E9 Results
Europan 9 Results
Sustainable city and new public spaces
To mark the ninth round of the competitions, EUROPAN is publishing a catalogue of the projects nominated in the 73 European cities of 22 different countries.
From Europan 8 session, a generic theme now runs through the ses¬sions: “European urbanity and strategic projects”. For the ninth session particular emphasis was placed on the issue of “the sustainable city and the new public spaces”. Urbanity can be defined as a common way of expe¬riencing the city and its functions, and also as a conception of urban space that encourages the coming together of people in places they have in common: public space. But where does public space begin and end? Can neighbourhood and prox¬imity spaces be considered as belonging to the public domain? Can we term public space the new collective spaces of common interest, such as shopping centres, stations and airports? Thinking out urbanity-bearing projects that lead to the question of the status of public space implies placing this question within the context of sustainable urban development that is to say spatial transformation that takes account of the environment and integrates it “sustainably” into the mutation process.
Edition Europan, July 2008
360 colour pages, CD-rom - Size 22x30cm
Edited in four languages: English, French, German, Italian
On-line price 65 € [Clic here]
Special price for the participants to Europan 9 and 10: €45
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