European conference on urban innovations

Eurofound — European Foundation For The Improvement Of Living And Working Conditions

Description

Seville, 6-8 October 1993
Environment policy and protection of the environment

Sujets

• Architecture
• Innovation
• Urban planning
• Urban area
• Sciences et techniques

Informations

• Publié par: EUROFOUND-EUROPEAN-FOUNDATION-FOR-THE-IMPROVEMENT-OF-LIVING-AND-WORKING-CONDITIO
• Nombre de lectures: 20
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
ON URBAN INNOVATIONS
Seville, 6-8 October 1993
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+ European Foundation
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• for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions *
*•* EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
ON URBAN INNOVATIONS
Seville, 6-8 October 1993
EF/94/11/EN EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
ON URBAN INNOVATIONS
Seville, 6-8 October 1993
* * * European Foundation
+ E~-i + for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
• L~ '• Loughlinstown House, Shankill, Co. Dublin, Ireland
* * * Tel: [phone] Telex: 30726 EURF El Fax: + 353 1 282 6456 Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1994
ISBN 92-826-7958-6
© European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, 1994
For rights of translation or reproduction, applications should be made to the Director, European
Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Loughlinstown House, Shankill, Co
Dublin, Ireland.
Printed in Ireland TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE Vii
LEARNING FROM THE SEVILLE CONFERENCE
by Voula Mega, Research Manager 1
ON THE PROCESS OF CHANGING THE CITY.
BACKGROUND PAPER
by Yannos Politis,
Aarhus School of Architecture 25
THE RELATIONSHIP OF ARCHITECTURE
AND URBAN DESIGN
by Léon Krier : 3
URBAN INNOVATION: SOME VIEWS
by Athanassios Aravantinos,
National Technical University of Athens 45
CURRENT AND FUTURE MEANINGS OF THE
EUROPEAN CITY
by René Schoonbrodt, ARAU, Brussels 77
URBAN INNOVATIONS IN NORDIC COUNTRIES
by Kerstin Bohm, NORDPLAN, Stockholm 99
URBAN INNOVATIONS IN JAPAN
by Sylvie Guichard-Anguis, CNRS, Paris 113
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE SEVILLE CONFERENCE
by Eric Luiten, European Network of Young Planners 13VI
STATEMENT FOR THE SEVILLE CONFERENCE
by K. Leonhardt, Environment and Human
Settlements Division, United Nations Economic
Commission for Europe 137
THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE AND URBAN POLICIES
by Richard Hartley, Deputy Executive Secretary
of the Standing Conference of Local and Regional
Authorities of Europe, Council of Europe 145
ANNEXES 153
Programme7
List of Participants 165 VII
PREFACE
The Foundation initiated in early 1993 a project on 'Innovations for the Improvement of the
Urban Environment'. The objectives of the project are: to highlight innovative visions,
practices and actions which will help achieve urban sustainability; to pull together
information on exemplary approaches containing elements of innovative policy; and to help
mobilize the social partners and others to achieve the sustainable city of the twenty-first
century.
The first phase of the project included an overview of innovative projects conducive to urban
sustainability. A European network of young planners has been created to identify the
projects in all Member States of the European Union. Seventy-five innovative projects have
been selected and described. They have been included in the publication 'Innovations for the
Improvement of the Urban Environment: A European Overview' and were presented in a
European Conference on Urban Innovations, organized by the Foundation in Seville, 6-8
October 1993. The conference marked the end of the first phase and nourished the following
analytical phase. Another of the Foundation's projects had an important input into the
conference. The project on 'The Electronic Home: Interactive communications of the
future', including two studies on 'The impact of the immotique and the domotique on urban
functions' helped inform discussion at the conference.
Sadly, a few months after the Seville conference, our general rapporteur, Professor Yannos
Politis, passed away. He had been one of its most enthusiastic participants: the report on the
Seville conference was the last piece he was working on. His general report will be much
missed from the publication devoted to the Seville conference.
The present publication includes additional key papers presented at the conference written
after the conference, together with messages and lessons from the conference.
Clive Purkiss Eric Verborgh
Director Deputy Director