Daring Cities: Orlando

Energy and sustainability, Julia Scott, No Density, Podcast, Urban Paradigms

Affordable Housing, Architecture&nature, Cities, Citizen interaction, City DNA, City evolution, City life, Climate change, COVID-19, Daring Cities, Economic downturn, Food production, Future cities, Greenery, Health crisis, Homeless, Industrial context, Job opportunities, Leisure, Low Energy Development, Orlando, Pedestrian realm, podcast, Prototype city, Resilient cities, Shaping environments, skyline, Solar Energy, Stormwater Management, Sustainability, Tourism, Urban farming, Urban policies, USA, Waste generation, Water infrastructure, Watery Territory, Zero-waste

In this episode, we visit Orlando, USA. This central Florida city is not just the home of Walt Disney World. It’s also a leader in and a model for sustainability. We hear from Chris Castro, Director of Orlando’s Office of Sustainability & Resilience, about how the “City Beautiful” has turned its neighborhoods into ‘agri-hoods’ and pioneered floating solar arrays on its many pocket lakes.