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Workshop "Vital Public Spaces"
24 February 2015
Geneva, Switzerland
10 am - Palais des Nations, Room VIII
Sustainable cities and human settlements, including public spaces, is one of the focus areas in the post-2015 development agenda.
The workshop will discuss measures that governments, cities and stakeholders in the UNECE region undertake to promote access to safe, inclusive and accessible green and public spaces. A special focus of this workshop is on the planning, design, and management of public spaces.
The workshop is organized jointly by the UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management; Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; and UN-Habitat, with the support of Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation as part of the Ax:son Johnson Foundation project “Future of Places”.
The workshop will have simultaneous interpretation in English, French and Russian.
Presentations:
| Title | ENG |
|---|---|
Public Space and Sustainable Urban Development | |
| Future of Places Kyle Farrell, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden | |
| Charter of Public Space/Biennial of Public Space Pietro Garau and Alice Siragusa, Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica (INU), Italy | |
| Public spaces, resilience and urban prosperity: an evolutionary approach to urban development Sergio Porta, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK | |
| Mapping Green Spaces with EU GHSL Matina Halkia, Joint Research Center, the European Commission | |
| The Role of Public Space in Compact Cities: Policy Implication to Fast-Growing Cities Tadashi Matsumoto, OECD | |
| Places in the Making: How placemaking builds places and communities Susan Silberberg, Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, USA | |
| Public Space in the City of Geneva Sandra Piriz, Department of Urban Planning and Mobility, City of Geneva, Switzerland | |
| Green Open Space in the Historic Built Environment Jurjen van der Tas, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| People-oriented City Planning Jan Gehl, Architect, Founding Partner and Principal Gehl Architects, Denmark |
For more information, please contact:
Gulnara Roll, Head
UNECE Housing and Land Management Unit
Email: Gulnara.Roll@unece.org
Telephone: +41 22 917 22 57
and
Dr. Tigran Hass, Director of PhD Program
Urban and Regional Studies
KTM - Royal Institute of Technology
Email: Tigran.Hass@abe.kth.se
Telephone: +46 87 908 504