Definitions of Circularity Analysis article by Carlos Arroyo (ES) — Architect, urbanist, linguist, teacher in Madrid’s Universidad Europea. He is the founder and director of Carlos Arroyo Arquitectos www.carlosarroyo.net
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The declared purpose of this text is to explore, describe
Exploring the strategies, not only do we encounter
and categorize the different strategies and tactics
differences in scope, but we also find ourselves
proposed in this Europan session to introduce the
collecting a range of definitions of circular economy
principles of circular economy in productive cities.
as implied or stated by the winning teams in this set.
The sites in this category share an aspiration to
Some proposals focus on natural cycles, and work
incorporate a multiplicity of uses and resources that
on the circularity of water, fertile soil, wind or energy.
may create synergies in a network of interactions, to
They may study, for instance, a general cycle of water,
substitute an existing linear or monofunctional approach
visualizing how evaporation of sea water produces
that is deemed to be obsolete.
rainclouds that water our fields before returning to the
While there are differences between them, all sites
river, and then working on the site to ensure that there is
are relatively large and can convene a complex set of
a balance between the use of the water for local activity
agents, human and non-human, that relate in networks
and the contribution of the site to the general flow of
that range from the far-reaching cycles of ecology
the cycle of water in the territory —we have called this
in the territory to more local short-term cycles. As a
approach “Biosphere Circularity”.
consequence, the proposals differ widely in scope and
Another set of proposals look at the industries of
focus, and in order to establish comparisons it seems
production and manufacture in order to find synergies
necessary to gage the scales of ambition in relation to
between different actors that may increase the efficiency
our disciplines.
of resource management. They may look into, for
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