Marjan Rafiei: Regenerative Sustainability of the Urban Industry Zones in New Zealand

In recent decades, the sustainability approach has provided valuable improvements to the built environment. Nonetheless, experts agree that the current sustainability paradigm, rooted in a mechanistic worldview, is not enough to address the rapid pace, expansive scale, and urgency of global climate emergencies, suggesting its efficacy has reached a limit. In response to this urgent need, the concept of regenerative design and development has recently emerged as a promising alternative in the built environment, seeking to reconnect human efforts with nature in a cooperative and co-evolutionary relationship to enhance the adaptive capacity of the built environment and add value to the whole living system. This relatively new concept in the built environment remains largely theoretical, with limited implementation studies.