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RESILIENT Cochabamaba in 2020
Cochabamba - Bolivia, April 2020.
Here is the “resiliense map” of my city, reflecting 10 years of efforts by Development Managers, Businesses AND CITIZENS as part of the Socially-responsible City Planning Programme:
The guide of Urban Resilience Planning for Dummies By Warren Karlenzig resulted of much use. Our community just had to get organized and see which one of the following list of actions is a priority and also how the city was going to tackle those objectives:
1 Planning:
2 Mobility:
The town council is improving the pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, this will take longer that expected as the road traffic culture of the population is
very “primitive”.
The creation of higher-density neighbourhoods has been possible –and fairly easy-, due to the fact that the most knotty urban spots were basically
hovels made of discarded materials from commerce and construction. In such areas, construction was carried out employing transparent photovoltaic polymer which produces 58% of the energy consumed by every edifice. In the tropics, there is no winter season; therefore, buildings of cities such as Cochabamba, Sao Paulo, or Lima do not consume energy for calefaction at all.
4 Economy:
Globalisation has influenced on the preserving and packing strategies of the Bolivian industry as well as on the consumption habits of the public.
One of the most important endeavours overtaken by the municipality was the construction of a Water Treatment Plant for sewage and industrial waste.
7 Management:
The city council has spent great deal of founds on transportation, road infrastructure, gardens and parks. This expenditure is considered as an investment instead of an expense.
Here is the “resiliense map” of my city, reflecting 10 years of efforts by Development Managers, Businesses AND CITIZENS as part of the Socially-responsible City Planning Programme:
The guide of Urban Resilience Planning for Dummies By Warren Karlenzig resulted of much use. Our community just had to get organized and see which one of the following list of actions is a priority and also how the city was going to tackle those objectives:
1 Planning:
The highest priority for the city of Cochabamba has been maintaining a reforestation strategy of the northeaster mountain. The wh*** landmark became a barren landscape since the decade of 1970’s, after some irresponsible authorities turned the beautiful scenery into a eucalyptus desert; you all know that soil gets eroded when eucalyptus plantations are not responsibly managed. Slash and burn is the WORST agricultural strategy.
Reforestation of the mountain with native trees has been the hardest task, but the effort was worthwhile; we managed to turn the city activities to the long lost natural environment offered by the forest.2 Mobility:
The municipality has worked hard to develop an efficient (eco-friendly) public transport system which is so well-connected that ultimately has allowed us to settle a Park & Ride facility.
3 Built Environment:The town council is improving the pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, this will take longer that expected as the road traffic culture of the population is
very “primitive”.
The creation of higher-density neighbourhoods has been possible –and fairly easy-, due to the fact that the most knotty urban spots were basically
hovels made of discarded materials from commerce and construction. In such areas, construction was carried out employing transparent photovoltaic polymer which produces 58% of the energy consumed by every edifice. In the tropics, there is no winter season; therefore, buildings of cities such as Cochabamba, Sao Paulo, or Lima do not consume energy for calefaction at all.
The construction of energy inefficient suburban neighbourhoods was banned as soon as the Council came acquainted of the negative impact of these sprawls.
4 Economy:
Organic product marketplaces have been created on several points, near the sources where the fresh fruit and vegetables are grown.
Cochabamba’s CT&C is also in charge of running the Network of Acquaintances for Material Flow. This network consists on a database which doc**ents existing and emerging commercial
activities. This database is used to facilitate the transference of discarded material which would be suitable to be incorporated in the production process of another business.
It is easy and cheap to grow assorted vegetables in Cochabamba, the weather is excellent all year round. This geographic place was the most important granary back on the times of the Inca Empire. Several droughts caused by erosion and deforestation in the modern era have endangered the productivity of this blessed agricultural land.
Cochabamba has been optimising the use of water since the water wars back in 2000. Since then, the population became very sensitised on this respect.
Waste management policies had to be put in place. Back in the 1980’s the city did not produce big amounts of non-biodegradable domestic waste.Globalisation has influenced on the preserving and packing strategies of the Bolivian industry as well as on the consumption habits of the public.
Luckily, one of the traditional customs of the Bolivian average woman is to systematically gather and store jars and tins to re-use them for other purposes instead of disposing of them.
Now that droughts are over, thanks to the positive effect of reforestation the normal water cycle was successfully re-established: Trees produce rain. which on the heights fall down as snow, snow patches gradually melt and this guarantees water for all year round.One of the most important endeavours overtaken by the municipality was the construction of a Water Treatment Plant for sewage and industrial waste.
7 Management:
The city council has spent great deal of founds on transportation, road infrastructure, gardens and parks. This expenditure is considered as an investment instead of an expense.
Cochabamba’s CT&C has also invested considerable amounts of money to create and maintain a sustainable commercial environment for small and big businesses.
A really clever decision was entrust the tasks of supervision, promotion and other time-consuming activities of every project on a cluster of retired people who volunteered for the job.
The citizens have also organised themselves, by means of the City Council Assembly, regarding the imposition of fines and sanctions to be applied in order to control and guarantee compliance of “Cochabamba’s Integrated System of Sustainable Development”.Finally, an "Independent Agency for Information and Technological Support" was created 3 years ago, with sponsorship from the Inter-American Development Bank. The AITS is focussed on providing advise and logistic & technical
support for any activity related to:
- Energy efficient (saving strategies and technology)
- Green chemistry (implementation and innovation)
- Recycling strategies
- Use again initiatives
- Water Management
- Environmental remediation (soil, wellsprings, wildlife habitats, etc.)
- Fair trade and Compassionate economy
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Comment by paras on May 8, 2010 at 4:09pm
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awesome! appreciate your spirit of sharing knowledge..in which country is your city?
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Comment by Ternura Rojas on May 8, 2010 at 4:16pm
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Comment by Paul Holze on May 9, 2010 at 9:39pm
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Wow, very nice and well thought out
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Thank you!
I moved to Cochabamba when I was around 12. I have been thinking through all these details ever since then (more than 20 years); now I can put a name which gives sense to my bold plan: RESILIENCE!! yeap!
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