BIODIVER[C]ITY: Sustainable System Plan for Tallinn

Energy and sustainability, Essay, Harrison Atelier, Middle Density, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms.

Biodiversity, Circular economy, City development, Climate change, Collective housing, Economy, Estonia, Green roof, Rooftop, Sustainable, Tallinn, Urban food accessibility, Vertical forest.

Can Lasnamae, the most populous administrative district of the city of Tallinn, prototype housing blocks with circular water, waste and energy systems that not only support the city’s cultural diversity but also cultivate planetary biodiversity? In addition to providing sustainable sources of water, energy and food, the circular systems that graft onto housing blocks become the infrastructure for an economy based on the production of biodiversity in managed urban spaces. The human-centric city paradoxically becomes a wellspring for multi-species biodiversity.