Planning the Urban Transition

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My contribution to the 7th European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Town, Geneva 17 April 2013. Slides do not say much, they are mostly evocative. Unfortunately Slideshare does not have a soundtrack. ;-)

Transcript of Planning the Urban Transition

Wednesday 17 April 2013

Session A5 – Planning the Urban Transition

Emilio D'AlessioArchitect, Town Planner, former President of Agende 21 Locali Italiane

URBAN AGENDA

Cities have to build on their own past to prepare the future. The specific attractiveness of a given city has to be seen in the context of a forward-looking scenario as an element of broader urban transition.

Make sure that the heritage and architectural value of historic buildings and public spaces is exploited together with the developmemnt and improvement of the urban scene, landscape and place, and where local residents identify themselves with the urban environment.

URBAN TRANSITION

REGENERATION

In Europe historical building are 10% of

building stock

In Europe 1/3 of buildings are traditional

(built before 1945)

Social housing accounts to 12% of the EU27 total housing stock

90% of social housingconsists of buildings in need of refurbishment

RESILIENCY

emilio@dalessio.eu