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Circle Economy and ICLEI have partnered up to initiate the go to knowledge hub of case studies about the circular economy in cities. The Cities Collection is a repository of case studies that demonstrate the role of cities in the circular transition, and includes policies, business cases and research articles. Cases in the Collection flow into an ecosystem of digital products which support users in transitioning cities to circularity, for example [Ganbatte](https://ganbatte.world/cities/) and <a href="https://circulars.iclei.org/" target="_blank">ICLEI Circulars</a>, both part of the <a href="https://circulars.iclei.org/circle-lab-for-cities/" target = _blank">Circle Lab for Cities Programme.</a>




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Circular Cities

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Policy case

Impacts on the social fabric of the community and well-being of the individuals and families.

Social Impact

Impacts on the financial condition of a company, as well as the the economicconditions of its stakeholders and on economic systems at local, national, andglobal levels.

Economic Impact

Impact on the quantity or quality of jobs, and shifts in the labour market

Jobs

Impact on the health and happiness of human populations

Well-being

Direct and indirect effects that increase revenues or the potential for new revenues, for example from new products, customer segments, partnerships or business models

Revenue Potential

Providing specialist services to support consumers, businesses, andgovernments

Professional Services

Producing building materials and providing services to create residential and non-residential infrastructure and real estate


Construction and Infrastructure

Account for the systems perspective during the design process, to use the right materials, to design for appropriate lifetime and to design for extended future use

Design for the future

Designing products that are made to last and to ensure longer use

Design for durability

Designing products to remove any barriers to recycling and enable easy recyclability

Design for recycling

'Manage' influences the use and function of physical and material elements within the urban environment. 

Manage

 Spatial Planning

Redesign systems to lay the foundation for circular activities and enable the transition to a circular economy 

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Rethink

Facilitate cross-collaboration by engaging city departments, industries and businesses on ambitious, closed-loop circular projects.

Support closed-loop systems and cross-sectoral synergies

The built environment, including housing, commercial buildings, and the necessary infrastructure for mobility, is essential for our livelihoods, but:
- the extraction of minerals used to produce construction materials is responsible for a quarter of global land use change,
- approximately 40% of global GHG emissions can be attributed to buildings’ construction, use and demolition, and
- construction and demolition processes drive nearly one-third of all material consumption. 

Making the built environment more circular must prioritise a heavy reduction in material use—while also closing the loop on materials and bringing secondary and renewable material choices to the fore. Our four key solutions for the built environment are:
- Make the most of what already exists: Make the most of existing materials by reusing, repurposing, upgrading and renovating following circular approaches. Where new builds are needed, use secondary materials and be as efficient as possible with urban planning solutions that follow circular design principles so that buildings can be reused, repurposed, and easily disassembled in the future.
- Be as energy efficient as possible: From the design phase, utilise circular strategies to create material- and energy efficient buildings. Couple these designs with a rollout of clean energy solutions, and prioritise energy-efficient appliances and retrofitting. 
- Utilise secondary materials: Maximise the high-value reuse of buildings and components where possible. Ideally, enable the utilisation of construction and demolition outputs and ensure that as much of it as possible is recycled to avoid the need for virgin materials, such as sand and gravel.
- Prioritise circular materials and approaches: Transition to using renewable wood, timber or cross-laminated timber instead of steel and concrete, or move to other locally available materials. Utilise mainstream modular construction and prioritise lightweight frames and structures to reduce cement and steel use, as well as green roofs where possible.



🏢 Built Environment

Businesses

Communities

Impacts

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Industries

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A framework of policy instruments that enabled and encourage the transition to the circular economy

Policies

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A framework of policy instruments that enable and stimulate the transition to the circular economy

The principles of a circular economy concern designing out waste, regenerating ecosystems and keeping items in use. Decoupling the economy from material flows—improving the rate of resource productivity faster than the economic growth rate—is also a consistent guide. By evolving with the growing number of applications of circular economy principles, and consolidating these strategies across thematic areas, Circle Economy’s Key Elements Framework (KE) renders the elements of the circular economy salient and serves as a basis to derive contextual strategies and interventions. 


