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This chapter is framed within an urban context dominated by the overexploitation of resources and urban growth, where the fundamental principles of urban thinking have been forgotten and economic forces have taken control. It describes the need to retrain urban thinking in order to attain sustainable urban growth. To do this, we analyzed circular economy (CE) with respect to the social issue, its own definition and meaning, sustainability, and its association with the urban environment. Next, we conducted a descriptive mapping to connect references of different scopes in order to redefine, around CE, the fundamentals of a new paradigm for sustainable urbanism. Finally, this chapter shows CE as a useful category for the processes of urban planning and as a change of paradigm for sustainable urbanism. In this way, an intervention framework with three interconnected dimensions is shaped, with the aim of confirming CE as a theory capable of redefining the city. |
