Circular Economy Concepts: A Smart Solution for Communities in European Towns

Marušić, Damjan and Goličnik Marušić, Barbara (2025) Circular Economy Concepts: A Smart Solution for Communities in European Towns. URBAN INNOVATION: TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO CITIES HAVE GONE BEFORE. Medium sized cities and towns as a major arena of global urbanisation. Proceedings of REAL CORP 2025, 30th Intl. Conference on Urban Development, Regional Planning and Information Society. pp. 201-210. ISSN 2521-3938

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Abstract

The paper debates the concept of circular economy in cities through introduction of circular communities composed by materials providers, developers, producers, services, distributors and consumers which all must adopt a holistic and collaborative approach. Therefore, circular development necessitates the socio-ecological transformation of our urban systems. It requires that wasted resources are looped, the ecological regenerative capacity and adaptive capacity of urban systems developed. Therefore, spatial planning potentially has a crucial role to play in the delivery of circular development. The challenge is to integrate a circularity-based approaches into spatial planning practice, and vice versa, and to go beyond the search for temporary solutions, which in spatial terms means temporary spaces for circular experimentation, and to lay the foundations for circular spatial planning thinking and action.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	spatial planning, circular communities, circular thinking, circular development, circular economy
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Depositing User:	REAL CORP Administrator
Date Deposited:	20 May 2025 09:26
Last Modified:	20 May 2025 09:26
URI:	http://repository.corp.at/id/eprint/1193

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