing economy completely changes the context of how we own things. We are only just beginning to see the full impact of this change. I believe that in the coming years, products and services specifically created will emerge to help consumers evaluate their purchases based on their monetization potential[7].
The sharing economy is controversially one of the biggest changes that digital innovation has unleashed in the last 10 years. It transformed industries, changed the way we live and work, and spawned companies that skyrocketed to incredible wealth in a surprisingly short span of time. But the truth is, the changes go even deeper than that. The sharing economy isn’t just about disrupting industries or creating new business arrangements. The technology driving the sharing economy is actually fueling a change in something much more fundamental: the concept of ownership[25].
To take an example, Airbnb is another classic example of how sharing economy technology has opened up a new channel to monetize any asset. Even home buyers
or apartment tenants can now turn an empty bedroom into a source of income, making any property potential investment property.
Another example is Uber. To understand the nature of this change, let’s take a look at the billions of poster children of the sharing economy revolution. It transformed transportation in city centers by drastically reducing the need to own a car. The platform empowers any vehicle owner to provide transportation services for other users, effectively enabling a single vehicle to meet the transportation needs of many people. Therefore, the share users tag is not actually a share, but a single car is shared to meet the needs of a large number of people. In the past, they were required to own a car or use public transport. Now they can borrow a stranger’s car[25].
The sharing economy has already disrupted major industries globally, but what we’ve seen so far is just the beginning. The real impact of the technology enabling the sharing economy goes beyond just sharing cars, homes or electrical appliances:
It’s a fundamental transformation of what it means to own something.
We are already seeing the emergence of new products and services designed to take advantage of this change, but as the market matures and consumers develop a deeper understanding, we can expect more. Whether it’s a car, an apartment, or even an idea, the sharing economy can turn anything into money, and there are opportunities for entrepreneurs who can develop creative, effective solutions to help make this monetization easier[25].
2.3.6 Multi-disciplinarity and collaboration
Planners, architects, and urban planners must be committed to rethinking not alone the operation of naturally resilient urban systems in the long term to ensure a better and lasting quality of life for current and future generations. Multi-discipline and different groups of work are relevant and make us share the knowledge that will generate new knowledge. In this way, we will design circular cities as the last element of the process that brings us to sustainable development[7].
Multi-disciplinarity means dealing with a particular problem or observable phe-nomenon from different disciplinary perspectives. This involves confronting different scientific approaches such as concepts, models, methods, findings in the hope that eventually the multidisciplinary research team will together manage to produce a coherent picture of the problem concerned, possible explanations of it, and potential and solutions. A multidisciplinary team’s greatest hope is that they can create a common, comprehensive definition of the problem, a descriptive view of the
mechanisms and processes involved, and a manageable set of problem solutions.
However, to the extent that the team is successful, they will find themselves in an interdisciplinary effort where relevant parts of different scientific disciplines are brought together and properly integrated. Thus, for example, a natural science model of the spread of air pollution can be combined with a behavioral model using motorized transport; or an economic model of consumer utility maximization can be combined with a psychological model of habit formation and social status-seeking.
This will broaden the scientific basis for effective policy-making[26].
Sustainability is a multidimensional concept that includes economic security, social welfare, and environmental quality. Key items on both research and policy agendas related to sustainability are the resource intensity of human production and con-sumption patterns, the assessment and management of natural resource stocks and flows, and societal transitions in various fields of human activity. Examples are energy supply and demand, agriculture and livestock production, availability and consumption of drinking water, mobility and transport, recreation, and tourism.
Environmental impacts associated with these areas of activity are urban air pol-lution, greenhouse gas emissions, environmental noise, soil drying, and natural degradation. These burdens contribute to a reduction in environmental quality and may include threats to human health and well-being[26].
Collaboration between the natural, social and environmental sciences is essen-tial to understand the complex nature of the problems, to experience how different contributions from different disciplines can be made, and to provide policymakers with a more complete understanding and a corresponding set of solutions. technical and behavioral, individual, and organizational tools to address and prevent policy issues in real-life practice.
On the other hand, it is often difficult to implement multi-discipline. Researchers from different backgrounds need to find and meet each other. They must learn to understand and appreciate each other’s perspectives. They need to derive a common motivation from the idea that the whole can be more than the sum of its parts. What should bind them together is to focus on a single problem area, such as energy use, environmental noise, or external security. But this draws them into a fair amount of practical problem-analytic homework before both they and their collective can make their scientific contribution and reap the extra benefits of collaboration that crosses disciplinary boundaries. The next section presents a number of practical experiences[26].
The difference between mono-parametric and multi-parametric evalua-tions
Mono-parametric valuations such as cost-benefit analysis are set solely on the market price and are unlikely to be able to adequately assess natural capital and its role in the economic, productive, social and environmental system. Evaluations are based on the market price. They will not be able to evaluate these transformations.
Because they cannot consider territorial and natural capitals adequately, they speak only the language of the market. Now economists are starting to speak the environmental language. Through dynamics, we can catch transformations and we can define indicators related to the new city[7].