The Framework consists of:
- Core Elements: Activities directly handling product or material flows; and uniquely,
- Enabling Elements: those that remove obstacles for core actors.


Key elements of the circular economy

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Circle Economy's framework of strategies and activities that define the circular economy

The Circular City Actions Framework provides urban changemakers with five complementary strategies they can use to start working towards a more circular system. 

The framework is action-based to provide users with concrete strategic directions and showcase the desired outcomes of each strategy. 
The framework consists of five complementary **strategies**, under which **sub-strategies** provide further detail. Finally, each sub-strategy consists of a diversity of tangible **solutions** which are framed in relation to key thematic areas. 

Note: solutions are currently focused on:
- 🍏 **Food systems**
- 🏢  **Built environment**
- 👕📱  **Consumer goods**
- ⚡ **Energy Systems**
- 🚌 **Mobility Systems**
- 💧 **Water Systems**

More thematic areas are coming soon...

'Click through each of the five strategy cards below to explore the framework and circular economy case studies in more depth!'



This framework was developed in collaboration with ICLEI, Metabolic and Ellen MacArthur Foundation with support from the MAVA Foundation. Read more about it [here]( https://circulars.iclei.org/action-framework/). 



Circular City Actions Framework

An action-based framework for local governments working towards circular cities

Thematic Areas

City Stakeholders

Barking and Dagenham is at the heart of London’s accelerating growth.As the capital expands ever eastwards, the borough is increasingly the focus of attention for developers and investors, attracted by the most affordable and accessible opportunities in the whole of the Southeast region.The scale of the transformation is huge.More than 400 hectares of land is available for development and we have ambitious plans to provide more than 50,000 top quality new homes and 20,000 new jobs within the next 20 years, concentrated in seven growth hubs.These hubs have become a magnet for businesses in sectors ranging from the creative arts to bio-sciences, and from high-tech and green industries to award-winning construction and manufacturing.Well-established brands and start-up enterprises alike are attracted by the proud history, great value and excellent transport networks which link them to major markets in London, the Southeast and Europe.The council has a clear vision and an ambitious strategy, focused on developing and harnessing the talent of its young, entrepreneurial and increasingly skilled population.Our specialised regeneration team can offer advice and support about the emerging opportunities in London’s growth borough.London’s growth opportunityOur growth prospectusLondon's Growth Opportunity 2016 (PDF, 2.24 MB)Barking Town Centre is changing fast with a record number of cranes building thousands of new homes.A new Barking Town Centre Strategy (2020-2030) was adopted by Cabinet in October 2020 setting out a clear vision and how it will be delivered unlocking Barking’s full potential.Visit the BeFirst website to find out more, read the strategy and post your ideas for improving Barking town centre.
 Why move to Berlin when you can move to Barking?See what local artists think:Artist Enterprise ZoneBarking is rapidly becoming one of hottest spots for London’s burgeoning creative sector.Clustered around the town centre and the Ice House Quarter on the River Roding, artists, makers and designers are increasingly drawn by the expanding facilities and attractive rates.Over the next three years we aim to support these growing industries by providing innovative affordable workspace and living accommodation with enhanced facilities and improved support networks.Working with an array of impressive partners and backed to the tune of £250,000 by the Mayor of London, our proposal for the capital’s first Artist Enterprise Zone will retain artists in London and provide new outlets and opportunities for their talents.It will help to bolster London’s creative sector and unlock Barking’s potential.In April 2016, the IceHouse Court studios opened for business, providing 4400 sq ft of much needed affordable workspace for around 20 individual creative practices.It is the latest hub in an area that already boasts a range of inspiring arts venues and commissions, including:the stunning new Abbey Leisure Centre with dance studiosthe Broadway Theatre and School for Performing Artsthe Galleon Centre – a gallery, performance space, music studio and more, hosting Studio3 Arts’ productions plus a selection of received worksCreative Barking and Dagenham – a six year Arts Council funded festivals and activity commission, andcoming soon, a new three screen cinemaWorking with our partners – who have an excellent track record of getting good things done – we’ll ensure the Artist Enterprise Zone provides support for creative industries to grow and prosper.Find out moreOur strategy documents have detailed information about future development:Barking Town Centre Strategy