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 discussed 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 was on the planning, design, and management of public spaces.
The workshop was 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 had simultaneous interpretation in English, French and Russian.
Presentations:
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Public Space and Sustainable Urban Development |
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| Future of Places Kyle Farrell, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
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| Charter of Public Space/Biennial of Public Space Pietro Garau and Alice Siragusa, Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica (INU), Italy |
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| Public spaces, resilience and urban prosperity: an evolutionary approach to urban development Sergio Porta, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK |
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| Mapping Green Spaces with EU GHSL Matina Halkia, Joint Research Center, the European Commission |
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| The Role of Public Space in Compact Cities: Policy Implication to Fast-Growing Cities Tadashi Matsumoto, OECD |
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| Places in the Making: How placemaking builds places and communities Susan Silberberg, Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, USA |
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| Public Space in the City of Geneva Sandra Piriz, Department of Urban Planning and Mobility, City of Geneva, Switzerland |
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| Green Open Space in the Historic Built Environment Jurjen van der Tas, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Geneva, Switzerland |
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| People-oriented City Planning Jan Gehl, Architect, Founding Partner and Principal Gehl Architects, Denmark |