Circular models for the city's complexity

The project CLIC - Circular models Leveraging Investments in Cultural Heritage adaptive re-use, funded within the European FP Horizon 2020 and led by the CNR IRISS, aims at using evaluation tools to develop and test innovative circular financing, business and governance models for adaptive reuse of cultural heritage and landscape. This paper investigates "circular models" to be adapted to the city in order to connect the complexity of the city with its several dimensions (social, human, cultural, political and entrepreneurial) - an issue still open to the international debate. Authors will study this topic through the analysis of literature review and practices regarding green economy, industrial ecology, industrial eco-systems, industrial symbiosis, industrial eco-park, eco-efficiency, cradle-to-cradle design, biomimicry and closed loops; examples of cities declared "circular" by EUROCITIES; and examples of cultural cities (Kea, Unesco Creative Cities, European Capitals Of Culture).