Barking Artist Enterprise Zone brochure (PDF, 1.61 MB)Barking Artist Enterprise Zone (PDF, 779.83 KB)Barking Riverside is one of the UK’s largest regeneration sites, delivering a staggering 10,800 new homes.This is equivalent to the town of Windsor.Set in natural landscaped grounds along two kilometres of Thames riverside.From 2020, a new London Overground train line will connect the anticipated 29,000 residents with London’s rail and tube services giving a huge boost to the development of the area and excellent links to central London.More than 600 homes have already been built alongside:a new community hubschoolsplaces of worshipcommunity, retail and sports facilitiesStrong environmental principles and mixed styles are evident, catering to every lifestyle:smart apartments with river viewsfamily-sized properties close to open spaceshousing for older people a short walk away from community facilities and servicesSuccessive phases have earned critical approval including recognition at the prestigious Housing Design Awards in 2010 and 2013.The latest phase includes an ‘all-through’ nursery to sixth-form school campus which will be complete by September 2017.The Barking Riverside Community Interest Company is a public-private partnership with representatives from the local community.It manages the public space and ensures the estate is maintained to the highest possible standards.Barking Riverside will also feature 65,500 square metres of commercial, retail and sports and leisure facilities which will create around 6,000 new jobs.More informationHealthy New TownsBarking Riverside websiteCastle Green will be an entirely new neighbourhood built on top of the A13 – London’s vital eastern link to the M25 motorway.The plan is to build a tunnel for a 1.3km stretch of the A13 between the Lodge Avenue and Goresbrook interchanges.This tunnel would act as a catalyst for regeneration, releasing land for 5,000 homes and creating space for parks and high quality industrial and commercial uses including a new London Overground station.Local industrial land could be rezoned to pave the way for the mixed use development.It is estimated that the plan could create a net additional Gross Value Added of £800 million over 60 years.By eliminating bottlenecks at the Lodge Avenue and Renwick Road junctions, the plan would ease congestion and reduce noise and pollution while also reducing journey times for the users of the busy road.It would join up communities divided by the road and new bus routes, walkways and cycle paths are all planned to improve north-south travel across the A13.The tunnel will have considerable benefits to the capital and the Thames Gateway region and the proposal enjoys widespread support from business and political figures across east London.A blueprint for this ambitious project, which has been costed and developed with Transport for London, is now being actively considered by central government, whose support is required before the scheme can go ahead.We expect to hear the outcome in spring 2016.The A13 Riverside Tunnel prospectusA13 Riverside Tunnel - Road to Regeneration Booklet (PDF, 1.38 MB)The London Sustainable Industries Park in Dagenham Dock is at the heart of an exciting new public-private venture spanning the boroughs of Newham, Barking and Dagenham, and HaveringBacked by the three local authorities, the Mayor of London and SEGRO plc have formed a partnership known as East Plus to regenerate 86 acres of industrial land in the largest deal of its kind between the public sector and a private land developer in the capital.East Plus has the potential to create up to 6,500 new jobs in east London.The sites can support approximately 1.4 million sq ft of new logistics and light industrial space, and are suitable for occupiers ranging from blue-chip companies to start-up firms including green industries.The London Sustainable Industries Park will be the UK’s largest concentration of environmental industries and recent investment in new roads, green infrastructure and over 800 trees mean that it is ready for business now.It’s already home to a number of unique companies including London’s first anaerobic digestion and composting plant.Specialised research facilities close by will support the growth of these green businesses.SEGRO expects to develop their east London portfolio land over 10 years, investing about £180 million and has appointed Knight Frank, Glenny and Lambert Smith Hampton as the agents.Further informationEast Plus website How can we improve this page? 

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London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

<p>London Sustainable Industries Park is an initiative at the heart of London’s accelerating growth, located at Barking and Dagenham, UK. More than 400 hectares of land is available for development and the municipality has ambitious plans to provide more than 50,000 top quality new homes and 20,000 new jobs within the next 20 years, by creating 7 growth hubs. These hubs have become a magnet for businesses in sectors ranging from the creative arts to bio-sciences, and from high-tech and green industries to award-winning construction and manufacturing.</p>