Browsing by Author "Khanna, Abhishek"

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    Redesigning the Urban Water Cycle A Vision for Redgedale Mall 2030
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2012) Breton, Aaron; Kelkar, Gauri; Paine, Jessica; Tornow, Kyle; Bell, Tia; Musunuru, Sravanthi; Salmela, Kai; Stauduhar, Peter; Forouzandeh, Peyvand; Holmberg-Johnson, Thea; Khanna, Abhishek; Thomas, Angela; Dougherty, Brendan; Lemon, Julian; Roys Salkas, Kristen; Treml, Paul; Andrejasich, Jessica; Kubota, Niko; Montgomery, Andrew
    This project was completed as part of the 2012-2013 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of Minnetonka. The City of Minnetonka was looking for innovative design solution to address stormwater management issues at the site of the Ridgedale Mall. Minnetonka project lead Jo Colleran collaborated with five groups of graduate-level architecture students in ARCH 8567: Building and Site Integration in Sustainable Design, to develop solutions to accommodate 90% of all stormwater and other water use on the site through attractive, educational, and interactive designs. The final report is available.
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    Transcending from Sustainable Communities and Smart Cities to Regenerative Responsive Social Ecological Technological Communities and Cities
    (2021-09) Khanna, Abhishek
    This thesis examines the field of regenerative design and development with a purpose to 1) Explore key elements of Regenerative Design & Development: Social-Ecological-Technological 2) Explore the use of technologies like Big Data & GIS for Regenerative design & development. 3) Explore important aspects of the Future Cities: Responsive Cities, livability. 4) Develop and propose a synergistic Regenerative Responsive Social-Ecological-Technological ‘RRSET’ Framework for designing Regenerative Responsive Social-Ecological-Technological Communities & Cities ‘RRSETCC’. Biodiversity loss and climate change are major threats to life on our planet and regenerative design & development are the only realistic means to avoid catastrophe because they provide the solutions to fix the systems holistically, based on ecosystem working, the evolvable relationships & the feedback loops. Their strategies address the fundamental issues and extend beyond to support the growth of other systems. Regenerative design: A system of strategies that generates designs that regenerate socio-ecological whole. Regenerative development: A system of strategies that works to enhance the ability to co-evolve & thrive. Regenerative development provides framework to achieve Regenerative design goal to maximum extent. ‘Social’, ‘Ecological’ and ‘Technological’ elements are key for Regenerative Design and Development. With enormous development and technological advancements in the field of computer science and information technology, the world is connected more seamlessly not only with humans but also with digital world. Several digital tools are available to analyze various aspects of design and development ranging from buildings material to building attributes and even building systems. However, it is important to think beyond building and analyze these from systemic point of view with due consideration towards social-ecological approach which leading towards true Regenerative Development. Huge amount of data points from various devices like mobile phones, cameras, sensors, social media are available and can now be synthesized and analyzed to form valuable feedback which must be looped into our planning, design and development for creating Regenerative Communities and Cities. This presents the opportunity to explores the possibilities of using Big Data based tools in supporting regenerative design and development using frameworks for assessment of projects. ‘Responsive cities are livable cities’ which can be designed using ‘Tech’; however, to achieve this goal we need framework for their design. This thesis develops and proposes a synergistic Regenerative Responsive Social-Ecological-Technological ‘RRSET’ framework for designing Regenerative Responsive Social-Ecological-Technological Communities & Cities ‘RRSETCC’. In addition, this thesis introduces new and unique assessment methodology and metrics developed to assess RRSET elements and eventually communities and cities. Keywords: Sustainability; Regenerative Design & Development; Regenerative Urban Planning; Regenerative Communities & Cities; Responsive Cities; Livable Cities; Ecosystem Services; Big Data for Regenerative Design & Development; Urban Informatics; Urban Analytics; Regenerative Responsive Social Ecological Technological Framework ‘RRSET’; RRSET Communities & Cities ‘RRSETCC’.